:05:03
with a tube in every orifice:
:05:06
"How are you feeling today?"
:05:08
I'm waiting for the moment when
I'm asked this question and I'm dead.
:05:13
I'm a little sorry I'll miss that.
:05:20
I have cancer.
:05:22
Insidious cancer,
with pernicious side effects.
:05:25
No, the treatment
has pernicious side effects.
:05:32
I have stage four
metastatic ovarian cancer.
:05:37
There is no stage five.
:05:41
And I have to be very tough.
:05:45
It appears to be a matter,
as the saying goes...
:05:48
of life and death.
:05:51
I know all about life and death.
:05:54
I am, after all,
a professor of 17th century poetry...
:05:59
specializing in
the Holy Sonnets of John Donne...
:06:03
which explore mortality
in greater depth...
:06:06
than any body of work
in the English language.
:06:08
And I know for a fact that I am tough.
:06:11
A demanding professor.
:06:13
Uncompromising.
:06:15
Never one to turn from a challenge.
:06:18
That is why I chose to study John Donne...
:06:22
while a student
of the great E.M. Ashford.
:06:29
Oh, yes.
:06:33
Your essay on Holy Sonnet VI...
:06:36
is a melodrama with a veneer
of scholarship unworthy of you...
:06:39
to say nothing of Donne. Do it again.
:06:43
Begin with the text, Miss Bearing,
not with a feeling.
:06:47
"Death be not proud
:06:49
"Though some have called thee
mighty and dreadful, for
:06:53
"Thou art not so"
:06:55
You've missed the point of the poem...
:06:57
because you've used
an edition of the text...