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Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media book Club book Club book Club book Club.

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Speaker 1: Hello and welcome to Coolson Media book Club, the only

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Speaker 1: book club where I do the reading for you. I'm

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Speaker 1: your host, Margaret Kiljoy. And this week I'm really excited

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Speaker 1: about this week. I probably say that most weeks I'm

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Speaker 1: pretty excited about most weeks. I kind of love my job.

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Speaker 1: So today's story is by one of my all time

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Speaker 1: favorite people, Oscar Wilde. He's one of the most misquoted

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Speaker 1: and misremembered people in history. Oscar Wilde was an Irish

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Speaker 1: anarchist who lived at the end of the nineteenth century

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Speaker 1: and became for a while the most famous Irish Man

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Speaker 1: in England. He's remembered for being clever and various quips

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Speaker 1: like telling border guards I have nothing to declare but

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Speaker 1: my genius, or for how on his deathbed he kept

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Speaker 1: telling visitors me and that wallpaper, or in a fight

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Speaker 1: to the death. He's remembered as this basically a political

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Speaker 1: clever fellow, not just as a dandy, but as the dandie.

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Speaker 1: I remember him differently after all that I've read about him.

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Speaker 1: I did a two parter on cool people who did

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Speaker 1: cool stuff about him recently. Check it. Out if you

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Speaker 1: haven't already. Oscar Wilde was a flamboyant queer icon who

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Speaker 1: beat up his bullies and talked openly and intelligently about anarchism,

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Speaker 1: including paying the bail for an anarchist and writing this essay,

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Speaker 1: The Soul of Man under Socialism, which became one of

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Speaker 1: the most widely read tracts about socialism, and it was

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Speaker 1: about anti authoritarian socialism. Because he was cool, he was

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Speaker 1: persecuted relentlessly for his sexuality, and eventually the state essentially

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Speaker 1: hounded him to death. After a spectacular show trial, he

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Speaker 1: was convicted to hard labor for his sexual interest in men,

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Speaker 1: which broke his health and led him to an early grave.

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Speaker 1: It's how I learned that a treadmill was originally called

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Speaker 1: that because prisoners would walk on it to mill things

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Speaker 1: like he had to do. He wrote introspectively about his

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Speaker 1: time in prison, about how suffering is as much a

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Speaker 1: part of life as the joy and reckless abandoned that

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Speaker 1: he'd also sought out in his life. On his deathbed,

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Speaker 1: with his longtime lover and sometimes partner at his side,

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Speaker 1: he converted to Catholicism. He was also yes woody as hell,

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Speaker 1: so queer Irish Catholic anarchist Oscar Wilde. I see you.

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Speaker 1: This week's story is the title story of a book

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Speaker 1: he published in eighteen eighty eight, at the peak of

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Speaker 1: his career and as he was just discovering his politics.

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Speaker 1: The book is called The Happy Prince and Other Stories,

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Speaker 1: and the story is called The Happy Prince. You probably

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Speaker 1: figured that out because it's in the title of the

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Speaker 1: episode you downloaded, and also because I told you it

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Speaker 1: was the title story of a book called The Happy Prince.

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Speaker 1: I hope you enjoy this story as much as I do.

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Speaker 1: Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde eighteen eighty eight. High above

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Speaker 1: the city, on a tall column stood the statue of

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Speaker 1: the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin

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Speaker 1: and a large red ruby glowed on his sword hilt.

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Speaker 1: He was very much admired. Indeed, he is as beautiful

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Speaker 1: as a weathercock, remarked one of the town counselors, who

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Speaker 1: not quite so useful, he added, fearing lest people should

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Speaker 1: think him unpractical, which he really was. Not. Why can't

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Speaker 1: you be like the happy prince, asked a sensible mother

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Speaker 1: of her little boy, who was crying for the moon.

