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SPEAKER I'm gonna watch it again. I've not seen that recently. I got it working. Here's a good one. Is that, is it crap? Yeah, I wasn't any heat on the ball. he says. Does that helps me And Right, they left. They left you hanging. I know one of them said, one of the ones busted up pretty good too....

SPEAKER I'm gonna watch it again. I've not seen that recently. I got it working. Here's a good one. Is that, is it crap? Yeah, I wasn't any heat on the ball. he says. Does that helps me And Right, they left. They left you hanging. I know one of them said, one of the ones busted up pretty good too. we got banged up pretty good. OK, Showtime. Let's do it. Welcome back. Guys, if you can follow along on Antigone first, I'm gonna get through Antigone. today we will uh We will finish that wonderful play. We will move into Hammurabi's code of, uh, ethics, and you will all share with me your law that you found exciting or different or new in some way. And then we will, as time allows, maybe you're reading some short fiction for me now. Everybody's jumping in ahead and ground hoe, little Joyce Carol Oates, just keep plunging along. If we go far off schedule, don't panic. I'll get you there Did you ever see Platoon, that great war film Platoon Will and Dafoe, when the new guy comes in, yeah, right, right. The new guy, Charlie Sheen comes in. He's all scared, you know, and William Dafoe has to help him. He grabs the stuff, you know, and he finally looks at me he says if we get, if we get, yeah, that's right, good. I'm sorry that if we get separated, don't call out. I'll help it for you this time. I'm gonna take your bag this time, but. Not again. If we get off schedule, don't call out. It's OK. I'll get you there until the moment it's exam time and then you go, buddy, we didn't cover this, this and this. I go, OK, that's all right, we'll get you there. You'll be OK. What else? I have one other story to tell y'all. What is happening in the wild world of I guess that's it. It's kind of quiet, right? It's kind of like, uh, we're like, yeah, yeah, we pushed hard, you know, I mean that's just, I'm crying, and to that end, please look at line 405 and then taking me. We left off with our friend Creon, the king. The king pulled. And his, his sister, her sister, we know that there's been uh tension. We know that Polynices has been at least symbolically buried, right? There's a symbolic burial, and, uh, this is against his laws and he's mad about that. And he has told her. Uh, that's what I was gonna tell you. I've talked so much about Martin Luther King's letter from Birmingham Jail that I loaded it up for you. We will probably glance at it next week sometime if you find it under paper. That's OK, Doctor Rich. You don't need to give us any more reading. I just, you're barely covering the reading that we've assigned. I know. I like you, I feel like you're so far away, but I have to, that's all. You just say it. Just relax. Just an hour and a half, put your heads down. It's OK. I'll get you through it. Doctor. It's a long classes, aren't they? Next semester, we're going to a six-week format. Did y'all know you're losing your beloved Wednesdays off, not my, I voted against. I was like they love Wednesdays off. Y'all love Wednesdays off. I know. Let's go on Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Tuesday, Thursday, bum bum bum. But I think late afternoon Fridays are kind of light. I think you'll have light Fridays, a lot of traveling athletes, and a lot of, uh, uh. A lot of stuff that was controversial when it first rolled in people like, Oh, you can't take life stays away. And then everybody looked around like, this is the greatest thing ever. And so you liked it so much we thought we'd take it away from you. Oh, it was time. It was the, the schedules. I will say, and those of you going into education, I know there's a few teachers to be out there 1 hour and a half of like. That's a long, it's like you're like, uh, we have to listen to it, sir. You think it's long for you. You seem to be entertaining yourself. Sit down here for an hour and a half. I did an English 1301 class, a freshman English class and they, they came up with this idea. They said we're gonna do this for, and I mean I'm, I'm down for anything. I'm like that's fine. I'll do it Saturday morning class. Did we do a Saturday? No, yours was a regular class, right? ISD 1301 we did a Saturday morning. We're gonna start doing some Saturday classes, um, but we did one where we said we're just gonna do it every other Saturday anyway, long boards, it was a six hour it was just like some insane chunk of time and I was like. Yes we're gonna have a break now. Y'all go stand outside, smoke a butt, come back in. That was, that was a, that was a bit of a uh. That was a bit of an ordeal, we don't do that anymore. But we will be set anyway, this is my long rambling story of what saying settle in, we'll get you here. 1 o'clock will you be here before you know it back to our story. I left off on by the line 4:10 or so if you could follow along, guys, um, you know the backstory now. You know what's exciting what's happened, um. Antigone is tough, man. She says it's, you know, the expression speak truth to power. She is speaking truth to power. She is not gonna be, she's not gonna be pushed down. She's not gonna be put in her place. This is, we're gonna see this more in the second half of the play than we did in the first half where that whole, uh, issue of, of, um, a strong female character comes up. Remember the Greek audiences would have gone, wait just a minute. That Greek woman is not staying in her place, my goodness, right? And they would have been sort of shocked and horrified to see how Antigone speaks truth to power, but very important, and, uh, uh, uh, she feels she feels she feels as though she is in the right, and we will talk more about this in just a minute in a class on law and justice and and punishment, see what happens next. Bottom of that page if you're following on about line 410. Um, and thinking and thinking you said, if you're gonna kill me, then kill me, stop talking about it because you're just you're just running off of the mountain. And, and Creon says, Well, how could you, how could you, how do you not want to insult the memory, um, how do you not want to assault the memory of Ateocles who will be buried with all, with all good and with all with all fine, thank you, with all fine, um, um, an honorable and honorable burial ceremony. And, and Antigone says, I think the dead man would not say that I have insulted him, the one I've buried. I think both of them deserve a proper funeral, and Creon says, uh, you honor a traitor as much as you are honoring, um, Attiocles, and Antigone on about line 404/11 says his own brother, traitor, not equal in blood. They're, they're both brothers. They both fought for what they believed in. OK, who's right, who's wrong. He made war on his country. Who's he talking? Who's he talking about? Polynices, uh, Atiaocles defended it, and Antigone says, nevertheless, there are honors due to all the dead. We have to take care of the dead properly and so we were at that, we were at that critical moment there. Um, Creon disagrees. He doesn't think the traitors deserve the proper burial. Line 4:15. 0, Creon, Creon, which of us could say what the gods hold wicked? That's, that's really good. Like, who made you who made, just because you're the king, you think you have this divine link to the gods that tell you what's right and wrong. Crayon says and and that's that's pretty typical. I mean we we've heard this. It's, it's that whole concept of, of, of, well, I'm the king because God put me here or I'm the queen because clearly I am the, I'm God's or the God's representative on earth and so what I say must be what the gods believe in you like really. Be careful. When you start speaking for the gods in ancient Greece or modern day, um, be very, very careful because someone will point out, I don't think that's what the gods intended. Maybe not, right? Who can say which of us the gods hold wicked and, and Creon says, you, you're the wicked one. You broke the law and welcome to a law, a law and and and liature class. She absolutely broke the law. We know that and noticed that she laid down the rules when she talked to this Mindy. She said, Here's how you do it. If you do it, you do it in good conscience. You prepare, you don't hide, you don't lie about it. If you are making a moral stand, if you were decide to make a moral stand, you have an obligation to do it properly, and this is the way we do it even at the cost of your own life. Yeah I love my, I love my brother, but I think I don't wanna see him many times. I don't wanna go see him right now. I'll catch up with him later, right? Was Monday Night Fiction good? That was great. That was really good. Thank you for, thanks for coming. That was really good. You see me cry? I cried a little. I got a little choked up. I got a little choked up. I do it from time to time. I'm an old man now and my emotions are very, I just. I'll watch a commercial. My wife will be like, are you crying? No. The puppy came home. The puppy was. That paragraph that I read out loud, it's beautiful. It's so good. That was such a good piece we did Gilly had Doctor McCormick once again proved. I've always said this about Doctor McCormick. Let, let me like I look at the camera as though he's watching right now. I assume Doctor McCormick is watching me carefully all the time. My boss always, Doctor McCormick