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00:14What does this mean?
00:17I don't understand what you're doing.
00:19The emoji, when you smile and do this.
00:22What's the context?
00:24Um, never mind.
00:26Come on, Mom. Just tell me.
00:27Well, it's something that felt rather sincere.
00:30Who sent it to?
00:31It's an undercut. It undercuts the meaning of the message, right?
00:34Could be.
00:35Or it could simultaneously reinforce the message.
00:39Or it's a dare.
00:41How?
00:41You know if you're, like, texting with someone, right?
00:43Say they, like, open a door to something,
00:45but then they're scared, so they undercut it with the emoji to make it safe.
00:48Like, I love you. LOL.
00:51Like, now they haven't really said it.
00:53And as a result, they've put it all in your court.
00:54My court.
00:56And then it's on you to find out if they really meant what they said.
00:58But people are fearful.
01:00Mm-hmm.
01:03Oh, why are you being so nice to me?
01:07Are you going running?
01:10Obviously.
01:32Oh, shit.
01:40That motherfucker.
01:42Court everything for your own service.
01:44Oh, hi.
01:44Flo told me you were meeting.
01:46Were you looking for me?
01:47No, actually.
01:47I was looking for, um, to schedule our subcommittee since we had to cancel last night.
01:52Oh, sorry.
01:53I had a therapist's appointment.
01:55Yeah, apparently I don't know how to read the shared calendar.
01:58Um, let's talk.
02:00Us?
02:00Yeah.
02:01Ah.
02:01We can keep checking in, okay?
02:03Yeah.
02:03Yeah.
02:04Thanks, David.
02:06Uh, do you want to just putting out the dates now, or...?
02:09Um...
02:18Later.
02:19When can I find you?
02:20I have a lot of emails.
02:23All right, David.
02:24Excuse me.
02:25Okay.
02:28I just need to get him alone, and then I'll know.
02:31Is the door, as they say, open?
02:45Yeah, close it.
02:47You need to talk?
02:48Mm-hmm.
02:52You've got to return the file.
02:54I don't know what you're talking about.
02:56You were in my office.
02:57There's a file missing from a box that I am supposed to hand in to the Title IX coordinator for
03:01the hearing.
03:03It pertains to Lila Green.
03:08It's very disorganized in here.
03:10By tomorrow.
03:11End of day.
03:12Please.
03:13I'm sorry you misplaced something.
03:14This is not going to go away, okay?
03:16And don't put me in this position.
03:18You missed a button.
03:21I know.
03:30Edwina.
03:31Hi.
03:33I turned in your letter.
03:42Are you kidding me?
03:43Ma'am, the deadline is the deadline.
03:45I have a chronic illness.
03:47I'm sorry, but this is not going to be part of the candidate's package.
03:51You're going to jeopardize the future of a student just because it's one day late?
03:55We did not jeopardize the future of the student, ma'am.
03:58Feel better.
03:59Well, I can't feel better.
04:01Do you not know the definition of chronic?
04:26I just don't think I can have a lot of double breasts.
04:28You can do it.
04:29You have great shoulders.
04:31It's not a front that I'm worried about.
04:34Oh, hi.
04:35Hi.
04:36Yeah, I wanted to see if I could help coordinate with Florence about our subcommittee.
04:41Yes, sorry.
04:42Any time before five that I'm not teaching, I'll make myself available.
04:47Available.
04:47Available.
04:48Great.
04:49I'll make a snack.
04:50Ooh, she makes great snacks.
04:52Well, I love a snack.
04:54Gluten-free.
04:55You remember everything.
04:58Okay, well, I will leave you two to...
05:02Bond.
05:05Wednesday at 3.15.
05:06I'm teaching.
05:07Thursday at 10.30.
05:08I'm teaching.
05:09Thursday afternoon.
05:10I teach then, too.
05:11Friday morning.
05:12It's okay if you can't come to the first session.
05:14I mean, we can take notes.
05:15Let's find a time that works.
05:16It's not a big thing.
05:17I'm trying to come.
05:18I want you to come.
05:19Let's circle back.
05:20Oh, absolutely.
05:52I want you to come.
05:59Oh, absolutely.
06:03You're good.
06:05Hmm.
06:06Hmm.
06:06Hmm.
06:07Hmm.
06:08Hmm.
06:10Hmm.
06:21Hmm.
06:42The only way you can finish a book is to delude yourself into thinking that Ed and you are
06:46utterly brilliant. Oh, this is quite good. I can't see it. Well, I got most of it out. It's a
06:56remnant.
