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[Assistant] Woodland plants sprang up profusely in its recesses. Unnumbered varieties of moss filled its hollows, and it made a strange ground sunshine out of the wealth of its wild primrose plants.


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[Assistant] For this unwonted liberty and pleasure, there was a cause to which it now becomes my task to advert.


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[Assistant] Have I not described a pleasant sight for a dwelling when I speak of it as bosomed in hill and wood and rising from the verge of a stream? Assuredly pleasant enough, but whether healthy or not is another question.


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[Assistant] That forest dell, where Lowood lay, was the cradle of fog and fog-bred pestilence, which quickening with a quickening spring crept into the orphan asylum, breathed typhus through its crowded schoolroom and dormitory, and ere May arrived, transformed the seminary into a hospital.


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[Assistant] Semi-starvation and neglected colds had predisposed most of the pupils to receive infection. Forty-five out of the eighty girls lay ill at one time. Classes were broken up.


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[Assistant] Rules relaxed. The few who continued well were allowed almost unlimited license, because the medical attendant insisted on the necessity of frequent exercise to keep them in health.


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[Assistant] And had it been otherwise, no one had let her to watch or restrain them.


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[Assistant] Miss Temple's whole attention was absorbed by the patients. She lived in the sick room, never quitting it except to snatch a few hours rest at night.


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[Assistant] The teachers were fully occupied with packing up and making other necessary preparations for the departure of those girls who were fortunate enough to have friends and relations able and willing to remove them from the seat of contagion.


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[Assistant] Many, already smitten, went home only to die. Some died at the school and were buried quietly and quickly, the nature of the malady forbidding delay.


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[Assistant] All Usher really had to do was add up the various ages of the patriarchs, because the Bible tells us what age each person was when his son was born. So for example, Genesis 5 tells us that Adam was 130 years old when his son Seth was born. Seth was 105 years old when his son Enosh was born.


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[Assistant] He's looking around, you see, you make eye contact and you just roll over.


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[Assistant] Ironically, to study life span, you need to find animals that live and die quickly.


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[Assistant] In Gordon Lithgow's lab, they look at how the genes of a tiny worm called the nematode control its lifespan.


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[Assistant] These worms usually live for 20 days.


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[Assistant] So the lab breeds worms that have had one of their genes changed or mutated. Most of the mutations are harmful to the worm.


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[Assistant] But just occasionally changing a single gene has an astonishing effect.


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[Assistant] It enhances the worm's self-repair mechanisms and enables it to live much longer.


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[Assistant] And we're not talking about creating a new kind of organism. We're talking about activating genes that are already here, prodding them, getting them to activate. And these genes, these genes are in us as well.


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[Assistant] It's now possible to breed worms that can live six times longer than normal.


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[Assistant] The next step is to move on to mammals. First mice and then, maybe, humans.


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[Assistant] Biologists here, and all over the world, may be on the way to cracking the secrets of aging.


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[Assistant] Perhaps, at long last, we should be taking very seriously the idea that we could live a lot longer than we do now.


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[Assistant] But that raises another question. How much time do we need? 150 years? 200 years? How much time are we going to get with this new kind of technology?


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[Assistant] Because we don't just want more time but more time when we are young and healthy.


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[Assistant] We need to postpone aging to drink from the fountain of youth.


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[Assistant] And there is one scientist, a theoretical biologist from Cambridge, who believes that even this may be possible.


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[Assistant] Aubrey deGray's theory is based not on merely slowing the aging process down. He's confident that we can actually reverse it.


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[Assistant] He believes by the time this girl's generation reaches their 50s, science could have discovered how to rejuvenate them.


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[Assistant] DeGray believes that his theory could become a reality because right now biology is on a roll.


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[Assistant] Worldwide, hundreds of biologists are searching for aging cures. And they're starting to find answers.


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[Assistant] If he's right, it would only be freak accidents that would prevent full blown immortality.


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[Assistant] Humans living for a couple of thousand years?


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's have some wishful thinking. Just imagine for the moment that Aubrey de Grey is right.


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[Assistant] In some near future, science has developed the elixir of life.


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[Assistant] A potion that will completely cure aging and keep you young forever.


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[Assistant] Imagine for the moment being able to stop the clock, being 18, 25, 35, all over again. Wouldn't that be absolutely incredible? However, I warn you, there's one question still unanswered about immortality, and that is, would you drink this?


