WEBVTT - Berenice 0:00:00.320 --> 0:00:02.880 Brought to you by the Reinvented twenty twelve Camri. 0:00:03.200 --> 0:00:03.800 It's ready. 0:00:04.000 --> 0:00:09.160 Are you welcome to Stuff you Should Know? From HowStuffWorks 0:00:09.200 --> 0:00:23.479 dot Com? 0:00:23.520 --> 0:00:30.080 Hello, and welcome to the podcast. I'm Josh Cook. There's 0:00:30.200 --> 0:00:36.440 Charles W. Chucker's brand that makes this stuff. 0:00:36.040 --> 0:00:36.720 You should know. 0:00:37.640 --> 0:00:39.600 I wonder what that sounds like to people who listen 0:00:39.640 --> 0:00:41.040 to it at double speed. 0:00:41.960 --> 0:00:43.320 You sound like your normal boys. 0:00:43.159 --> 0:00:46.040 Right, yeah, you know that. That was my impression of somebody. 0:00:46.200 --> 0:00:49.720 I'm gonna guess go with Vincent Price. No, okay, Edgar Oliver. 0:00:50.400 --> 0:00:54.280 It was a great Edgar Oliver. Terrible Vincent Price. Edgar Oliver. 0:00:54.360 --> 0:00:57.600 He's a storyteller on the moth. Oh really yeah, and 0:00:57.680 --> 0:01:00.640 he sounds exactly like that. You got to check stuff out. 0:01:00.760 --> 0:01:01.360 He's awesome. 0:01:02.000 --> 0:01:03.160 Is he a horror? Is he like? 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:03.440 No? 0:01:03.720 --> 0:01:04.479 Any wrong with him? 0:01:05.200 --> 0:01:07.720 Well? Yeah, I mean he talks like that. But other 0:01:07.760 --> 0:01:12.200 than he's he's an awesome dude. So that was my Oh, 0:01:13.360 --> 0:01:15.479 it's pretty good. You go back and listen now you'll 0:01:15.520 --> 0:01:18.160 be like, wow. So I was doing an Edgar Oliver 0:01:18.400 --> 0:01:23.560 chuck because in t minus like four days. Yeah, it's 0:01:23.560 --> 0:01:26.680 gonna be Halloween, one of our favorite days. And mind 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:30.520 blowingly enough. If you're listening to this on Halloween it's today. 0:01:30.920 --> 0:01:31.320 Wow. 0:01:31.520 --> 0:01:35.520 Yeah, yeah, that works. And last year we did something unusual, 0:01:36.120 --> 0:01:38.040 so this year we're doing it again, which makes it 0:01:38.080 --> 0:01:41.160 the usual. But it was popular. People liked it. We 0:01:41.520 --> 0:01:43.200 read a great short story last year. 0:01:43.280 --> 0:01:45.760 Yeah, people actually called for it again and said, oh, 0:01:45.800 --> 0:01:46.760 you're gonna do it this year. 0:01:46.840 --> 0:01:48.520 I think some people might not have liked it, but 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:49.320 just skip it then. 0:01:49.400 --> 0:01:50.840 Yeah. We were like, does that mean we don't have 0:01:50.880 --> 0:01:53.800 to study? Okay, let's do that exactly. Yeah, there's one 0:01:53.840 --> 0:01:57.640 in the can that's guaranteed gonna be at least okay. Yes, 0:01:58.080 --> 0:02:05.360 So this year, Charles W. Chuck Bryant selected the story 0:02:05.480 --> 0:02:07.480 and it is by someone you may or may not 0:02:07.560 --> 0:02:11.320 have heard of. He's a somewhat you know, well known 0:02:11.400 --> 0:02:17.280 Writer's name is Edgar Allan Poe and he died in Baltimore, 0:02:17.360 --> 0:02:22.000 I believe, in the eighteen forties. Sure, here's one of 0:02:22.080 --> 0:02:25.680 the great first great American writers of the nineteenth century. 0:02:25.800 --> 0:02:28.720 Slash drug addicts, big time drug addict, and I think 0:02:28.760 --> 0:02:32.919 that comes through a lot in this. Yeah. But we've 0:02:32.960 --> 0:02:35.440 selected a short story. Chuck selected a short story. It's 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:36.240 actually I gave. 0:02:36.040 --> 0:02:37.760 You a selection. You made the final choice. 