said, fantastic. You guys know he's our president, an incredible administrator. I've, uh, I've seen that guy work in, in, in crisis, the best boss in the world, so just fair, forthright. Incredible administrator and I knew that about him going in. The first time I watched him teach, I'm like, damn it, he's a better teacher than me too. He's so good. That was really, really good. I don't know why, I don't know why I thought of that. I was about to cry on this one like. My brother just quit it, Doctor Woods. Nobody wants to see you cry at the podium. Robinson Jeffers hurt hawks. If you go read that poem, go find Robinson Jeffers hurt Hawks. I can't teach it anymore. That's an old guy. Because I care, guys. I care, Creon says an enemy is an enemy, even 10. No, I'm not gonna get choked up about this one. And Antigone replies, and it's not nature to join in love, not in hate. And Creon finally, it says finally losing patience. I don't believe that. I think he lost his patience a long time ago. Then go join them then. If you love your brother so much, go join them, join them in hell. Well, hardcore, man. I throw it out there. Hamlet says at one point, Hamlet says. He's in heaven. If he's not there, look for him in the other place you'll find him there. Right, the chorus steps forward. Oh no, here comes the sister as many, as many comes forward. She's crying too. Everyone's crying. Doctor Woods is crying. This man's crying. Creon's not crying. He says, you, as, as many, you're gonna be put down as well. I'm convinced you are two sisters who were aiming to throw at my throne, like treason, the greatest act of treachery of all. Like they're literally trying to overthrow my authority. I have to make an example of them. Is Manny, do you confess your share of this crime, or do you deny it? And on line 4:30, is Manny says, yes, I confess if she will let me say so, it's a nice little wiggle room if my, if my big sister says it's OK, I guess, I guess it's OK for me, and she stops it, right? She goes, uh, no. Line 431. No, I mean, you have no right to say so. You would not help me. Remember? I came to you. We talked about this and I will not have you help me now. Ismay says, but I do share the guilt. I knew about it. I didn't tell anybody. Remember she goes, just if you're gonna do it, do it in secret. And it, and Tiffany says that's not how, if you break the law for a moral reason, we don't hide about it. You don't, you don't do it quietly. Do you refuse me, Antigone? I wanna die with you, said the sister. And Antigone says, you will not lessen my death by sharing it. I'm like, damn, it's pretty hardcore. She's like, I'm gonna die for the cause, and if I die for the cause, I don't want anybody to, to lessen it just by saying. When they came to Socrates and they said, Socrates, we have found you guilty. You were guilty. Now here's your punishment. You can either go live out in the country you can be banished, Socrates. You can go live out in the country in a beautiful country estate with the best wine and, and, and the horses and, and books and you can read and you can live out your life banished, right? Or you can drink this hemlock, which is terribly painful and you'll die a horrible, horrible death. And it's gonna be, yeah, beautiful house out in the country, slow, painful, lingering death. And Socrates, as you well know, the story goes, Socrates went, I'll take the hemlock. I'll drink the poison. And everybody went. Socrates, beautiful country house. Horses. Painful slow death and Socrates said, you have found me guilty, men of Athens, for teaching the youth, for doing my job as a teacher. And you have sentenced me to either banishment or death. I choose death and everybody went, What the hell? What? Why? And he said he told the police he's, I'll be this, this will be remembered. This I will be a martyr for. The cause Jesus of Nazareth has a similar moment. Take this cup from me. He says, I have to take it. Hey, how are you? I have to do it and I, and I, and I have to go through with this, right? Antigone says, I have to go through with this and you're not gonna share this with me, right? Don't share this with me at all. OK. Bottom of that page, if you're following along with that page, about 4:45. Whenick says, what, why are you laughing at me? What, why are you, why are you doing this? Don't confess to a crime that you didn't commit. And Signy says, no more of this, many, you are alive, but I belong to death. I want you to watch the image of, um, we're gonna see this as it, as it ramps up here towards the end. Don't worry, I'm sure it's gonna end well for everybody. It's just a great Greek tragedy. Tell me, sir, yes, yep. There's Caragos and then there's the chorus. Yes, thank you. Good question. Caragos is the speaker of the chorus, so he is the one that steps forward when when they would have done this on stage, remember that the Greek Greek drama starts as a religious ceremony. It literally starts as like you go to church, ta ta ta and everybody's out there and the, and the chorus comes out and they chant at you, you know, honor the gods, don't be bad. Don't sleep with your mother and rip your eyes out. Don't. It's a great plan. Everybody's listen to me like, I mean, don't you know that? Hammurabi, don't rip your eye out, um, and so they would, they would chant like sort of like, um, um, a church service. And then as the story goes, a young actor, soon to be actor named Thespia stepped forward. He went, he went, you know what, I don't have to stand here with these, these guys are holding me back. Where's the spotlight? And he stepped forward and he directly addressed us, and they talked to and someone went, That's pretty cool. What are we doing there? And they were acting. So the first actor, those of you who are, uh, actors. Might belong to the International Society of Thespians. Yes, yes, the Thespians. I'm a proud Thespian. Used to get me beat up after school because the teacher would come. There will be a thespian meeting at 3:30 and all my friends look at me go, shut up. I'm a proud thespian. I'm an actor. That's what it meant. The first actor was Thespian, um, so you know this and you've done a little acting. So when they had the one speaker, that guy right there, and you know what, Chris, in this, in this, uh, in this translation. In some translations, he's just a chorus member in some translations, they give him a name. So you can imagine that's the core. He is the spokesperson for the chorus, right? Um, watch for the metaphor of A way of, of death as she's starting to speak in these terms. Remember, she's engaged, right? We know she's engaged to be married, so conveniently, who? Creon's son, right? Hamon Hamon is the, is going to marry her and she has already kind of turned her language to now I must. Now I must marry death. Like I'm gonna be, I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm engaged to death, you know, so that becomes kind of a cool metaphor that we follow all the way through, OK? Um, let's see, let's see our friend young Mr. Hammon in just a minute is gonna join us on about line 455. Uh, uh, this man, he says, Creon says you're talking to a dead woman. She's already a dead woman, a line 4:55 or so, I'm sorry this isn't numbered, but she is your own son's bride. That's the first mention of that we go, oh, interesting. And Creon says he says all these typical, you know, you know the old guy in the room, it's not me, thank God it's not me. You know the old guy in the room, typically I'm the old guy in the room. Are you sure, Doctor Rich, you're not the old guy in the room, but the, the, the well meaning old guy that says something so, so like sexist. They were like, what, what my dad, God bless him, my dad was one as well I mean he would say something and I go, Pop, you know, we don't say that in like, What? What the hell? I didn't mean anything but what. Yeah, good. Everybody in this room just had it. You just thought of your uncle. I don't know. There's some uncle that you just had Christmas with you. Yes, and they're not bad people typically, but they just kind of Creon is that old kind in the room, uh, he goes, he goes, Well, you know, your son is engaged to her. And he goes, What's the big deal? There'll be other places for him to push his plow. What? What the hell? What did I say? Oh, I'm the bad guy, huh? I'm like, Yes, Dad, we know, no, no, no. He and he says I don't, she's a wicked woman. She's bad news. I don't want him, I don't want him marrying her anyway. Thanks soon to be father-in-law. Oh dearest Hammon, how your, how your father will wrong you. God says enough of this childish talk. The chorus Charagos, the the speaker of it, says, you intend to steal this girl from your son. Will you really do this? Andre says, No, I'm not gonna do it. We talked about this last week, last night. I'm not gonna do this. I'm washing my hands. Right, I watch. Death is gonna do it for me. Then she must die. Enough, enough of this talk. Take them away. Cran says. I've had it. Take them away, guard them, make sure they don't run. We have a long religious ceremony with the, with the chorus who comes forward and says, you know, here's Oedipus's children, and we knew this punishment was gonna come. It had to come. There was no escaping it. Fate is fate. We'll talk more about that in a couple of other stories. I like the connection to. I like the connection to when we do crime literature. I like the connection to, uh, in, in, uh. Uh, in cold blood, when Truman Capote starts talking about these killers and goes, you know, one of