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[Assistant] I'm happy right now. So yes, I guess I will drink this elixir of life.


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[Assistant] I was surprised that more young people didn't want to drink from the elixir of life. But then again, young people think they're Peter Pan. They live forever. Just wait till they're seven years of age and they feel their mortality. But as for me, would I drink from the fountain of youth? Sure.


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[Assistant] In my next slice of time, I'm going to be searching for our place in time. Just how old is the earth? And where do we fit in?


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[Assistant] So if I want to look at what A minus lambda I is. Now, I is the identity matrix.


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[Assistant] If I multiply it by lambda, it's gonna be all lambdas. So in other words, this is gonna look like


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[Assistant] We don't even usually write down this intermediate step, we just go right for our goal, which is 3 minus lambda, 0, 1, 2 minus lambda. So there we go, we have that matrix.


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[Assistant] So in other words, if I want to come along here and compute the determinant, the thing I'm computing the determinant of is this matrix, this 3 minus lambda, 0, 1, 2 minus lambda.


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[Assistant] And I know how to take a determinant of a 2x2 matrix. It's just going to be the main diagonal minus the off diagonal. So this is going to give me 3-lambda


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[Assistant] times 2 minus lambda, and then the off diagonal is 0 times 1, so I don't even subtract anything in the subtraction of the off diagonal. And what we are asserting here


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[Assistant] And I've chosen a nice simple example where that means that there's only two different possible roots to this equation. It means that my lambda is equal to 2, or it means that my lambda is equal to 3. This equation that we have down here, by the way, where we've


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[Assistant] Taking the determinant of a minus lambda, and we've set it equal to zero, this is often referred to as the characteristic equation.


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[Assistant] Now I want to figure out how do I get eigenvectors.


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[Assistant] So, let's go back to our original equation, namely the a minus the lambda i times the vector x is equal to zero.


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[Assistant] Okay, so let's just plug in one of these values. How about we choose lambda equal two first? For no special reason, I'm just gonna put it in. And let's fire it into there. So what do we get? I get...


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[Assistant] 3 minus 2. Notice that this is the matrix that I'm doing right over here. There's my matrix. So I'm putting in 3 minus 2, 0, 1, 2 minus 2.


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[Assistant] And then I'm setting x is equal to zero. And if we wished we could compute out this, this is going to be


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[Assistant] Multiplied by the vector x. I want that equal to zero. Now this is just a-


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[Assistant] Easy 2x2 system, I can try to figure out what all the different possible solutions are to them, and I'm just gonna do it by inspection. I'm gonna note that my vector x is gonna be any multiple of the vector 0,1.


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[Assistant] So some particular s, and then the vector 0, 1. If you wish, you could reduce the matrix and you could see that this was going to work, or you could just multiply by the 0, 1 and notice it has the property that it's going to be equal to 0.


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[Assistant] It's somewhat customary here to only refer to the so-called standard one, the one that just clearly comes out if you're gonna go and do your Gaussian elimination, and even though every scalar multiple of it that's non-zero is qualified as an eigenvector, we usually just use 0, 1.


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[Assistant] That corresponds to the Pacific eigenvalue of lambda equal to 2. Now,


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[Assistant] You'll recall that what we had done in here was chosen lambda equal to 2 when we said what eigenvectors correspond to lambda equal to 2.


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[Assistant] But let's repeat exactly the same computation, but this time for the other eigenvector, either eigenvalue rather, lambda equal to 3.


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[Assistant] Alright, so if I'm going to do this, I'm going to have the equation 3 minus 3, 0, 1, 2 minus 1, all of that times x is equal to 0.


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[Assistant] In other words, I'm going to have a 0, 0, 1, minus 1 times the vector x is equal to the zero vector. And if you want to go through the


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[Assistant] Full process of trying to solve this homogeneous system of equations, you can do that, usually easy enough to go by inspection and note that, hey, the vector 1, 1 works. So I'll take vector x, and I'm going to say that this is equal to 1, 1, or any scalar multiple s of it. And so we're going to again assert that 1, 1 is an eigenvector


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[Assistant] But this time, it's for the value of lambda equal to 3. And I've chosen the canonical one, although of course, any non-zero stretching of it would work as well.