0:02:38.720 --> 0:02:42.079 Yeah, but you let me to You're like, which one 0:02:42.080 --> 0:02:44.000 of these would you like? And then you basically put 0:02:44.040 --> 0:02:44.880 this one in my hand. 0:02:44.919 --> 0:02:50.560 No, actually, I was leaning toward the crazy dwarf that 0:02:50.680 --> 0:02:51.320 kills the king. 0:02:51.639 --> 0:02:54.280 What are we reading this one for? Because this one's creepy? Okay, 0:02:54.320 --> 0:02:56.639 all right, I agreed. Well, do you want to tell 0:02:56.680 --> 0:02:57.840 them the name of this one? 0:02:58.080 --> 0:03:02.120 It's called Barnice and give you a slight setup just 0:03:02.120 --> 0:03:04.519 so you know what's going on. There's a woman called 0:03:04.560 --> 0:03:09.040 Baronice and a man, uh, and they are cousins and 0:03:09.040 --> 0:03:13.760 they're married, and things go a little weird in the story. 0:03:14.800 --> 0:03:16.320 Weirder than cousins being married. Yeah. 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:17.600 I don't want to give anything away, but I just 0:03:17.600 --> 0:03:20.079 want you know it's it's old English. It's not Old English, 0:03:20.080 --> 0:03:22.840 but it's older than it's Old American. 0:03:22.960 --> 0:03:28.880 Yeah. So before we lose any more listeners, let's get 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:30.919 to it. You want to cue the spooky music. 0:03:31.040 --> 0:03:32.760 Yeah, but we should also point out that at the 0:03:32.840 --> 0:03:34.960 end of this episode we have a very special guest. 0:03:35.080 --> 0:03:38.360 So let's not say who. If you listen on Tuesday, 0:03:38.280 --> 0:03:38.680 you know. 0:03:38.920 --> 0:03:41.160 But if you aren't into the reading, just go ahead 0:03:41.160 --> 0:03:43.600 and skip forward to the special guest, and you'll get 0:03:43.600 --> 0:03:44.440 some delight there. 0:03:44.800 --> 0:03:47.880 Right, And if you do that, we apologize in advance. 0:03:47.960 --> 0:03:50.680 Yes either way, all right, So now let's cue the 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:51.600 spooky music. 0:04:01.080 --> 0:04:03.040 Okay, that's the tone. 0:04:03.160 --> 0:04:06.400 Let's dim the lights, okay, and we now present to 0:04:06.440 --> 0:04:10.600 you Edgar Allan poe'se Bevernice. 0:04:16.920 --> 0:04:18.760 My Josh is a little quote at the beginning in. 0:04:18.760 --> 0:04:20.800 Latin and in English. 0:04:20.880 --> 0:04:23.960 I'll read the English. My companion said to me, if 0:04:24.000 --> 0:04:26.440 I would visit the grave of my friend, I might 0:04:26.600 --> 0:04:27.880 somewhat alleviate my. 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:30.680 Worries reasonable advice. 0:04:31.480 --> 0:04:32.080 And here we go. 0:04:32.720 --> 0:04:37.719 Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform, overreaching 0:04:37.760 --> 0:04:40.400 the wide horizon as the rainbow its hues, or as 0:04:40.440 --> 0:04:43.800 various as the hues of that arch, as distinct too, 0:04:43.920 --> 0:04:48.279 yet as intimately blended, overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow. 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.120 How is it that from beauty I have derived a 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:55.600 type of unloveliness, from the covenant of peace, a simile 0:04:55.640 --> 0:04:59.440 of sorrow. But as in ethics, evil is a consequence 0:04:59.440 --> 0:05:02.839 of good, So in fact, out of joy is sorrow born. 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.160 Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of today, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:11.520 or the agonies which have their origin, and the ecstasies 0:05:12.000 --> 0:05:14.440 which might have been nice. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:16.960 It sounded like improper English, but that's how we wrote it. 0:05:17.160 --> 0:05:20.240 And it's not just today, it's to day with a 0:05:20.320 --> 0:05:21.279 hyphen in between. 0:05:21.480 --> 0:05:25.240 My baptismal name is Eugaeus. That of my family I 0:05:25.279 --> 0:05:27.920 will not mention. Yet there are no towers in the 0:05:28.000 --> 0:05:31.400 land more time honored than my gloomy, gray hereditary halls. 