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No, you're quite right.
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Well, would you be so kind as to
introduce me to the poems themselves?
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I'm not sure.
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I won't be rude about them.
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What will you do?
Stay silent or tell lies?
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I shall choose
when I've heard one.
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All right. I have won a national
poetry award shared with Robert Frost.
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I'm impressed.
:24:29
Well, let's hope you stay that way.
Let's get this out of the way.
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I'll give you an early one.
That way I'm covered.
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I wrote this when I was 22.
Spanish Civil War.
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It's called "Snow in Madrid."
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"Softly, so casual.
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Lovely, so light, so light.
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The cruel sky lets fall something
one does not fight.
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Men, while perishing..."
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Sorry.
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"Men, before perishing
see with unwounded eye for once...
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a gentle thing
fall from the sky."
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- Oh, embarrassed, huh?
- No, I'm touched.
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- Touched.
- Yes.
:25:17
Touched... that's good.
That's about its level.
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So you may ask when was I ever
in Madrid. The answer is never.
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- Personal experience isn't everything.
- I disagree.
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I think personal experience
is everything.
:25:31
So reading is a waste of time?
:25:35
No, it's not a waste of time,
but reading is safe, isn't it?
:25:39
Books aren't about to hurt you.
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- Why should one want to be hurt?
- That's when we learn.
:25:46
Just because something hurts doesn't
make it more true or significant.
:25:52
No, I guess not.
:25:54
I'm not saying that pain is...
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purposeless or even neutral,
but to find meaning in pain...