them was just faded to he, he was just, he was just bad news from the beginning. Like, you know, you know, like there was just no, he was just bad news from the start. The other one kind of got caught up in it maybe if he had had the right, you know, this whole thing about faith, we'll talk about that some when we get to the modern stuff too. And here comes the prince. Yay, a bright young boy loves his girl Antigone. He knows that she's in trouble, right? And she is, and he wants to, you know, this crayons my dad, and look at how he just starts playing and it's so perfect. Just a little bit here. Oh yes, yeah. 00, hell yes, dad, what you. All this Can I have the car keys yet? He's playing it perfectly, right? And Creon's on his, he's on guard. He knows he's pissed him off. He knows he's, he's like, see, this shows you right off the bat that Creon already is starting to doubt himself. He made it, he did, he said, All right, it's almost like, it's almost like he made an executive order on Monday and then on Tuesday he went, OK, no, no, I changed my mind. And he may come back again. We just don't know it's like Creon goes, don't do it. You'll be stoned, right? We're gonna throw rocks at you. He starts to think about it and she's strong and she's got the people's favor, right? People are starting, we know this action's happening on stage, right? On the amphitheater. We know that they're there with their masks and they're, you've see happy mass, sad masks, you know, the, the grief. Anything, but we are to assume that the people of Thebes are talking about this. This is big happenings and a leader, this is a good book for those of you who will go to leadership, and many of you will, all of you will at some point like, no, I wanna talk that entire show. Thank you very much. No thank you. Somebody's gonna look at you some day and what should we do? And you're gonna go. Me? Are you asking me? Oh, thanks. OK. Um, welcome to Leadership one on one, right? He is, he's trying to be a good leader. But he's just screwed up step by step, and Hammon knows this, and Hammon gives him a little nudge, Dad. As I would say to my dad, Dad, we don't say that in polite company ever, what, what the hell? What the hell? Then you get mad at me. Good. You guys are all having this so I'm so glad we all have it. Is it me? It might be me. If it happens, you can point it out, gentlemen. George, we don't say that in the plane company, don't we? Crayon says, OK, here you are to make, make my life hell. The sun shows up. I'm sure you're here to chew my ass too. We don't say that in black company, Doctor Woods, but we don't, we don't say to chew your ass. He's, he's on guard. He's ready. He goes, I'm sure you've heard that your girlfriend is. A nut job who's thanks uh she's she's done gone against me and buried her brother and we're gonna have to kill her and now you're here to yell at me about it. No, Dad, not at all. Oh no, absolutely not. I, bottom of the page if you're following the page, line 500 if you're looking at the lines, I am your son, Father. You are my guide. You make things clear for me and I obey you. Did you believe him at first for the first time you read? I was kind of believe him at first. I was like, you don't kissed by it. Oh my God, your, your girlfriend's about to be put down and you're like, whatever you say, Dad, I'm on your side. No marriage means more to me than your continuing wisdom. Oh, Creon was not expecting that. He is. is pleasantly surprised. He is good. That's the way to behave. That's the way you should behave subordinate everything else, my son 1505 to your father's will. That is what a man prays for. Sons attending the dutiful in the house are the ones who hate their father's enemies. Well done. You're gonna go far, kid. Keep it up. I'm very impressed with you, honoring your father's friends. Um, line 511 or 5:12, so you were right, and here comes that, that, that weird underlying sexism, right? Sexist language. So you were right not to lose your head over this woman. What the hell, there'll be more. My, my first major breakup, my spur, go ahead, take a moment, everybody think about it, think about it, uh, 1st, 1st 1, the real one, not the little one, not the crush, not the, the real one, probably 10th, 11th, 12, maybe maybe 2 days ago. Thanks Doctor Woods. Thanks a lot. That first woman, they just ripped heart out bloody. I came home and I was devastated. 10th grade. Tina, oh, I hope you're out there. Somehow she's still watching me, right? Tina, I, I hate you for what you did, but I'll leave my wife and kids right now. Take me back. What? Oh my God, come on, doctor. What you Tina broke my heart. We were having a really good relationship. Things were going well 10th grade. I was very dorky. You wouldn't know this to look at me now because I'm so damn cool. I was a very dorky kid in 10th grade. And I never thought that this is the underlying fear of the breakups. You never think you're gonna get to be with anybody. I can't, uh, I'll never be with anybody ever again. Tina broke my just out of out of nowhere just like night things were great. One night we went and saw Urban Cowboy together. That's right, great, great film. Thank you. You can date it now you go, uh, 19. The next day she said, I think this summer we should see other people. And I went, I'm. What? She went this summer, you know, we've been pretty hot and heavy. We're only in 10th grade. Why don't we see if we want to see other people this like during the summer, and then if it works out, we'll get back together in the 11th grade. I knew what that meant. I went home and my dad went, what the hell is wrong with you? They come and go. I'm like, Dad, he was trying to help me. He was trying to help. Thank you. You should be horrified too. He's like, it's it's just, it's just a girl you're in 10th grade. It's there'll be others, I guess he was trying to help me, but it, but it, but it seemed insensitive at the time. It's insensitive, right? Dad? Thank you back, back, yeah, poor Tina, come on, love of my life. He was right. There were others came and went. That was right. And then he told me a story about his breakup that his father in Hertford, North Carolina took him down the ice. This is my dad had great stories, and I think half made up, but this one might have happened. He came home equally devastated, and his father, my grandfather, a great man who I was. very, very much took him down to the train station in Hertford, North Carolina, and the street, oh sorry, streetcar, it doesn't work, the story doesn't work unless streetcar and a streetcar came by ding ding ding ding ding and he went, what do you see? And my dad went, streetcar and it went ding ding ding ding ding and off it went. You guys are way too young to know what a streetcar is, but just go with the metaphor for a minute. A couple minutes later, ding ding ding dinging the one came. He goes, What about that one? He goes, Yeah, ding ding ding ding. He goes, What do you see? He was, well, that one was kind of pretty. That one was kind of old. That was kinda he was just like street cars. There's none of them coming along every 5 minutes. I know. That's what my father said. I would never when my son, when my son had his heart ripped out of his chest, I said, I'm sorry you're hurting. It's, it sucks. I don't, right? I didn't try to say you'll be fine. Don't be a nut. Don't minimize our pain. Can we please get back to that thing. It's turned into a therapy session again. I'm sorry, Tina. I still love you. Call me. OK, that's good works. I have to be careful. My wife does watch things on occasion. I'll be checking them and my walk by and go, Hey, what are you talking about? I'm like, my first, my 10th grade girlfriend Tina. How was that appropriate? Because Crela's being an ass. He doesn't mean to be. He's like, she, there'll be another one who cares about Antigone. She's trouble. She's trouble boy, line 5/20, and this is kind of heavy duty. The woman dies, we're gonna put her down. Don't worry about a thing, it's gonna happen. Show me the man who keeps his house in order and I will show you somebody fit for public authority. In other words, you let your woman walk all over you. Is that underlying me. Oh no, you're gonna go, Oh, what's the matter? Your woman is oh, it's worse pants for the family. Oh, you let your woman call the shots. You can't ever be a leader as well. The Greeks were terrible, terrible. Male chauvinists, this ancient Greece. I was like xenophobic male chauvins. There was like this is this is everybody in the know should be going like this. Nah, but Sophocles is doing this to point out their, their like foibles, right? Good theater does that on time to time. When you watch a movie, you come home later and you go, wait a minute, right. I think that was about me, right? Hey, I'm on with, with the slightest bit of it says boyish boyishly earnest like 5:45 or so, Dad, you just could be more right. And yet there are other men who are also smart like you, Dad, I'm pretty smart too and their opinions might be helpful, huh, I wonder what other people are saying right now about this, and they're probably not telling you the truth because your temper terrifies them. But they mutter and whisper in the dark. No one will tell you the truth, speak truth to power. Nobody will tell you the truth because they're scared of you, dad, but they think you're wrong. They think you've made a mistake, they think you've overstepped here, and you certainly shouldn't put her to death. That's, I'm just, I, I mean, I'm on your side, dad. I'm just