0:05:32.040 --> 0:05:35.080 Our line has been called a race of visionaries, and 0:05:35.120 --> 0:05:38.720 in many striking particulars in the character of the family mansion, 0:05:39.200 --> 0:05:42.400 in the frescoes of the chief saloon, and the tapestries 0:05:42.440 --> 0:05:45.760 of the dormitories, and the chiseling of some buttress in 0:05:45.800 --> 0:05:49.360 the armory, but more especially in the gallery of antique paintings, 0:05:49.839 --> 0:05:53.800 and the fashion of the library chamber, and lastly in 0:05:53.839 --> 0:05:55.560 the very peculiar nature of. 0:05:55.520 --> 0:05:56.760 The library's contents. 0:05:57.360 --> 0:06:00.839 There is more than sufficient evidence to warrant the bloe. 0:06:00.920 --> 0:06:04.200 The recollections of my earliest years are connected with that chamber, 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:07.200 and with its volumes, of which latter I will say 0:06:07.240 --> 0:06:10.800 no more. Here died my mother here, and I was born. 0:06:11.160 --> 0:06:13.480 But it is mere idleness to say that I had 0:06:13.480 --> 0:06:16.719 not lived before that. The soul has no previous existence. 0:06:17.120 --> 0:06:20.599 You deny it. Let us not argue the matter, convince myself. 0:06:20.640 --> 0:06:23.760 I seek not to convince. There is, however, a remembrance 0:06:23.800 --> 0:06:28.280 of aerial forms, of spiritual and meaning, eyes of sounds, 0:06:28.360 --> 0:06:31.960 musical yet sad, A remembrance which will not be excluded, 0:06:32.360 --> 0:06:36.920 a memory like a shadow, vague, variable, indefinite, unsteady, and 0:06:37.040 --> 0:06:40.000 like a shadow too in the impossibility of my getting 0:06:40.080 --> 0:06:42.040 rid of it, while the sunlight of my reason shall 0:06:42.080 --> 0:06:46.720 exist in that chamber. I was born thus, awaking from 0:06:46.760 --> 0:06:49.840 the long night of what seemed but was not nonentity, 0:06:50.360 --> 0:06:53.800 at once into the very regions of fairyland, into a 0:06:53.839 --> 0:06:57.880 palace of imagination, into the wild dominions of monastic thought 0:06:57.920 --> 0:07:01.719 and erudition. Singular that I gazed around me with a 0:07:01.800 --> 0:07:05.240 startled and ardent eye, that I loitered away my boyhood 0:07:05.240 --> 0:07:08.280 and books, and dissipated my youth in reverie. But it 0:07:08.360 --> 0:07:11.160 is singular that as the years rolled away and the 0:07:11.240 --> 0:07:13.480 noon of manhood found me still in the mansion of 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:17.320 my fathers, it is wonderful what stagnation there fell upon 0:07:17.360 --> 0:07:20.560 the springs of my life. Wonderful how total an inversion 0:07:20.600 --> 0:07:23.800 took place in the character of my commonest thought. The 0:07:23.840 --> 0:07:26.480 realities of the world affected me as visions, and as 0:07:26.560 --> 0:07:29.360 visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.120 dreams became in turn, not the material of my everyday existence, 0:07:33.480 --> 0:07:37.280 but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself. 0:07:38.440 --> 0:07:40.520 See he's getting a little caught up in his own 0:07:41.240 --> 0:07:42.280 obsession of thoughts. 0:07:42.360 --> 0:07:44.840 Right, he's a bookworm. Okay, he's bookish. 0:07:45.080 --> 0:07:46.880 So the real world as it doesn't even matter to 0:07:46.960 --> 0:07:48.160 him at this point. 0:07:49.080 --> 0:07:50.440 That's what he thinks of the real world. 0:07:51.360 --> 0:07:54.840 Onward, Bearnice and I were cousins, and we grew up 0:07:54.840 --> 0:07:59.600 together in my paternal halls. Yet differently we grew I ill 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:03.800 of health and buried in gloom. She agile, graceful and 0:08:03.880 --> 0:08:07.920 overflowing with energy. Hers the ramble on the hillside, mine 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:11.680 the studies of the cloister. I living within my own heart, 0:08:12.000 --> 0:08:14.520 an addicted body and soul to the most intense and 0:08:14.560 --> 0:08:18.720 painful meditation. She roaming carelessly through life, with no thought 0:08:18.760 --> 0:08:22.000 of the shadows in her path or the silent flight 0:08:22.080 --> 0:08:26.480 of the raven winged owers. Berenice, I call upon her name, 0:08:26.720 --> 0:08:32.400 Berenice from the gray ruins of memory, A thousand tumultuous 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.640 recollections are startled at the sound. 