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First public notice that was ever made of Shakespeare was from a grub Street writer Robert Greene who called him an upstart crow beautified

With our feathers in the book

In the book under that title on the board is the beautified feather thing because Greene knew that Shakespeare was the Earl of Oxford

Absolutely, not not even close I

The Earl of Oxford published poetry, okay, and it wasn't any good

I mean it Oxford been able to get a play put on he had a broken leg to do it

I mean, can you think of any human being that would for any reason not put his name on Hamlet?

The Oxfordian thing the anti-stress 14 thing what pisses people off about Shakespeare

What lies behind every controversy about Shakespeare?

is range

range over the nature an

unequal distribution of talent

Rage that genius appears where it appears for no material reason at all

Desiring a thing

Cannot make you have it

Now the trouble with writing if I may bring it up here in the English department

As we all do a little over from time to time

writing and some of us start to think

delusionally

Maybe with a little time a little piece a little money in the bank

can you get that room your own you think well shit I

Might be a writer too. I

Mean we accept genius in sports as something we cannot do

But it's no more likely that you could be a writer that you could be what an Olympic pole-vaulter

Because what you have to be before you try to be a pole-vaulter

Hello is a pole vaulter? No

Yeah, you are one a pole vaulter a novelist. No. I am NOT for me to be a novelist

I would have to make a deal with myself that it was, okay

Being a mediocrity in a profession that died commercially in the last century. All right, people do that

I'm not one of them if you take away nothing else from my class from this experience. Let it be this

If you're not a genius

Don't bother. All right, the world needs plenty of electricians and a lot of them are happy

I'll be fucked if I'll be a midlist novelist getting good reviews from the people I give good reviews to

Let's have a look at Dexter Dexter I

Don't want an area looking young man

what size 40 jacket regular features and

Decent dentition is the second-ranked collegiate tennis player in the United States of America

How'd that come about Dexter you come from tennis family? I?

Mean I started playing five years ago in high school cuz the tennis guys are the best weed

After you started to tell us how long was it before you better than everybody before I was better than everybody before I knew it

What happened when you noticed you were naturally better than everybody?

I'm not interested in the game. That is an IQ break point brother

Right there. Do you remember Machiavelli? That would have been in September? I?

Can remember September, all right, is it the game brother or the money?

Huh where to a farmer fame of virtue? What are you after don't go modest on me you want. Oh,

Hey you got ambitious. Yeah, I realized as I learned about the game that I was in reaches in reach of

Didn't reach

Highest level

Highest level yeah

highest level

But still a gamble, isn't it?

Look, I'm a literature teacher. I can't write well him to bother. I just don't bother whichever whichever it is

There'll be no apotheosis around here. There'll be no Wai puto Dale's feel around here

That's what the improvers phase-in said on his deathbed dear me. I think I becoming a god

But you know who does right at the highest level when most of us and even I even I write barely adequately

Do you know who it is in this room? Who is it?

Don't give me that look no no no, no, no. No, it isn't the one who talks the most. You're an NPR who's tops? Okay

the literary person in here

Is Miss Phillips

She's Elise obstreperous in this room

The quietest in the only one

Who can have a real career at letters? Some of you can have one perceptually?

only she

Can have one in reality?

She is better at writing

Than our us personally. Amateur. Number two is a tennis yet. She chooses to hide or just blend in with the rest of you

Why?

Why is that miss Phillips

Being in the middle is the safest place to be what do you come from?

Ohio Ohio parents of geniuses by any chance filthy rich

No, well, your dad wasn't the Earl of Oxford was he no, no

How old were you when you read I

Was to June. Well, that's early. It's prodigiously any advantages literary home life

What's your father

Well, you worked in a factory well your mother

What she was an alcoholic she

was insane

But wasn't your dad I don't see how this is pertinent

No money

No advantages, no peer of the realm

You're not the Earl of Oxford. Are you No?

No, why are you better than the rest of us?

No, you look at me

You are better than the rest of us if no one's told you get your genius in an artist

Let me be the first. Okay, I don't know if you can say that

Cuz I think it's subjective man. I mean we all have something to offer

bullshit

Genius is magical. Not materially

If you don't have the magic no amount of wishing will make itself

Miss Phillips

If you plan to continue to come to my class you sit in the front where you belong but don't bother showing up

Have a nice day