saying what other people are saying. It takes a moment like. Wait a minute, line 555. She covered her brother, her brother's body. Is this indecent? She kept him from dogs and vultures. Is this a crime? Death. She should have all the honor that we can give her. That's what some people say, Dad, not me. No, no, no, no. The crayon goes, who, who the hell is saying who what other people are talking about this? You start to think about it. It's a long speech by hand on 575. Oh, Doctor Woods, this great drama. It's all long speeches. When stubborn trees are torn up roots and all, the same thing happens to you, you know what they say about a tree that will not bend, that will not yield a little bit. It gets blown down, right? You need to yield, old man. You need to bend a little bit. Think about what you're doing here. Forget that you are angry. Let yourself be moved. I know I am young. But the reasonable thing to do is Lord Maby, even those who, even those who are younger than you. Suppose, suppose somebody younger than you is wiser than you, you should know, line 580. You can learn from the young. Well, finally, Creon starts to figure out what's going on here. The chorus, the lead speaker of the chorus comes forward and says, you should listen to him, King. What he says is sensible. Andre says, you think it's, you can consider it right for a man of my 587. You consider it right for a man of my years of experience to, to get schooled by a boy. Hamlin says, but if I'm not right, then why are you worried? If I'm young and I'm right, what's my age barrier? Great. Now we have some young versus, we've got it all male versus female, state versus laws, God versus man-made laws, and now young. Gen, what the hell generation are y'all? Where are we at? Z? Where are we at? I don't know. What are you, Gen Y are y'all, you're Z? What is it? What's, who are those? Oh, they go with Gen alpha. Did they start over again? G Alpha, right? You are the cus you were most of you were born in. 0406 04 I was born under the Carter. You're a millennial. I'm a baby boomer. Don't feel bad. I have the last year. You guys can look this. I always say that up. People go, you're not baby boomer. I'm like, 19 so you're Gen X, yeah, 1964 baby boomer. We screwed up it sorry, here I'm Creon like, sorry, sorry we left you this horrible mess. Bye. Good luck. Enjoy your first home. Enjoy the environment, enjoy. The plastics that are in. Oh listen, I've got asbestos and lead, lead in me, all right? We, we played when I was a kid we played with lead figures, that's not a problem, right? You said, Doctors that explains a lot about you now we understand, but you know, the pla. But the worst baby boomers still be worst generation like a like. So this is youth versus you all didn't, y'all didn't jump into protest and go, no, no, Doctor Woods, baby boomers did great things didn't did nothing. We have, we were the luckiest generation we came back. The war has been fought, right? There was like you could let the we wanna depress you. I can't even talk to my sons. If I talk to my sons about this, they get mad at me. I'm like, it's not me personally. I'm sorry you have crippling through the loans and, and you're and you've never owned a house and I'm sorry that you'll have to change jobs 18 times that you get downside. I just know it's gonna get better. I think it's gonna get better. I feel better. AI will save us. Artificial intelligence will absolutely save us. No, that's right. They already said AI has already said, you dumb asses, here's how you take care of climate change. And we went, huh, nobody has thought about, you know, I'm too stupid to know the deal, but they, they, they're like, oh, you have too much carbon, there's too much carbon, and that's why the climate is changing. We got this. Thank you, Ali. OK, back to Hammon, back to Generation X, back to back to the, the, the Gen Z's fighting with, uh, fighting with the baby boomers. He says, you're just a boy. I shouldn't have to listen to you at all, right? Line 605. You are a fool, an adolescent fool. You've been taken in by a woman. Oh, such a terrible thing to say. Hamlin says, you'll never see me taken in by anything. I'm, he's about to walk, right? He's gonna do the, you know, listen, you guys always have the power. This is the funny part. You guys have the power. You absolutely have the power because all you have to do is go, I guess you never see your grandkids again. Who was? And your parent, I know it's not time quite for that. You don't have, you don't have that card to throw most of you that card to throw, but soon you will have the most powerful thing in the world, a grandchild, and we will do anything you ask some of you know. It's like, oh well, you have all the power in the world, I guess you, I guess if you wanna play with your granddaughter ever again, uh, here, here's my checkbook. What do you want? Here, anything, take car keys, money, house, anything I give me the granddaughter. He says, I'm leaving you're not gonna have a wife, you're not gonna have a daughter-in-law. You will not, you're worried about your reputation. You're worried about like your, your people will look back on you historically, you're making a mistake, right? And Creon says you will never ever marry her while she lives. And with your death, listen to this threat page 60 my God, I'm supposed to do all kinds of trigger warnings on this. I'm sorry. Trigger trigger warnings, trigger warnings, trigger warnings. We're about to deal with some heavy stuff here. I'm sorry guys. Oh, that's OK. I wrote, I wrote a disclaimer this syllabus, didn't I? Did this, the disclaimer said, look, we're gonna deal with heavy crap and, you know, I'm I'm sorry. I'm not trying to make light of it, but we're about to see a bunch of dead bodies on stage, guys. That's what happens in in Greek drama and Hammond floats it out there in line 610 already. He says, go ahead, let her die. She, she must die, but her death will cause another. A Crayon Crayon goes, what? Now that's a weird failed threat, right? I mean, who's he talking about? Is he talking about himself? Is he talking about Joe Costa, Mom? We're gonna be here in a minute. Is he talking about him? Are you threatening? Are you talking to me? Are you talking to me? It looks like you're talk. Why are we doing taxi driver? We should do taxi driver in this class too. You speaking threats to me? And Creon says, uh, maybe it's a threat. Maybe I'm just being honest. Another, have you lost your senses? Is this an open threat against your father, the king? Halin says there's no threat speaking to MS. Oh, get in there. I swear you'll regret this superior tone of yours. If you were not my father, I would say, crown interrupts your girls, you girl struck fool, don't play words with me. Man, it's getting ugly. Time to bring in the service. Break this up. Get them to, uh, have you ever done this? Oh my God, have you ever, have you ever had that fight going with your parents and you're like, I can, I can't even get out of this. I don't know how this is so bad. Like they know it's bad. You know it's bad. Oh, that's good. You should see everybody in this room just like, yeah, like, your kitchen table, things are things are being said and you're like, how do, how do I. OK, I only got my father hit me one time in my life. I mean, I got spanking and stuff, I mean, like curled up his fist, cold cut me one time. I snuck out. I was 17 years old. I was just screwing around. I was probably trying to go date Tina again. I don't know what I was doing. I was out. I was being a bad boy out on the streets, and I tried to sneak back into my house and licking in that having a good sense, and I tried to tell him, just tell me I don't, I don't think violence is ever appropriate, but I kind of think my dad was right this time. I come to the front porch. It's very late. I'm about 17 years old, 2 o'clock in the morning, and he's standing there waiting for me. Dad's on the porch. On my dad was a big guy on the porch, and he said, What the hell you think I'm running here, a hotel? And without an instant, without a blink of the eye, without any, I went, yeah, and I'm fixing to check out, old man. Right, wasn't that a good comeback? That was me, boom bam boom. The one I was looking at the stars. I was like, Hey, this is weird. How did I end up on the ground. He felt bad, you know, fathers and sons, he never, but boy, you, I said, yeah, I'm fixing to check out.e. that's terrible. I love my father. rest in peace. He was a great man. And he threw me right across. I didn't even block it. I didn't know what was happening. I mean, I didn't know this was our relationship. I didn't know we hit each other. Come on. But I, you gotta admit that's pretty good. I went down with a good line. That was a pretty good line, sorry that he cried and I cried. We both cried and it was OK. We probably Vilu is always the violence is never the answer, kids, but Creon seems to think it is. Creon thinks perhaps, right, good, you all just thought about your one line you're like, oh, I'm yes, and I'm fixing to check out old man don't use it. It's not, it's not, it's not a great line. I mean it's a great line, but. Bottom of that page, 6:35, Creon says, Look, enough is enough. I'm gonna carry her away. I'm gonna lock her in a vault of stone. We'll give her some food, as is our custom to absolve the state of her death, cowards, and let her pray to the gods of hell. No longer that's no longer notice that uh it's no longer uh stoning. She's gonna be entombed that blood is not on my hands. OK, Corus