0:08:35.160 --> 0:08:35.719 Ah. 0:08:36.160 --> 0:08:38.800 Vividly is her image before me now as in the 0:08:38.840 --> 0:08:42.800 early days of her light heartedness and joy, Oh gorgeous 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:48.360 yet fantastic beauty, Oh sylph amid the shrubberies of Arnheim, 0:08:49.160 --> 0:08:53.920 oh Naiad among its fountains. And then then all is 0:08:54.000 --> 0:08:58.160 mystery and terror, a tale which should not be told. Disease, 0:08:58.400 --> 0:09:00.560 a fatal disease, fell. 0:09:00.480 --> 0:09:02.120 Like the simoon upon her frame. 0:09:02.679 --> 0:09:05.120 And even while I gazed upon her, the spirit of 0:09:05.240 --> 0:09:09.640 change swept over her, pervading her mind, her habits, and 0:09:09.679 --> 0:09:12.800 her character, and in a manner the most subtle and terrible, 0:09:13.320 --> 0:09:17.559 disturbing even the identity of her person Alas the destroyer 0:09:17.600 --> 0:09:18.360 came and went. 0:09:18.520 --> 0:09:20.319 And the victim where was she? 0:09:20.559 --> 0:09:27.080 I knew her not, or knew her no longer as Berenice. 0:09:29.559 --> 0:09:30.440 Now she got sick. 0:09:30.840 --> 0:09:34.839 When I first read him saying Berenice Nice, I thought 0:09:34.840 --> 0:09:39.640 of Kramer going, Pam, Pam, you remember that one? 0:09:39.720 --> 0:09:42.400 Yeah, all right, Spernice didn't doing so hot all of 0:09:42.440 --> 0:09:43.120 a sudden. 0:09:43.000 --> 0:09:47.439 No, it happened like that. Ye. Among the numerous train 0:09:47.520 --> 0:09:51.000 of maladies superinduced by that fatal and primary one, which 0:09:51.080 --> 0:09:53.760 affected a revolution of so horrible a kind, and the 0:09:53.840 --> 0:09:57.120 moral and physical being of my cousin may be mentioned 0:09:57.160 --> 0:10:00.480 as the most distressing and obstinate in its nature, a 0:10:00.559 --> 0:10:05.240 species of epilepsy, not unfrequently terminating in trance itself, trance 0:10:05.360 --> 0:10:09.440 very nearly resembling positive dissolution, and from which her manner 0:10:09.440 --> 0:10:14.480 of recovery was in most instances startlingly abrupt. In the meantime, 0:10:14.559 --> 0:10:17.040 my own disease, for I have been told that I 0:10:17.040 --> 0:10:20.120 should call it by no other appellation. My own disease 0:10:20.200 --> 0:10:24.800 then grew rapidly upon me, and assumed finally a monomaniac 0:10:24.960 --> 0:10:29.040 character of a novel and extraordinary form, hourly and momently 0:10:29.080 --> 0:10:32.200 gaining vigor, and at length obtaining over me the most 0:10:32.240 --> 0:10:37.120 incomprehensible ascendency. This monomania, if I must so term it, 0:10:37.280 --> 0:10:40.760 consisted in a morbid irritability of those properties of the 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:44.839 mind in metaphysical science termed the attentive. It is more 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:48.199 than probable that I am not understood, But I fear 0:10:48.280 --> 0:10:51.520 indeed that it is in no matter possible to convey 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.440 to the mind of the merely general reader an adequate 0:10:54.520 --> 0:10:58.280 idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in 0:10:58.320 --> 0:11:01.920 my case, the powers of metaie not to speak, technically 0:11:02.320 --> 0:11:05.720 busied and buried themselves in the contemplation of even the 0:11:05.760 --> 0:11:07.960 most ordinary objects of the universe. 0:11:09.240 --> 0:11:14.040 So now he's becoming obsessive about just things, anything transfixed 0:11:14.040 --> 0:11:14.400 on things. 0:11:14.480 --> 0:11:17.760 But like he can't even get across how obsessed. 