06:56How'd you get this? From God. Where were you last night? A friend. You know those cock-sucking deer
07:04destroyed my whole garden. I'm sorry that happened. Marriage. I gotta use the needle. No, no, no. It'll
07:13work itself out. What are you guys doing? Oh, hi, honey. What are you doing? Uh, Alexis sent me some
07:19research on Dad's accuser. Are you talking to him? Alexis? Uh-huh. Did you know Lila Green has a
07:24substack? It's pretty... people have problems. Yes, yes, they do, honey. Um, I have something to tell
07:32you. You burned her file? I can't go back in time, so what do I do? Are you insane? Sid,
07:38I need
07:38forward movement, please. What is this? Well, now that you've done that, you have to go talk
07:44to her. There's no other option. What was that? I have one more possibility. What is your possibility?
07:50Is there no butter? This fridge looks like it belongs in a horror movie. But you're welcome
07:53to go to the grocery store. I hear they let everybody shop there. And honey, if for any reason
07:58it doesn't pan out, we'll talk to her tomorrow. Do you promise? I feel like you're on another
08:03planet these days. Will you come with me? Yes, I promise. Which one are you going to? I don't know.
08:08The one on
08:0819th? I don't know. Why? I have an errand. Hey, Dawn, I didn't realize it was you. John, remember?
08:18So, uh, adjuncting just isn't cutting it or what? Well, this is how I get my benefits. It's... I like
08:24it. I get 10% off groceries. But do I is the question. Oh, sorry. Tess. Oh, yes. This is
08:35my
08:35favorite novel. You know, I was listening to a podcast the other day. Did you know that
08:38Thomas Hardy wrote Tess of the D'Urbervilles because apparently he got an erection while
08:44watching a woman being hanged at a public execution? Oh, wow. Some say he wrote the
08:49entire book as an apology. That's awful. Can't be sure if the erection happened, but I love
08:55to think it happened. Human psyche. Fucking wild, right? Well, we've got to get you a second
09:02class. Yeah. Bye.
09:15How's this feeling? Jump, please. What?
09:20Get in the car. Hey, you forgot your phone. Oh, thanks, Dawn. Hi, Dawn. Excuse me. I'm
09:27working.
09:38Oh, have I mentioned that I... I haven't taken advantage of the agreement between John and myself
09:44for many, many years. Well, I have not. Not since... David. I brought you this.
10:03Why? Can we have one honest conversation before we die?
10:08I... I strive to have many. Good. Well, I loved you and you broke my heart. This is true.
10:19Oh, God. What? No. Okay. Okay. I was ready to leave my husband for you, David. I waited
10:28at that fucking train station for you. I waited for three hours and you never showed up.
10:35I couldn't do that to my daughter. Bullshit. You were just scared of getting
10:38into it with your wife. I didn't handle it the best.
10:40Then, I tried to have fucking coffee or herbal tea with you and you avoided me for a decade.
10:48Uh-uh. Okay. I mean, I'm a grown-up. I know closure is just a myth believed in by people
10:54under 30, but I gave you a lot of slack. What do you want?
11:00I don't have the file anymore.
11:02This is a terrible conversation. I hate this conversation.
11:06Please, can you cover for me, David? I... We fucked for three years. I mean, I thought
11:14we were in love.
11:15We were.
11:19You know, I was re-reading our old emails.
11:23Again? I thought you deleted them.
11:26Do you still have that cabin?
11:33I rent it out. Mostly in the summer or before it gets too cold. I'm trying to pay off Sid's
11:38loans. What are you asking?
11:41Nothing. Nothing. I just remember you in that doorway. That is an image as I get older that I am
11:52glad I have.
11:54And the file?
11:56I can't help you with that.
12:12Okay.
12:17Thank you so much for coming.
12:21Sure.
12:22So, um, my mom wanted to talk to you.
12:25This is my daughter.
12:26I know.
12:30Mom.
12:31Go ahead.
12:33Hi, Lila.
12:36Well, I wanted to apologize.
12:39For what?
12:40I am very sorry that you felt you had to drop out of school based on what you believe were
12:45my actions.
12:47Really?
12:48Mom.
12:48What?
12:49That's not an apology.
12:51Well, it's as much as I can muster.
12:53You retaliated.
12:54No, I didn't.
12:55Lila, Lila, I'm worried you're going into this blind.
12:58This hearing is not going to be an easy experience.
13:02Do you really want to put yourself through that?
13:05This is what you invited me here for?
13:07I'm concerned that you haven't thought this through.
13:10I'm concerned that you have yogurt on your shirt.
13:13And that your mother is a vindictive cunt.
13:16I'm sorry.
13:16No, no, no.
13:17She can say that.
13:18It's okay.
13:18You can say that.
13:20She liked to hold his penis in her hand, stroking the folds of his crinkled scrotum until he
13:26grew hard and impossible to ignore.
13:29Sid.
13:29What?