comes forward, tells us these are terrible things that happened. Oh my God, look at the time, we must move on. No more stories about getting beat as a child, Doctor Woods. I was kind of proud of him. I told him I was, yeah, I deserved it. Good one, pop. Good one. Bottom of the page, Antigone enters garden. Antigone speaks to her followers. Look upon me, my friends, line 663. Look upon me, friends, and pity me. Goodbye to the sun. Now sleepy death summons me off I go, yet unpraised. Notice how she, uh, it, it does feel like a kind of, well, no kidding, Doctor West but be to it feels very final doesn't it feel final to you? Yes, it's very final. She's going away. Don't mock me. Think of me. Don't judge me unjustly. Think of me as we go. Somehow the curse ofedipus is still being played out line 695. Yes, it is all because this crime, that horrible crime that my father committed. Father's sons, father's daughters, bringing on, you remember when we did the. Cain and Abel and, and the Lord says, I will visit this upon the next generation sevenfold. I will punish that's a long time. I'm not looking to punish your children, I'll punish their children and their children and their children. Right? Antigone says, let me go, line 705. Our words are bitter. Lead me to my vigil. It is time to go. Creon interrupts. We'll go. Quit talking about it and then to her. If people were trying to talk, the last guy who, the last guy. True Grit. Thank you. The last guy True Grit who starts talking like, hey, we're gonna hang you sometime today. You can talk as much as you want, but eventually, Let's go. The platform's gonna open up. Trian says, you have your orders, take her to the vaults. And off they go. Antigone says, oh Tomb vaulted bride, bed line 5 714. I go now. I go to see you now as though she were going off to her, uh, own marriage, but this marriage was absolutely death. Uh, but maybe he'll turn on OK. Maybe, maybe he'll change his mind on in time. I think he might. Maybe he'll listen to his wife. Oh, I know who he's gonna listen to on, on page, I don't know what page number you guys are on. I'm sorry, uh, bottom 7 line 77071 72. Go to scene 5, the beginning of scene 5. We have the soothsayer. You've met him before. Those of you who had a class with me before know that we've seen Tyrisius before. Tyriius loves the, the blind seer. He's the blind prophet. He's the one who always tells the truth. He can predict the future. Gift from the gods and guess what? Nobody listens to him. Nobody ever listens to him. He always tells him exactly what's gonna happen. He says if you do this, then this will happen and people go, no, I don't know Tyreius maybe you. Cassandra has that too. Poor Cassandra. She is also, she has the gift of, of foresight, and, uh, no one will ever listen to Cassandra either. It's almost like, it's almost like there's a warning here for us. It's almost like when someone tells you something, take heed if you think Tyysius is a seer, he comes forward. He is a, a stock character from Greek mythology, um. Greek theater he's led in by a small boy and Tyrisus says, Here I am to talk to you and Creon says, what have you got to tell us? 00 ho ho, I've got a little bit of things to tell you. You're making a huge mistake, so, um. 1800 or so. I tell you now, Creon, you have brought this upon yourself, this new calamity. Right? The gods want to be, the gods want the bodies taken care of correctly. You put an order that said you shouldn't. Therefore, the gods are pissed. Li 803. Uh, 0 my son, these are no trifles. Think, all men, this is great. Oh my God, this is good stuff, guys. Write this in your write this in your secret journal, your leadership journal, how to be a good manager, how to be a good boss, how to be a good anything. All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride when you make a mistake. Acknowledge it, know that you've done it and change course before it's too late. He's gonna change course, isn't he? It's too late, too late. Right? Y 820 Do what you will. Go into business, make money. He gets, he goes, You, you profits. You're all the same. You're all looking for a handout. You're all, I don't believe you, you truth tellers. I don't believe anything you say, even though you're, even though everything you say always comes true, whatever. Tyra says, I think you're just doing this for, I think you're out to get me. I think you're trying to overthrow my throne. I think you are, um, in on it, right? And Tyrisio says, K, you are gonna drive me to say words, go ahead and say that. No, you need to know, you need to know what to do. What you need to do is make it right, line 845. You need to save the girl. She's been, she's been entombed and then he leaves. And again, it's a very great tragedy. We get to all sit around. The the chorus gets their say, for God's sake, Creon, change your mind, right? Someone go, go fix it right now. Creon says, you would really have me do this line 870. Yes, Creon, yes, it must be done at once. God's moved swiftly to cancel the folly of stubborn men. It's hard to deny the heart, but I, I say it, say it. She's in there, she's dying, you're taking your time. I will do it. I will no longer fight with destiny. Good. Go do it. I will go. Bring axes, servants, come. 875. Come with me to the tomb. I buried her. I will set her free. Oh, thank goodness. Everything's. Let's just stop there and and they, as we do in my, as we do in my world lecture class right now where we're doing, we're doing fairy tales. We just did Hansel and Gretel. It's great, so much. I know you guys are stuck so I'm sorry. And I said, and then the witch. Left them alone and they all lived happily ever after. No, it's not, none of those fairy tales and happily ever after, kind of, sometimes they do. We're about to have happily ever after a Greek tragedy. I will fix this, right? Where's that? Can I just skip an entire session? When is, when is his wife get involved? Oh, Adrew Dysons, that's right, not Jacosta. Thank you, to play, looking way ahead. A Diceys comes on the scene. This is the mother, right? And the mother has learned that uh uh Hayamon had gone to the, gone to the um. Going to the cave. There's all kinds of crap happening line 965 and it all happens off stage because the Greeks couldn't stand. They like to, they like to talk about violence, but oh, violence was no one's gonna act as. Shakespeare brings around like just let the bodies pile up, right? Let's just, the people are dying left and right on the stage. The Greeks, it was unseemly to see violence. So when Oedipus rips his eyes out, he's out there. He wanders in with his eyes, you know. The dude upon his beard, it's a great line, right? Um, but so all of this is happening offstage. We know that Hammon went to the, went to the cavern. They tried saving Antigone. We know that she's dead, she's hung herself, right? She wasn't gonna have a slow lingering death in the cave. I don't, I don't bla. like, nope, this is it. I'm going, I'm, I'm, I'm gonna get out. Hammond sees the father come and takes a swipe at him, right? Father against son. We know that the son tries to, well, and does kill himself and finally, because there's not enough death, the mom goes off stage and dies too. I think it's lunchtime, kids, let's go. No, don't get excited, but we're getting close. Um, the burden is too much to carry. All these things have happened. line 990. Ham and my son, so young, so young to die. I was a fool, not you, you died for me. Creon says the truth is hard to bear. Surely a God has crushed me beneath the weight of heaven. Notice that this is a good, uh, we do this pretty quick, don't we? Who's to blame? The gods, and clearly the gods, let's bring it back to a crime and punishment class. Clearly the gods are to blame. Absolutely not man-made laws, right? What burden is worse than I find here? And the messenger goes, oh, by the way, your wife is dead too. What? She, she went and she went and killed herself as well. Oh pity, it's all too much more than I can take. She stood like 1015. She stood before her altar. Her heart was broken with her own knife. She killed herself. She flew, she, uh, uh, fell. Sorry guys, like I said, trigger warning, a lot, a lot of, a lot of bodies stacking up. Crayon, interestingly enough, is still alive. Let's, let's note that once again, the principal, the person responsible for most of this, oh God, I am sick with fear. He says, are there no swords here? Who has one for me? I deserve to die as well. And the messenger says, by the way, she cursed you on her way out. She said it's your fault. Damn, her curse is upon you for the death of both. The kids, right? Creon says he replies line 10:22, it is right that I should be. I alone am guilty. I know it and I say it. Lead me in quickly, friends. I have neither life nor substance. Lead me in. Take me, take me to my death as well, right? Lead me away. I have been rash and foolish. We don't know if he's gonna go in there and die or not, um, or kill himself. I have killed my son and my wife. I look for comfort. The comfort lies here dead. uh. Uh, and then the chorus finally gives us goodbye on stage. The chorus says on line 10:30, 10:40 or so. Just a nice little lesson on the way as the as the as the Greek audience just numbed as you are right now as the Greek audience sits and goes. What the heck would they love to make this stuff up. They're like, yeah, so the leaves, he wins again. He wins the, he wins the prize once again. They, they said we should have one little lesson here, right? And that lesson is there is no