0:11:17.240 --> 0:11:22.800 He becomes monomania all right, to muse for long, unwearied hours, 0:11:22.840 --> 0:11:25.880 with my attention riveted to some frivolous device on the 0:11:25.920 --> 0:11:29.199 margin or in the topography of a book. To become 0:11:29.240 --> 0:11:31.480 absorbed for the better part of a summer's day, and 0:11:31.559 --> 0:11:35.480 a quaint shadow falling a slant upon the tapestry or 0:11:35.559 --> 0:11:38.440 upon the door, To lose myself for an entire night, 0:11:38.840 --> 0:11:41.560 and watching the steady flame of a lamp or the 0:11:41.559 --> 0:11:44.640 embers of a fire, to dream away whole days of 0:11:44.800 --> 0:11:49.320 the perfume of a flower. To repeat monotonously some common 0:11:49.360 --> 0:11:53.720 word until the sound, by dint of frequent repetition, ceased 0:11:53.760 --> 0:11:56.160 to convey any idea whatever to the mind. 0:11:57.480 --> 0:11:58.200 Everyone does that. 0:11:58.400 --> 0:12:01.080 Yeah, it's called day awesome. 0:12:01.760 --> 0:12:05.520 To lose all sense of motion or physical existence by 0:12:05.600 --> 0:12:10.280 means of absolute bodily quiescence, long and obstinately persevered in 0:12:10.960 --> 0:12:13.440 such were a few of the most common and least 0:12:13.480 --> 0:12:17.040 pernicious vagaries induced by a condition of the mental faculties, 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:22.480 not indeed altogether unparalleled, but certainly bidding defiance to anything 0:12:22.600 --> 0:12:24.040 like analysis or explanation. 0:12:24.920 --> 0:12:26.840 You did good. That was a tough one. Thanks. 0:12:26.920 --> 0:12:30.480 He sounds like an opium head, you know he's like. 0:12:30.600 --> 0:12:32.840 And by the way, I'm high as a kite right. 0:12:32.760 --> 0:12:34.920 Now, I'm staring at a lamp for two days. 0:12:36.200 --> 0:12:40.000 Yet let me not be misapprehended. This due earnest and 0:12:40.080 --> 0:12:43.240 morbid attention thus excited by objects in their own nature, 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.199 frivolous must not be confounded in character with that ruminating 0:12:47.240 --> 0:12:51.080 propensity common to all mankind, and more especially indulged him 0:12:51.120 --> 0:12:54.960 by persons of ardent imagination. It was not, even as 0:12:55.040 --> 0:12:58.800 might be at first supposed, an extreme condition or exaggeration 0:12:58.880 --> 0:13:03.480 of such propensity, but primarily and essentially distinct and different. 0:13:04.320 --> 0:13:07.480 In the one instance, the dreamer or enthusiast, being interested 0:13:07.520 --> 0:13:11.440 by an object, usually not frivolous, imperceptibly loses sight of 0:13:11.480 --> 0:13:15.240 this object in a wilderness of deductions and suggestions, issuing 0:13:15.320 --> 0:13:18.960 therefrom until at the conclusion of a day dream often 0:13:19.000 --> 0:13:24.840 replete with luxury, he finds the in sedimentum or first 0:13:24.880 --> 0:13:29.600 cause of his musings entirely vanished and forgotten. In my case, 0:13:29.880 --> 0:13:34.480 the primary object was invariably frivolous, although assuming through the 0:13:34.520 --> 0:13:38.880 medium of my distempered vision a refracted and unreal importance, 0:13:39.559 --> 0:13:43.280 few deductions, if any, were made, and those few perdinaciously 0:13:43.360 --> 0:13:46.720 returning in upon the original object as a center. The 0:13:46.800 --> 0:13:50.679 meditations were never pleasurable, and at the termination of the reverie, 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:53.200 the first cause, so far from being out of sight, 0:13:53.440 --> 0:13:57.360 had attained that supernaturally exaggerated interest which was the prevailing 0:13:57.400 --> 0:14:01.079 feature of the disease. In a word, the powers of mind, 0:14:01.160 --> 0:14:04.840 more particularly exercised, were with me, as I have said before, 0:14:05.000 --> 0:14:14.440 the attentive, and are with the daydreamer, the speculative anything thoughts, No, 0:14:14.600 --> 0:14:16.680 he's just going on to say it was really serious. 