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Speaker 1: The happy prince never dreams of crying for anything. I

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Speaker 1: the wonderful statue. He looks just like an angel, said

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Speaker 1: How do you know, said the mathematical master. You have

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Speaker 1: One night, there flew over the city a little swallow.

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Speaker 1: His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before,

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Speaker 1: but he had stayed behind, for he was in love

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Speaker 1: with most beautiful Reed. He had met her early in

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Speaker 1: Shall I love you? Said the swallow, who liked to

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Speaker 1: It is a ridiculous attachment, twittered the other swallows. She

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Speaker 1: he said finally to her. But the reeds shook her head.

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Speaker 1: Good bye, And he flew away. All day long he flew,

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Speaker 1: and at night time he arrived at the city. Where

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Speaker 1: shall I put up, he said, I hope the town

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Speaker 1: has made preparations. Then he saw the statue on the

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Speaker 1: tall column. I will put up there, he cried. It

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Speaker 1: is a fine position with plenty of fresh air. So

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Speaker 1: he alighted just between the feet of the happy prince.

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Speaker 1: I have a golden bedroom, he said softly to himself

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Speaker 1: But just as he was putting his head under his wing,

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Speaker 1: a large drop of water fell on him. What a

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Speaker 1: curious thing, he cried. There is not a single cloud

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Speaker 1: the rain, but that was merely her selfishness. Then another

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Speaker 1: drop fell. What is the use of a statue if

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Speaker 1: it cannot keep the rain off? He said, I must

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Speaker 1: look for a good chimney pot, and he determined to

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Speaker 1: fly away. But before he had opened his wings, a

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Speaker 1: third drop fell, and he looked up and saw, Ah,

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Speaker 1: what did he see? I'll tell you what he saw,

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Speaker 1: but only after you listen to ads like a captive audience,

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Speaker 1: or press the forward fifteen seconds button. As many times

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Speaker 1: as you want, until you hear the bumper music, and

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Speaker 1: then I'll start again, and we're back. The eyes of

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Speaker 1: the Happy Prince were filled with tears, and tears were

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Speaker 1: in the moonlight that the little swallow was filled with pity.

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Speaker 1: Who are you? He said, I am the happy Prince.

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Speaker 1: Why are you weeping? Then asked the swallow, You've quite

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Speaker 1: drenched me. When I was alive and had a human heart,

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Speaker 1: answered the statue, I did not know what tears were,

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Speaker 1: for I lived in the Palace of San Souci, where

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Speaker 1: sorrow is not allowed to enter. In the daytime, I

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Speaker 1: evening I led the dance in the great hall. Round

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Speaker 1: the garden ran a very lofty wall, but I never

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Speaker 1: cared to ask what lay beyond it. Everything around me

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Speaker 1: and happy indeed I was, if pleasure be happiness. So

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Speaker 1: of lead. I cannot choose, but weep. What is he

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Speaker 1: not solid gold? Said the swallow to himself. He was

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Speaker 1: too polite to make any personal remarks out loud. Far away,

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Speaker 1: continued the statue in a low musical voice. Far away,

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Speaker 1: a woman seated at a table. Her face is thin

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Speaker 1: embroidering passion flowers on a satin gown for the loveliest

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Speaker 1: nothing to give him but river water, so he is crying. Swallow, swallow,

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Speaker 1: little swallow, will you not bring her the ruby out

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Speaker 1: said the swallow. My friends are flying up and down

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Speaker 1: the nile and talking to the large lotus flowers. Soon

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Speaker 1: Great King. The king is there himself in his painted coffin.

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Speaker 1: He is wrapped in yellow linen and embalmed with spices.

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Speaker 1: Round his neck is a chain of pale green jade,

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Speaker 1: and his hands are like withered leaves. Swallow, Swallow, little swallow,

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Speaker 1: said the prince, will you not stay with me for

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Speaker 1: answered the swallow. Last summer, when I was staying on

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Speaker 1: Of course, we swallows fly far too well for that,

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Speaker 1: and besides, I come of a family famous for its agility.