happiness where there is no wisdom, no wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished and proud men in old age, you baby boomers, learn to be wise. If they can, all right guys, there you go. This is your first class. We got, we got about 30 minutes. We're gonna cram through some, cram through some, uh, now I'm gonna shut up and you get to talk really, Doctor Woods, are you? I think maybe. Please take out your law, your one law, your one rule. You be ready to, we're gonna go around the room and we're gonna, you'll have to get up, uh, and we're gonna kill each other, uh, what we found exciting or different or. Odd about uh Hammurabi's uh rules, laws, however the translation is what um code. It's an early code, right? It's one of the earliest codes. I told you that last time. I'll give you a few, a few introductory comments. Oh, please do, Doctor Woods. Damn, I'm gonna read you one short story and then I'm gonna let you go. What? Sounds like we're gonna be here for hours. We'll be good, I promise. We're good. Get your, um, get your little law out and get ready to talk about the code of Hammurabi. Here is what you need to know. Hammurabi was a 6th king of a uh uh a Babylonian king. You will not be quizzed on this. Loki then why are you telling us? Because I like this, you know, come on. Wikipedia doesn't lie. It told me the following. Um, in modern day Iraq, he is best known for uniting much of Mesopotamia under Babylonian rule, creating one of the earliest and most comprehensive written legal codes. Those of you going to law school, somebody you'll sit down with, not these in particular, but very much like the people who learned how to do this, you'll sit. Down and learn your, uh, learn your rules, right? Hammurabi's leadership marked a turning point in the region's history, elevated Babylon from a small city-state to the dominant empire that it became. Some of the things you should know, uh, OK, he's a military badass. We get it. He was a real guy. I guess we should like this was a real guy. This is a real king, and he did cool things and he came down like, like. Some of you know the tradition of Moses coming down the mountain and saying, here are your 10, here are your 10 commandments. Hammurabi literally came down and said, These are the laws of this is a great God's name. Let's see, the, the law of, oh I hope I can find it. I'm gonna do it off the top of my head if I can't. Shama Shamash was the god of law. What a great summer. He was gonna, he was gonna give the law. Hammurabi showed up and said the guns have given me this law. Sounds familiar, doesn't it? And the law, the laws are as follows, right? Um, some of the things you should know about. What do you need to know about? The purpose of the laws uh uh were obviously to establish order, resolve disputes, legalize his own authority. His claim, his, it, it backs up his claim to divine authority. Once again, I'm the I'm the king, therefore, I'm the king, therefore, clearly everything I say, Shamash is on my side. So you know one of this is Shamash, right? That's right. These are his laws. I'm just praying. There's about, uh, uh, close to 300 of them. They address civil, criminal, economic matters. They are principles of justice. This is the famous eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth. Some of you picked that. I bet every everybody know this one. Come on, Doctor Woods, it's OK if you have, if you have that one, you can say it proudly. I got a bunch of different ones that I like, there's some of the ones that I like them. I mean, they're all pretty straightforward. Let's, let's go around the room, shall we? Who's first? Put your hand up. Who's, who's doing? Everybody's gonna say, go right back here. Thank you, man. What's your law? If a man was to separate from a woman who has born children or his wife who has. Then he shall give that wife her dowry and a part of the I don't know how to say that of the field, garden property so that she can rear her children. When she has brought up her children, a portion of that should be given to the children, equals equal as that of one son shall be given to her. Then she may marry the man. That's pretty, that's pretty good law, isn't it, right? Nothing wrong with there. Why did that catch your attention? But just like, it's pretty advanced, right? Doesn't it? It feels pretty fair, evenhanded. Yes, I don't think we even have that in the state of Texas. we got no I don't want my walk, but yeah, this is you're gonna take care of, you're gonna take care of, of, of someone that you want to leave. Nice. Who's, who's next? Let's go here first, Jack. Uh, if the owner, or this is 11, if the owner do not bring witness to identify the lost article, he is an evil doer. He is produced and shall be put to death. Wow. That's, if you make a claim, you better back that claim, right? Very good. If you can't produce the witness, a lot of these end and you should be thrown in the river. Did you read that all the way through, it's like, and, and if you live, we'll get this again when we get to the crucible or the Salem witch trials. If you, if the water rejects you, no, see, it works backwards. If you're a witch and the water rejects you, then we have to kill you anyway. You either drown or we kill you by pressing rocks on you. But you know, if you survive the river, perhaps you're innocent. thank you. Who's next? Back in the back. Code 128. If a man take a woman to wife but have no intercourse with her, this woman is no wife to him, and I picked this one because one. I think I can stop you there. No, I'm just kidding I picked this one because one, it's just. Straight weird to say the least, and 2, it's still though it's still a law in some to consummate a marriage. That's right. And it's not only is the law in some states, but it's also canon law, which means it's a law under the Catholic Church. That's amazing. Thank you for sharing that one. If, if it, if it does, if it's not consummated, it's not a marriage. Very good. Go ahead. 229 and 230. If a builder build a house or something and does not construct a And the house which he built falling fall in and built its owner, then that builder. If it kills the son, if it kills the son of the owner, then the son of that building. Come on. And yet, and yet I've dealt with some contractors, OK guys, that's, that's, that's the the. You'd have to, the craftsmanship there, you have to do a very good job. And if it falls on the kid, I'm sorry for your kid, but it's heavy this way. Yes, ma'am. Who else? You go. Uh, I chose 5 sentences. You can separate. What did you find about it? Basically he's saying like if a judge wrongly accused somebody then they'll be um they'll get the um sentence that he put upon him and he can't be a judge. That's exactly right. The Greeks had a great system. The, the ancient Greeks, I'm, I'm jumping ahead now. So the ancient Greeks had a system is like we you represent yourself. There were no lawyers, right? In fact, The university that you were sitting in right now, the birth of the university was, I won't, I promise not to take too much time. The birth of the university was a was because in ancient Greece when people were accused of something they couldn't rep they couldn't go get someone to come stand in the trial and stanford. They had to represent themselves and so all these little schools, right? Sous, Socrates, Aristotle, I saw sprung up on like how to speak well, how to think well, how to do a good argument, and, and if you could defend yourself, you had to defend yourself. And if you brought false charges against someone. Does it end in death? I can't remember. Does it also end in death. No punishment some kind of punishment has to take the charge that he gave. Oh well, yeah, there you go. So many of these have been death yes please in the back. about the same Yep. guilty to the accuser should take possession of the house. He is not guilty he is. Yeah. We It's great. Every everybody's worried about is that there's like you can tell it's it's, it's a. It's a simple society in a lot of ways, and the main thing is possessions, right? We are not that heavy on on. I mean, there was a time in the, in the Middle Ages like the theft of, the theft of something was if you stole something from me, you could have like literally, if you steal my pig and then winter comes and I don't love my pig and my family starves, that's bad news. Go ahead, sir. Uh, Rule 218, the physician make a large incision with the operating knife and kill him. Open a tumor with the operating knife and cut out the eye. His hand shall be cut off. That just only seems fair, right? Malpractice. And I was looking this like it was pretty rudimentary surgery and there's all I found out there's also 6000 demons a doctor must know before they performed what was wrong? 6000. So I'm assuming that there's all these guys running around doing hotels room surgery. And people are dying that there's gotta be somebody's gonna say if you're gonna open up my tumor, you better do it right. And it's like the gods are like absolutely and the demons guy like you don't do it right you're you're gonna lose that hand I know you have to learn all you're just like oh that's the problem. 