0:14:16.920 --> 0:14:19.760 Yeah, they'd like to really describe things back then. Yeah, okay, 0:14:20.760 --> 0:14:23.760 my books at this epoch, if they did not actually 0:14:23.800 --> 0:14:27.640 serve to irritate the disorder partook, it will be perceived 0:14:27.720 --> 0:14:32.240 largely in their imaginative and inconsequential nature of the characteristic 0:14:32.280 --> 0:14:33.800 qualities of the disorder itself. 0:14:34.320 --> 0:14:35.680 I will remember, among. 0:14:35.440 --> 0:14:40.080 Others, the triestas of the noble Italian Colius Secundus curio, 0:14:41.000 --> 0:14:47.320 the amplitudine biat de regni de Saint Austin's great work 0:14:47.360 --> 0:14:52.560 The City of God and Trillium decarne Christi, in which 0:14:52.560 --> 0:15:02.160 the paradoxical sentence mortus sde phileas credibo esquia s sepotus 0:15:02.640 --> 0:15:12.080 resurreic exit certum esquia impossibilest occupied my undivided time for 0:15:12.160 --> 0:15:15.880 many weeks of laborious and fruitless investigation. So he's getting 0:15:15.960 --> 0:15:18.400 hung up on these phrases from the books. 0:15:18.560 --> 0:15:21.080 Yeah, like I am the Latin. 0:15:21.640 --> 0:15:23.960 Thus it will appear that, shaken from its balance only 0:15:24.000 --> 0:15:27.440 by trivial things, my reason bore resemblance to that ocean 0:15:27.560 --> 0:15:32.440 crag spoken of by Ptolemy Hephistian, which, steadily resisting the 0:15:32.480 --> 0:15:36.320 attacks of human violence and the fiercer fury of the 0:15:36.360 --> 0:15:39.560 waters and the kinds, trembled only the touch of the 0:15:39.560 --> 0:15:45.200 flower called Asphodel. And although to a careless thinker it 0:15:45.320 --> 0:15:48.800 might appear a matter beyond doubt that the alteration produced 0:15:48.800 --> 0:15:51.840 by our unhappy malady and the moral condition of Berenice 0:15:52.360 --> 0:15:55.200 would afford me many objects for the exercise of that 0:15:55.280 --> 0:15:59.160 intense and abnormal meditation whose nature I have been at 0:15:59.480 --> 0:16:03.000 some trouble and explaining. Yet such was not in any 0:16:03.040 --> 0:16:06.640 degree the case in the lucid intervals of my infirmity. 0:16:07.680 --> 0:16:11.440 Her calamity indeed gave me pain, and taking deeply to 0:16:11.520 --> 0:16:14.400 the heart that total wreck of her fair and gentle life, 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:17.400 I did not fall to ponder frequently and bitterly upon 0:16:17.400 --> 0:16:21.880 the wonder working means by which so strange revolution had 0:16:21.920 --> 0:16:25.400 been so suddenly brought to pass. But these reflections partook 0:16:25.480 --> 0:16:29.040 not of the idiosyncrasy of my disease, and were such 0:16:29.080 --> 0:16:32.720 as would have occurred under similar circumstances to the ordinary 0:16:32.760 --> 0:16:36.360 mass of mankind, true to its own character. My disorder 0:16:36.440 --> 0:16:39.840 reveled in less important, but more startling changes wrought in 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:43.040 the physical frame of Baronice, and the singular and most 0:16:43.080 --> 0:16:47.200 appalling distortion of her personal identity during the brightest days 0:16:47.200 --> 0:16:50.360 of her unparalleled beauty. Most surely I had never loved her, 0:16:51.040 --> 0:16:53.520 and the strange anomaly of my existence. Feelings with me 0:16:53.920 --> 0:16:57.040 had never been of the heart, and my passions always 0:16:57.040 --> 0:16:59.920 were of the mind. Through the gray of the early morning, 0:17:00.360 --> 0:17:03.720 among the trellish shadows of the forest at noonday, and 0:17:03.800 --> 0:17:06.320 in the silence of my library at night, she had 0:17:06.359 --> 0:17:10.000 flitted by my eyes, and I had seen her not 0:17:10.080 --> 0:17:12.560 as a living and breathing Berenice, but as the baronice 0:17:12.560 --> 0:17:15.959 of a dream. Not as a being of the earth earthy, 0:17:16.680 --> 0:17:19.680 but as the abstraction of such a being, Not as 0:17:19.680 --> 0:17:21.959 a thing to admire but to analyze, Not as an 0:17:21.960 --> 0:17:24.560 object of love, but as the theme of the most 0:17:24.600 --> 0:17:31.480 obtruse although desultory speculation. And now now I shuddered in 0:17:31.520 --> 0:17:34.160 her presence, and grew pale at her approach, yet bitterly 0:17:34.320 --> 0:17:38.000 lamenting her fallen and desolate condition, I called to mind 0:17:38.000 --> 0:17:41.040 that she had loved me long, and in an evil moment, 0:17:41.240 --> 0:17:51.440 I spoke to her of marriage. I'm getting oddly Madonna 0:17:51.600 --> 0:17:54.400 esque here with my English. 