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Speaker 1: But still it was a mark of disrespect. But the

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Speaker 1: It is very cold here, he said, but I will

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Speaker 1: Thank you, little swallow, said the prince. So the swallow

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Speaker 1: flew away with it in his beak. Over the roofs

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Speaker 1: the white marble angels were sculptured. He passed by the

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Speaker 1: came out on the balcony with her lover. How wonderful

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Speaker 1: the stars are, he said to her, And how wonderful

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Speaker 1: is the power of love. I hope my dress will

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Speaker 1: be ready in time for the state ball. She answered,

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Speaker 1: I have ordered passion flowers to be embroidered on it,

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Speaker 1: but this seems stresses are so lazy. He passed over

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Speaker 1: money in copper scales. At last he came to the

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Speaker 1: poorhouse and looked in. The boy was tossing feverishly on

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Speaker 1: his bed, and the mother had fallen asleep, she was

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Speaker 1: so tired. In he hopped and laid the great ruby

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Speaker 1: gently round the bed, fanning the boy's forehead with his wings.

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Speaker 1: How cool I feel, said the boy. It must be

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Speaker 1: getting better, and he sank into a delicious slumber. Then

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Speaker 1: the swallow flew back to the happy Prince and told

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Speaker 1: But I feel quite warm now, although it is so cold.

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Speaker 1: That is because you have done a good action, said

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Speaker 1: the prince. And the little swallow began to think, and

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Speaker 1: then he fell asleep. Thinking always made him sleepy. When

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Speaker 1: a bath. What a remarkable phenomenon, said the professor of

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Speaker 1: ornithology as he was passing over the bridge. A swallow

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Speaker 1: in winter, and he wrote a long letter about him

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Speaker 1: Those different at different times and places. But I've read

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Speaker 1: and so it seems like all of the other swallows

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Speaker 1: happening in this story. Oscar Wilde was a dandy and

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Speaker 1: he you know, kind of didn't care about anything, and

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Speaker 1: he was you know, he was Irish. He was a

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Speaker 1: good background and not doing particularly badly right, and he

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Speaker 1: was part of high society in London. And so here's

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Speaker 1: of that. The thing that matters is to turn my

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Speaker 1: attention to oppression and start trying, through whatever means, to

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Speaker 1: start dealing with that. And that's what he did. The

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Speaker 1: most quotable man in history. But one of the quotes

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Speaker 1: that people don't say as often is I'm going to

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Speaker 1: get it wrong, but misquoting Oscar Wild's like part of

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Speaker 1: the fun. But people ask what is the best government

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Speaker 1: no government at all. The other thing let's talk about

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Speaker 1: more in the episode about him, but I just like

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Speaker 1: really want to reiterate. You know, yes, there is a

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Speaker 1: moral lesson to this story, right, and it's like not

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Speaker 1: surprising that this man ended up both an anarchist and

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Speaker 1: Catholic after reading this story. But his whole thing was

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Speaker 1: that art should not be in service of the revolution,

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Speaker 1: the story is like in service of the revolution in

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Speaker 1: as much as like a moral tale, right, But it's

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Speaker 1: like the playwright can't write because he's fucking starving, and

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Speaker 1: so he is aware of the fact that he gets

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Speaker 1: to write is a privilege and He's like, how do

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Speaker 1: we share the wealth so that these other people have

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Speaker 1: be the playwrights attractive. This doesn't necessarily bother him that

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Speaker 1: The match girl is a common and shitty job that

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Speaker 1: poor children, especially girls had during this era, to stand

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Speaker 1: on the street and sell matches to people, let alone

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Speaker 1: the horrors of the people who made the matches. But

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Speaker 1: that's a story for a different time. Probably not next week.

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Speaker 1: Oh maybe I'll find some story about a match girl

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Speaker 1: who I actually know the story about a match girl.

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Speaker 1: Maybe I'll do that. I'm not sure you'll find out

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