6000, yes please. So if a man strike a freeborn woman so that she lose her unborn child, he shall pay 10 shekels for her loss. 10 is if a woman died, his daughter should be put to death. Yeah. How even in this like ancient society. They're already thinking about is life, yeah, right. Like a fetus. That's right. That's right, because we have rights, yeah, the debate's going on already, but only 10 shekels, but that's interesting they were already thinking they're wrapping their head around that. Yes, please. Um, I did 122, which is, if a man violate the wife betrothed the child wife of another man who has never known a man and still lives in her father's house and sleep with her and be surprised, this man shall be put to death, but the wife is blameless. That's, that's refreshing, isn't it? Because we know from some laws and some cultures they're like, well, we're gonna play the, the rapist, and what were you wearing? Like, excuse me, what the hell, right? Do you see that kind, right? You see that kind of let's blame the victim mentality. This is pretty advanced. Like we're not gonna blame her at all. Well done. Well done, yes ma'am, please. Um, mine was 154. If a man be guilty of incest with his daughter, he shall be driven from the palace, and then a parenthesis exiled. Which now we don't drive them away. Now you just um get criminal offenses criminal charges against them kind of right, kind of interesting that that one doesn't end in death though. Some of these end in death they're like, oh, OK, you slept with your daughter. Yeah, that's the thing like like the river's gotta leave. Yes ma'am, in the back, please. Rent his boat to a sailor careless and the boat is wrecked or aground. The sailor shall give the owner of the boat boat compensation, and I feel like sometimes we're like we think of ancient civilizations as like. Right, which is not as advanced as that seems very reasonable. You, you, you screwed up my boat, buddy. What do you owe me? Yeah, nicely. Yes, ma'am, please. I did 117. If anyone failed to meet claim for debt and sell himself, his wife, his son, and daughter for money or give them a way to force labor, they shall work for 3 years in the house of the man who bought them or the proprietor, and in the 4th year they shall be separated. Human trafficking, wow, that's wild odd because there's nothing for the person who bought. Right, there's nothing, yeah, yeah, that's right. No kidding. Yes, ma'am, please. Oh, I did 110. If a sister of God is to open the tavern or into the tavern to drink, then this woman shall be burned to death. Ouch. So there's your lesson, ladies. Yeah, that would intrigue me because like yeah, I was about to say everybody else is just reading. If you open a bar, who's next on, on this side? Anybody over here who let's go back corner. Thank you. I picked number 128. 122 as well OK. Um, if a man takes a woman's wife, but not so. Uh, but I picked that one because I thought it was kind of still like relevant today. Do it again. So again, I miss what's what happens in the swim. Uh, if a man takes a woman to life but has no intercourse with her. Got it, yeah, and it's kind of relevant, isn't it like it's not really it's like an unspoken and like just like back then it would be like. Sure. Yeah, interesting. There you go, yeah, good one. Yes, sir, please. 97. Yeah, I mean, it just doesn't get any more fair than that, right? If you break another man's bone, sorry, you're gonna do it. There's not a lot of room for like accents, right? Or man or like, sorry, I didn't mean to. There you go. Who's next? Who hasn't gone yet? Who wants one? Going once. Going twice. Anybody else? All right, good job, guys. Uh, it's a code. It's the, can y'all do the day? I bet you all can do the 10 Commandments just about out out out of, uh, from memory as well. It's the societies that are trying to at some point sit down and establish, well, these, these are rules we need to figure out how these, how do we, how do we behave. What's the best way to behave? There comes a moment, I don't know if you guys have watched like Lost or Yellow Jackets, which is coming back season 3, come on Yellow Jay, where they like, where there's always like survivors of something or they're like people forced to like some situation and at some point someone has to go, well, I mean, I guess we should like come up with some, some rules. When y'all came to Shri and they handed you the student code of conduct. Did they like there's a hand. I know, I know that there's rules that cover everything out out in this world, our little community, and at some point somebody somewhere hopefully some students had a say in it that said, OK, these are, these are rules that we can all get along with. Same thing with, same thing with out there we go, we go one step further and we go, yes, these are some laws. Guys, I'm gonna read you a short story and then I'm gonna get you out of here. The short story I'm gonna start, even though it's sort of slightly out of, it's sort of slightly out of uh order, but you know, that never stopped us before. I'm gonna jump, it's a, it's a good one. I'm gonna jump into um. I'm gonna jump into some Edgar Allan Poe, but we're gonna come back next time I see you. We're gonna start with uh, uh, a few other places, but we'll be, we'll be the poll by then. You may have read it already, but if not, here's a, here's a nice reading. Like, like, it's good. I mean, I'm not gonna act it out. I'm just, I just like this. I was sometimes as I'm sometimes as I'm preparing my lecture, I go, Damn, Edgar Allan Poe is so good. And then I go, damn, we just need to listen to this out. I mean, the telltale heart, listen to the narrator. Tell me what you think of the narrator. Tell me what you think of the individual. Some of you know the story already, the individual who That's remember, remember my list of 6 questions that govern this class and one of them is, why do people commit crimes? Why do they commit crimes? The Tall Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe, William Wood's grade 6. It's true, yes, I have been ill, very ill. But why do you say that I've lost control of my mind? Why do you say that I am mad? Can you not see that I have full control of my mind? Is it not clear that I am not mad? Indeed, the illness only made my my mind, my feelings, my senses stronger, more powerful. My sense of hearing especially became more powerful. I could hear sounds as I've never heard them before. I heard sounds from heaven. I heard sounds from hell. Listen, listen, and I will tell you how this happens. You will see, you will hear how healthy my mind is. If you have to protest, it's the classic, you're kind of crazy and if you protest it, the more you protest, the more crazy you sound, right? Like, no, no, you got me all wrong. I just can't hear things because I'm crazy. It is impossible to say how the mind, how the idea first entered my head. There was no reason for what I did. I did not hate the old man. I even loved him. He had never hurt me. I did not want his money. I think it was his aunt. His gross old man, uh, his gross baby boomer eye. His eye was like the eye of a vulture, the eye of one of those terrible birds that watch and wait while an animal dies and then falls upon the dead body and pulls it to pieces to eat it. When the old man looked at me with his vulture eye, a cold feeling went up and down my back. Even my blood became cold and so I finally decided I had to kill the old man and close that eye forever. So you think I'm mad. The medical laugh, a madman doesn't plan, cannot plan, but you should have seen me during all that week. I was as friendly to the old man as I could be and warm and loving, and every night around 12 o'clock I slowly opened his door, and when the door was opened wide enough, I put my hand in and then my head and in my hand I held a light covered over with cloth so that no light showed. I stood that you think I'm the mad one, and I stood there quietly, then carefully. Did the cloth just a little. So that a single thin, small light fell across. For 7 nights, I did this, 7 long nights every night at midnight. Always the eye was closed, so it was impossible for me to do the work. To do the work, for it was not the old man I felt I had to kill. It was the eye. evil And every morning I went to his room and with a warm, friendly voice I asked him how had he slept. He could not guess that every night at 12 I had looked in on him as he slept. The 8th night I was more than usually careful as I opened the door. The hands of the clock moved more slowly than did my hand. Never before had I felt so strongly of my own power. I was sure now of the success. The old man was lying there, not dreaming that I was at his door. Suddenly he moved in his bed. You may think that I became afraid, but no, the darkness in his room was thick and black. I knew he could not see the opening of the door. I continued to push the door slowly, softly. I put in my head. I put in my hand with the covered light. Suddenly the old man sat straight up in bed and cried out to me, Who's there? I stood quite still for a whole hour. I did not move. Nor did I hear him again lie down in his bed. He just sat there listening. Then I heard a sound, a low cry of fear, which escaped from the old man. Now I knew he was sitting up in his bed filled with fear. I knew he knew that I was there. He did not see me. He did not hear me. He felt me there. Now he knew that death was standing there. Slowly, little by little, I lifted the cloth until a small, small light escaped from under it to fall upon to fall upon that vulture's eye. It was open wide, wide open, and my anger increased as it looks straight at me. I could not see the old man's face, only that I. And the blood in my body my body became like ice. Have I not told you that my hearing had become unusually strong? Now I could hear a quick low soft sound like the sound of a