13:29This is your little internet porn journal.
13:32What are you doing?
13:33And even if you take it down in the next second, I've printed out copies of all the pervy little
13:37entries you've written.
13:38That's fiction.
13:39Please.
13:40She longed to have his cock inside her.
13:43No, Sidney, would you put your phone away?
13:44It didn't matter.
13:45Young ladies, stop it.
13:45I'm going to read every line of this out loud at the hearing.
13:47Oh, oh, no, we're not.
13:48No, Sidney, we do not prosecute someone on the fiction they write.
13:51Mom, stop living in fantasy land.
13:53This woman wants to bring you down.
13:54Oh, please.
13:55You think your parents don't have to face the consequences of their abuse?
13:59Abuse?
14:00I will not let you ruin their lives over something stupid you initiated over ten years ago.
14:07I'm leaving.
14:07No, Lila.
14:08You want to know who's a vindictive cunt?
14:10You want to?
14:11Who?
14:11Me.
14:12Me.
14:12I'm a cunt.
14:13I'm a cunt.
14:15Go fuck yourself.
14:16Why did you do that?
14:17Why didn't you apologize?
14:27Sidney.
14:28What?
14:31You're not a cunt.
14:40Oh, no, I forgot the coffees.
14:42I can go get them.
14:43No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
14:44Please.
14:45You sure?
14:46Mm-hmm.
14:46Okay.
14:48These are peanut butter, flaxseed, oatmeal date balls, gluten-free, no added sugar.
14:58Yum.
15:06Is that nice?
15:09Vlad, I want to talk to you about something.
15:14And she made it.
15:15Oh, I thought you were teaching.
15:16I gave them a group project.
15:17Ooh, balls.
15:19Mm.
15:20Mm.
15:21We strive to dismantle hierarchy so that students may be free to interrogate power dynamics.
15:26Well, I don't know about dismantle hierarchy.
15:28Pedagogy is hierarchy.
15:30But you could aim to be in a listening position.
15:33Well, I aim to be an engaged teacher and an expert in my subject.
15:36How does that help the students?
15:37Because they will learn something that will make them bigger and better human beings.
15:42I mean, if you succumb to this idea flow, the fucking knowledge, fucking knowledge and
15:47learning and culture and higher education as we know it is useless, then you succumb
15:51to the idea that all was supposed to be our transactional worker bees whose only purpose
15:55on this earth is to amass wealth or to chill out.
15:58I mean, it's so facile.
15:59So fucking facile.
16:01In my opinion, college is more environment.
16:04It's what you're exposed to.
16:05No, I think it's more than that because we are their guides.
16:09We are responsible for their souls.
16:11Really?
16:12Sorry, you should tell that to your husband.
16:15Jesus Christ, Florence, you can be such a bitch.
16:19Oh, that's inappropriate.
16:20I know.
16:21No, you're both being very inappropriate.
16:25I give everything to my students.
16:28Well, I don't know.
16:29Maybe you need to work on your boundaries.
16:34Passion between the sisters, that's all great.
16:36But I think you just need to expand on top of that.
16:43May I speak to you?
16:46Hey, we're just in the middle of something right now.
16:49Well, I wanted to...
16:52Oh, God, I feel so intensely awful.
16:54It looks like my letter bounced back.
16:57I mean, do you know if it went through?
16:59I'm so sorry.
17:01I feel like I've jeopardized your future.
17:04It's fine.
17:04Well, it is not fine.
17:06It's awful.
17:08I will do whatever I can to make it up to you.
17:10No, it's fine.
17:11Professor Tong turned it in.
17:13Oh, I'm not a professor.
17:16Oh, when?
17:17The night it was due.
17:18It was 11.
17:19I saw that it wasn't turned in yet,
17:21so I texted Cynthia.
17:23What?
17:24You wrote it that night?
17:26I sent her a draft.
17:28Sorry.
17:29We're just supposed to be meeting about her essay right now.
17:31Oh, God, thank you.
17:32Really, I'm so relieved.
17:33I...
17:34Oh, God, I thought I'd messed you up, Edwina.
17:37I...
17:37You're fine.
17:38I mean, you know how much stress
17:40I've been going through recently, so...
17:42Um...
17:42You're a student.
17:43You don't need to take on any of our stress, okay?
17:49We're in the middle of working on something.
17:55I'm...
17:56I'm sorry I let you down.
18:07I've never before in my life, Mr. Downs,
18:10the deadline for a recommendation letter.
18:25Lily, Selden, the house of mirth.
18:29They love each other, but they can't be together because...
18:33Society.
18:34Let's read.
18:36The only way I can help you is by loving you, Selden said in a low voice.
18:42She made no reply, but her face turned to him with a soft motion of a flower.