0:17:54.480 --> 0:17:56.800 Yeah, does she speak strangely? Ah? 0:17:56.840 --> 0:17:57.840 You know, she married guy Richie. 0:17:57.880 --> 0:17:59.760 All of a sudden she started talking like a Madonna. 0:18:00.080 --> 0:18:01.879 Yeah, that's right, not like she was from Queen's or. 0:18:01.880 --> 0:18:03.720 Yeah, you're not supposed to do that. You got to 0:18:03.760 --> 0:18:07.359 remember who you are, you know, I agreed, and at 0:18:07.440 --> 0:18:10.360 length the period of our nuptials was approaching, when, upon 0:18:10.440 --> 0:18:12.960 an afternoon in the winter of the year, one of 0:18:13.000 --> 0:18:16.399 those unseasonably warm, calm and misty days, which are the 0:18:16.520 --> 0:18:20.239 nurse of the beautiful halcyon. I sat and sat as 0:18:20.320 --> 0:18:23.800 I thought, alone in the inner apartment of my library, 0:18:24.359 --> 0:18:27.159 but uplifting my eyes, I saw the baronice stood before me. 0:18:28.080 --> 0:18:31.320 Was it my own excited imagination, or the misty influence 0:18:31.359 --> 0:18:34.399 of the atmosphere, or the uncertain twilight of the chamber, 0:18:34.920 --> 0:18:37.720 or the gray draperies which fell around her figure that 0:18:37.920 --> 0:18:40.720 caused in it so vacillating an indistinct an outline. 0:18:41.080 --> 0:18:44.760 Or was it all the opium? And as he likes 0:18:44.800 --> 0:18:45.040 to have. 0:18:45.000 --> 0:18:48.480 A lot of different ideas to choose from, sure, I 0:18:48.520 --> 0:18:52.040 could not tell. She spoke no word, I not for 0:18:52.200 --> 0:18:55.360 worlds could I have uttered a syllable. An icy chill 0:18:55.440 --> 0:18:59.359 ran through my frame, A sense of insufferable anxiety oppressed me, 0:18:59.600 --> 0:19:04.240 assuming curiosity pervaded my soul, and sinking back upon the chair, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:07.639 I remained for some time, breathless and motionless, with my 0:19:07.720 --> 0:19:12.560 eyes riveted upon her person alas its emaciation was excessive, 0:19:12.960 --> 0:19:15.720 and not one vestige of the former being lurked in 0:19:15.800 --> 0:19:18.960 any single line of the contour. My burning glances at 0:19:19.040 --> 0:19:22.560 length fell upon the face, the forehead was high and 0:19:22.680 --> 0:19:26.440 very pale and singularly placid, and the once jetty hair 0:19:26.480 --> 0:19:29.960 fell partially over it and overshadowed the hollow temples with 0:19:30.040 --> 0:19:34.760 innumerable ringlets, now of vivivid yellow and jarring discordantly in 0:19:34.800 --> 0:19:38.639 their fantastic character. With the raining melancholy of the countenance, 0:19:39.400 --> 0:19:43.800 the eyes were lifeless and lustreless and seemingly pupilss and 0:19:43.880 --> 0:19:47.760 I shrank involuntarily from their glassy stare to the contemplation 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:51.480 of the thin and shrunken lips. They parted, and, in 0:19:51.520 --> 0:19:54.960 a smile of peculiar meaning, the teeth of the changed 0:19:54.960 --> 0:19:59.440 Berenics disclosed themselves slowly to my view, would to God 0:19:59.560 --> 0:20:02.480 that I never beheld them, or that having done so, 0:20:02.640 --> 0:20:07.600 I had died. Bear Nice is in bad shape here, 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:09.680 so's the guy. 