clock heard through the wall. It was the beating of the man's heart. I tried to stand quietly, and the sound grew louder. The old man's fear must have been great indeed. And as the sound grew louder, my anger became greater and more painful, and it was more than anger in the quiet night. In the dark silence of my bedroom, my anger became fear, for the heart was beating so loudly that I was sure someone must hear. The time had come. I rushed into his room, crying, Die, die. The old man gave a loud cry of fear as I fell upon him and held the bed covers tightly over his head. Still, his heart was beating. But I smiled as I felt the success was near. For many minutes, trigger warning, for many minutes, the heart continued to beat, but at last the beating stopped. The old man was dead. I took away the bed covers and held my ear over his heart. There was no sound. Yes, he was dead, dead as stone. His eye would trouble me no more. So I am mad you say? You should see how careful I was to put the body where no one could find it. First I cut off the head, then the arms, then the legs, and you call me mad. I was careful not to let a single drop of blood fall on the floor. I pulled up 3 pretty, pretty good. Those who going into the crime scene business. That's pretty impressive, not a single drop of blood. I pulled up 3 of the boards that formed the floor, and I put the pieces of the body there. Then I put the boards down again carefully, so carefully that no human eye could see that they had been moved. And as I finished this work, I heard that someone was at the door. It was now 4 o'clock in the morning but still dark. I had no fear, however, and I went down to open the door. 3 men were at the door. 3 officers, police. One of the neighbors has heard the old man's cry and called the police. These 3 came in to ask me questions and to search the house. I asked the policeman to come in. These guys are always so arrogant. They think they the cry, I said was my own, a dream. The old man, I said, was away. He had gone to visit a friend in the country. I took them through the whole house telling them to search it, search it all search anywhere they wanted. I led them finally into the old man's bedroom as if playing a game with them. I asked them to sit down and talk for a while. My easy, quiet manner made the policeman believe my story, so they sat talking with me in a friendly way. And although I answered them in the same way, I soon wished that they would go. My head hurts, and there was a strange sound in my ears. I talked more and faster. The sound became clear, and still they sat and talked. Suddenly I knew what the sound that the sound was not in my ears. It was not just inside my head. At that moment. I must have become quite white. I talked still faster and louder, and the sound too became louder. It was a quick, low sound like the sound of a clock. Through a wall, a sound I knew well, louder it became louder. Why did the men not go? Louder, louder. I stood up and walked around the room. I pushed my chair across the floor to make more noise to cover that terrible sound. I talked even louder and still the men sat and talked. The men sat, talked, and smiled. Was it possible they could not hear it? No, they heard. I was certain of it. They knew it. Now they were playing the game with me. I was suffering more than I could bear from their smiles and from that sound, louder, louder, louder. Suddenly I could bear it no longer. I pointed at the boards and cried, Yes, yes, I killed him. Pull out the boards and you shall see. I killed him, but why does his heart not stop beating? Why does it not stop? William Wood's grade 6, right? Come on. Hey, hey, listen, not bad. This is good stuff. This is as good. This is your teaser for next week as we get into the short fiction. Your teaser for next week because we think to ourselves, there's been a lot of good writers, a lot of good crime writers, and, uh, certainly Edgar Allan Poe is, is chief among them. Why, why does it not stop? Oh, you guys have been so good. Let's, let's do. Quick 2323 points and then I'll, I'll let you out of here. Clearly, what a protagonists. First, we have to always ask ourselves, is the, is the narrator reliable, right? We do this in fiction all the time. Do we believe him? I take him at his word. I take him at his word when he says, I think I'm smarter than everybody in the room. We see this again and again. Some of the great crime series of the document, you know, where they get, oh my gosh, have you guys seen Mind Hunter? Y'all know Mind Hunter? Come on, this kid gets in and interviews them all. John Wayne Gacy, you know, got, uh, uh, Charlie, uh, I mean just name him him, uh. Yeah, Manson, he gets to talk to all of them, and the thing that seems to, it's a fiction it's fiction, but it's based on a real guy who really did these, uh, interviews when they started doing profile the first time they started working on profiles. These guys all think they are like the smartest guy, this guy's like, I'll never be caught. I was so very careful with the crime scene, right? When a person tells you they're not crazy, usually they are, that's OK. It's one of those great arguments. You can't win. You drink too much, William. You drink too much. Oh wait, I can't win this argument. I hear voices that was not related by the white bookies. Sometimes it was. We don't even have a motive, really. What's the motive? What's he gonna kill him for? His eye, his creepy looking eye. There's something weird about that. He probably worked for the guy, right? There's something that set him off, something about he's not doing it for money. He's certainly not doing it for, he's not angry with him. Much it's just that weird looking like boarding house like maybe he's that saying at the boarding house. Does that feel right? He was staying with it, yeah, great uncle and he just, I don't know, it's gotta be something, yeah, you're feeling, you're feeling, you're feeling something maybe, maybe he was, yeah, somehow he can. I mean, and then he came and sat and looked at. Has anybody ever this is a personal, everybody, uh, I'm gonna withdraw that question. You're on I'll withdraw that. I was gonna ask, don't answer. Don't look at me. Don't raise your hand. I don't wanna know. But I was like, has anybody ever just like, do you know if anybody know like ever stared at you when you're asleep? Don't answer. I'll answer. Isn't it creepy? What the? What were you doing? I was watching you sleep. Why? So your eye opens up and I just remember you. Come on. The heart does keep beating into he's, he's clearly Poe is very, very good. You guys know all the great. We'll do, we'll do some more background Poe next week, but you know all the great stories, and he's like Poe is like a mad, like a madman himself and also brilliant. And said to have drank himself to death. Morphine, who knows all the craziness. I love all the pictures of him. Oh, there's a great, there's a great Poe movie now called Pale Blue Eyes. Anybody seen that one? He's at West Point. He's a kid, you know, Edgar Allan Poe went to West Point and, and he's a, he's a kid there at the time. I can't remember the rest of it, but Daniel Day Lewis is that you are neither hot nor cold, so I shall spit you out, right? And he's convinced he's safe. These guys always feel like I think I'm gonna make it. I think I'm safe. Y'all have done great. Thank you. If you had not signed the roll sheet which you came in a few minutes late, please do so. Next week, all the short fiction in the world. Catch up with the following. Are you ready? I'll give it to you as you go out the door. Oh, good Lord, there's so much. There's just so much. Chaucer's the Partner's Tale, The Adventure of the Speckle band, Edgar Allan Poe, Ernest Hemingway. Oh, it all comes back to Hemingway. Larry O'Connor, Joyce Carlos, I'm gonna show you a short clip from a film if I can figure out how to do that here. It's gonna be great. OK, guys, have fun. Have a great weekend. Be safe. Make sure you sign in. Are you guys send it out in an email or should I just go on the service? Which one? The readings, it's there. Don't look under the silver. You have to stay with that one. Good job. That's a good question. The eye, the eye, yes, ma'am, absolutely. How are you? Oh I'm good um the final exam. I got my. Oh congratulations. I mean, I hope it's OK for her. I hope it's not bad news. She would just say like Hammurabi's law. We said all that playing off. No, that's OK because of my class. Thank you. You've been my pleasure, sir. Doctor Grey wrote me back and said, good for you. He said he did. Where is he? Where is he in South Carolina? I think he's at a school called uh. I wanna say coastal bend, but I think that's a Texas school, so I must be wrong. Coastal sea buddy coastal bend. Yeah, he's so glad you're back. He was, uh, good. He was great. Yeah, I can't remember. I wrote. I wrote it. It was, it was Paradise Lost. Yes, you did, yeah. What was the analogy I did and I'm like this is brilliant and I got like it wasn't my best paper. I'm like. It's like it's like that's all right. What I came up with I'm like. So good I guess but I love him for it. Yes, I know, right? See, but. All right guys, those of you in TV Land, we're uh doing more short stories next week. We'll get caught up and, uh, have a great weekend. I just OK. So Mhm Topic I OK But since we get to it. Yeah. He's like 40 OK Basketball team. that they It's I can get the girls about OK So you didn't find One of them was like. 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