but do 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
it isn't the one who talks the most
you're an npr host hops okay
the literary person in here
is miss phillips she's the least of
strippers in this room
the quietest and 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 presently amateur number two
as a tennis
yet she chooses to hide or just blend in
with the rest of you
wife
why is that miss phillips
i
being in the middle is the safest place
to be
where do you come from
ohio ohio parents are geniuses by any
chance filthy rich
no well your dad wasn't your older boxer
was he
no no
how old were you when you read
i was two two well that's early it's
prodigious
any advantages literary home life
where's your father
well he 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 pure the realm
you're not the earl of oxford are you no
the wife are you better than the rest of
us
no you look at me
you are better than the rest of us if no
one told you yet you're a genius and an
artist let me be the first
okay i don't know if you can say that
because i think it's subjective man
i mean we all have something to offer
genius is magical not material if you
don't have the magic
no amount of wishing will make it so
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
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day
you