18:48His own met it slowly, and their lips touched.
18:51She drew back and rose from her seat.
18:55Selden rose, too, and they stood facing each other.
18:58Suddenly, she caught his hand and pressed it against her cheek.
19:03Ah, love me, love me, but don't tell me so.
19:11What is Wharton doing in this scene?
19:15He's gay.
19:17No.
19:19They want to love each other, but they can't.
19:22Yes, I said that, but what is Wharton doing in this scene?
19:25What kind of scene is this?
19:28Hint.
19:29This novel was written at the turn of the 20th century.
19:32You could be arrested for writing pornography.
19:35So, what kind of scene is this?
19:41Sorry, is it like a sex scene?
19:43Yes, it is.
19:44Thank you, Rose.
19:46Yeah, Wharton is giving us something steamy here, folks.
19:50So, what are the erotics of this passage?
19:54They kiss.
19:55Don't give me the plot.
19:56Look into the words, the syntax.
19:58His voice is low.
20:00What could that mean?
20:02He's soft-spoken.
20:04He's an introvert.
20:05Mm-hmm.
20:09He's aroused.
20:17Right.
20:19Right.
20:21Her face turned to him with a soft motion of a flower.
20:27Okay, soft motion.
20:30Like gentle rocking.
20:33Of a flower.
20:34She's...
20:36She's opening.
20:37She's opening like what?
20:40Flower.
20:42What does a flower resemble?
20:45The female anatomy.
20:48Selden Rose.
20:51What identifiable feature of a man might rise?
20:55I'm not saying this to be dirty.
20:58I am saying that in a repressed world like this, every single word carries more meaning than you think.
21:16This is as close to consummation as we're ever going to get.
21:21I love Edith Wharton.
21:23I love Edith Wharton.
21:25But that's not actually what happens.
21:29What do you mean, Aaron?
21:30You just made all that up.
21:32You don't have to read it in that way.
21:34Well, yes.
21:35Of course I made it up.
21:37But do you understand what I mean when I say that we all, Aaron, even you, have a body?
21:47I don't understand that at all.
21:51That was fun.
21:53Oh, what made you come?
21:57Well, I was feeling bad about the other day and, you know, I know you're going through a lot.
22:03Oh, well, I like to think so.
22:06It's John's hearing it's coming up, right?
22:08Mm-hmm.
22:09What's your take?
22:12I don't do takes.
22:13I just want to see how you are.
22:15Actually, Vlad, I wanted to ask you something.
22:18Hit me.
22:21Well, not that hard.
22:22Oh, you know what?
22:24Never, never mind.
22:27You know you can be very hard to read.
22:30Yeah, I get that a lot.
22:34I'm, uh, I'm almost done with your book.
22:36Really?
22:37Yeah.
22:38I wanted to see if, I don't know, maybe you wanted to schedule the reciprocal lunch.
22:43Oh, sure, sure, sure.
22:45Um, this weekend?
22:48Um, weekends, weekends are tough.
22:50Oh, oh, okay.
22:52Um, uh, next week?
22:55How about Monday after next?
22:57Study day.
22:58Monday, uh, study day.
23:01Um, hmm.
23:03Uh, study day.
23:06That's, um...
23:08Or after Thanksgiving?
23:09No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
23:11See you then.
23:13Cool.
23:15I'll go this way.
23:16I'll go this way.
23:18I'll see you later.
23:19Okay.
23:20If he looks back, he loves me.
23:32Uh, come in.
23:35Do you have a second?
23:41Come in.
23:44We have a problem.
23:50Come in.
23:57Um...
24:02Hey.
24:05What is it?
24:19Guys, this afternoon the tenured faculty took a vote.
24:24There's no easy way to say this.
24:26Well, just utter the words.
24:28We're asking you to step down from teaching.
24:42Why?
24:47We're all so tired and sick of all the stupid pricks.
25:02Cause life is such a mess in this place.
25:04It makes me super stressed.
25:06Cause life is such a mess in this place.
25:08It makes me super stressed.
25:13I don't wanna deal with these people no more.
25:17I'm biting my nails.
25:18I'm biting my nails more than before.
25:20I'm biting my nails.
25:21I'm biting my nails more than before.
25:23Cause life is such a mess.
25:25This life is such a mess.
25:27This life is such a mess, and this face makes me super stressed
25:30I don't wanna deal with these people anymore, I don't wanna deal with these people anymore
25:57This life isn't essential, ainda dangerous
26:02I don't wanna deal with this life
26:02And this life is such a mess, it doesn't just take a deep breath
26:07And this life
26:07Cause we like to halt it
26:07And I wanna deal with these people
26:08That inactive people's life
26:08You know, this one
26:08Maybe——
26:11You
26:11know you You
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