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How was dinner?
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Terrible.
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- Awful.
- What? What happened?
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Tonight...
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I met the most beautiful girl
I have ever seen in my entire life.
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- Are you crazy? What's wrong with that?
- She's practically engaged.
:19:24
To Chet Danburry.
:19:27
- The guy could eat a football.
- Too bad.
:19:30
Too bad? It's worse than too bad, Pitts.
It's a tragedy.
:19:34
A girl this beautiful
in love with such a jerk?
:19:36
All the good ones go for jerks.
You know that.
:19:39
Yeah, forget her. Open your trig book
and try and figure out problem five.
:19:42
I can't just forget her, Cameron.
And I certainly can't think about trig!
:19:46
We got it!
:19:49
All right, gentlemen, five minutes.
Let's go.
:19:54
- Did you see her naked?
- Very funny, Dalton.
:19:57
That wouldn't be a, uh, radio
in your lap, would it, Mr Pitts?
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No, sir.
A science experiment.
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Radar.
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Gentlemen, open your texts
to page 2 1 of the introduction.
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Mr Perry, will you read the opening
paragraph of the preface...
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entitled "Understanding Poetry"?
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"Understanding Poetry
by Dr J. Evans Pritchard, PhD.
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To fully understand poetry,
we must first be fluent...
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with its metre, rhyme
and figures of speech.
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Then ask two questions:
One, how artfully has the objective
of the poem been rendered?
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And two, how important
is that objective?
:20:39
Question one rates
the poem's perfection.
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Question two rates its importance.
:20:44
And once these questions
have been answered...
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determining the poem's greatness
becomes a relatively simple matter.
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If the poem's score for perfection is
plotted on the horizontal of a graph...
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and its importance
is plotted on the vertical...
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then calculating
the total area of the poem...