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.040 The shutting of the door disturbed me, and looking up, 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:16.600 I found that my cousin had departed from the chamber, 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:19.679 but from the disordered chamber of my brain had not 0:20:20.040 --> 0:20:24.000 alas departed, and would not be driven away the white 0:20:24.080 --> 0:20:27.240 and ghastly spectrum of the teeth, not a speck on 0:20:27.280 --> 0:20:30.680 their surface, not a shade on their enamel, not an 0:20:30.760 --> 0:20:34.159 indenture in their edges, but what that period of her 0:20:34.200 --> 0:20:38.239 smile had sufficed a brand in upon my memory. I 0:20:38.240 --> 0:20:41.399 saw them now, even more unequivocally than I beheld them then. 0:20:41.760 --> 0:20:42.320 The teeth. 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.280 The teeth, They were here and there and everywhere, invisibly 0:20:47.320 --> 0:20:51.679 impalpably before me, long, narrow and excessively white, with the 0:20:51.720 --> 0:20:54.639 pale lips writhing about them, as in the very moment 0:20:54.680 --> 0:20:58.000 of their first terrible development. Then came the full fury 0:20:58.040 --> 0:21:01.399 of my monomania, as ruggled in vain against his strange 0:21:01.440 --> 0:21:05.680 and irresistible influence in the multiplied objects of the external world, 0:21:05.720 --> 0:21:07.639 I had no thoughts but for the teeth. 0:21:08.520 --> 0:21:12.240 For these I longed with a frenzied desire. All other 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:13.280 matters and all. 0:21:13.160 --> 0:21:17.960 Different interests became absorbed in their single contemplation. They, they alone, 0:21:18.000 --> 0:21:21.160 were present to the mental eye, and they, in their 0:21:21.200 --> 0:21:24.720 sole individuality, became the essence of my mental life. I 0:21:24.800 --> 0:21:28.199 held them in every light, I turned them into every attitude. 0:21:28.320 --> 0:21:33.040 I surveyed their characteristics. I dwelt upon their peculiarities. I 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:37.000 pondered upon their confirmation. I mused upon the alteration in 0:21:37.040 --> 0:21:40.280 their nature. I shuddered as I assigned to them an imagination, 0:21:40.760 --> 0:21:44.359 a sensitive and sentient power and even when unassisted by 0:21:44.359 --> 0:21:46.879 the lips, a capability of moral expression. 0:21:47.640 --> 0:21:48.639 Boy, he's a losing it. 0:21:50.200 --> 0:21:55.840 Of Madselle Salaer has been well said couetou cepa in 0:21:56.040 --> 0:22:02.640 chien decentient, and of Beernice, I'm more serious believed quit. 0:22:04.040 --> 0:22:09.600 Indien daisy ds. 0:22:10.920 --> 0:22:14.240 And I believe that translated to something like the ideas 0:22:14.600 --> 0:22:16.959 the ideas. All of his ideas were of the teeth, 0:22:17.240 --> 0:22:17.960 something like that. 0:22:18.160 --> 0:22:20.040 And he just had to say it in French, didn't he? 0:22:20.119 --> 0:22:23.680 Wellat this is this isn't that good? So I'm gonna 0:22:23.760 --> 0:22:25.119 make you I'm going to write in French. 0:22:25.280 --> 0:22:27.000 If I went to a French speaker in the office 0:22:27.040 --> 0:22:29.640 and they're like, dude, this is really like hard to translate. 0:22:29.720 --> 0:22:32.120 So if anyone knows that, please send it. 0:22:32.560 --> 0:22:36.160 Do you want to read it again? That part the line. 0:22:36.040 --> 0:22:46.520 Sure quetu sepa ittien the sentiments getu said, Then itien 0:22:46.880 --> 0:22:51.720 daisy days, daisy days, all right, Ah, here was the 0:22:51.760 --> 0:22:54.359 idiotic thought that destroyed me easy days. 0:22:55.200 --> 0:22:55.600 Ah. 0:22:55.680 --> 0:22:59.200 Therefore it was that I coveted them so madly. I 0:22:59.240 --> 0:23:02.000 felt that there possess could alone ever restore me to 0:23:02.040 --> 0:23:03.960 peace in giving me back to reason. 0:23:09.640 --> 0:23:12.080 So Chuck what's going on here? Like, there's teeth. Now 0:23:12.440 --> 0:23:14.439 he's got teeth, and he's focused on the teeth. 0:23:14.480 --> 0:23:16.639 Well, now the teeth are in her mouth. She is 0:23:16.680 --> 0:23:21.399 disintegrating physically, except for her teeth, which remained perfect. Okay, 0:23:21.440 --> 0:23:23.760 So now he is hyper focused and obsessed with her 0:23:23.760 --> 0:23:25.080