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[Assistant] So, if I go back and look at the entire process here, there were two major phases. Step one,


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[Assistant] Was using the determinant to figure out what the eigenvalues were.


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[Assistant] I want to note that these results match the geometric results that we've seen previously. Indeed, this was what we'd previously seen in the previous video, and we'd seen that the basis vector, the e2, the 0,1, that it stretched by a multiple of 2,


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[Assistant] This is exactly what we just computed algebraically, that we have these two eigenvalues, the 2 and the 3. So a stretching by 2 and a stretching by 3.


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[Assistant] And that the stretching by 2 occurs in the line that's going straight up, that's going through the vector 0,1, and that the stretching by 3 occurs along the line that goes through 1,1. And so our algebraic and our geometric intuitions have lined up, which is always wonderful to have.


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[Assistant] I fired five shots into the man. Mack into him. Killing him


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[Assistant] Purple like, uh, lavender or dark purple like violet.


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[Assistant] Can I, can I have the talking stick? Can I actually, can I have the talking stick? I want that. I asked for it first. I asked for it first! I-I'm Jerry. Hi Jerry.


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[Assistant] Maybe I shouldn't say this, but I didn't do it.


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[Assistant] Love is accounted brief and passing, while wealth is dependable and long.


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[Assistant] If I do what I'm supposed to do, people gonna look back like, man, remember dude, you used to just make beats for people?


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[Assistant] Souls go to their dooms in flame.


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[Assistant] But the one that has eluded me that I've always wanted to get my hands on is a Duesenberg.


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[Assistant] When you went to Duesenberg, you bought a chassis, it had a hood on it, a grill, it had fenders, but you then took it to a coach builder. A designer would design your body, your interior, they would build that. And once it was finished, that's the year it was registered. Duesenberg was only around from 1913 to 1937.


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[Assistant] And to this day, it is still the pinnacle of a luxury car. Now the Duesenberg was a large car.


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[Assistant] And it had three different wheelbases. There was a 125 inch wheelbase, a 142 and a half, and a 153 and a half inch wheelbase. Not knowing what I'm gonna get, I'm gonna start with the center one. I actually like the proportion of that car, and that's what I would hope that I would get to work with.


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[Assistant] The diameter of the tires was about 33 inches tall, and when you look at a 125 inch wheelbase, which is a very large wheelbase,


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[Assistant] Compared to the cars that you buy today, you know, it's probably close to a Cadillac Escalade and the tire diameter is about the same size. So when you look at it, it actually looked kind of short. So I want the longer wheelbase because we can get a much more elegant looking car with that. What I would love to do is get my hands on one


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[Assistant] Strip it back to what you only got originally from the factory.


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[Assistant] And then be the designer and the coach builder myself. I have no idea what I would do with one yet. It would be based on what we got our hands on. So today, we might look at a few cars, do a couple loose sketches, and then maybe take one to a much finer finished sketch.


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[Assistant] What I'm doing right now is I'm getting the proportion of the car and I'm using the tires themselves to get those proportions.


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[Assistant] I just drew a circle around the back tire and I pulled that all the way forward and it's just about six full tires to get the proportions of that 142.5 inch wheelbase. So I'll come back over here and I will draw that same proportion


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[Assistant] I don't know if I'm going to draw a convertible or a coupe, four door or a two door. So I may generate several different ideas before I nail down a proposal of a different design.


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[Assistant] Like I said before, I would like to start out with the fenders that Duesenberg had.


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[Assistant] Use their hood, their grill, everything. Basically just design the body, all the moldings, and all the details of what this car might be.


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[Assistant] They were truly a piece of art. You know, everything that they built was beautiful pieces of equipment. You know, it was, every part was designed and the aesthetics of it were gorgeous. And what I would really love to do is soften it up and make it look a little more voluptuous and much more uh, sexy?


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[Assistant] What I'm doing right now is just what I call ideation sketches. And all these are is just to get some rough ideas of which direction I might want to go. I'm really liking a two door.


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[Assistant] With the swoopy design through the door in the quarter and maybe the glass playing off of that idea and the chrome trim, there's a rhythm to all the lines. And where I'm going right now is


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[Assistant] You can see there's just a couple rough sketches, but I'm really liking what I've got going here. I'm gonna play around with that design as the next one.


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[Assistant] The other thing I want to do is soften that running board instead of just this flat running board. I think the running board wants to have just a little bit of a lazy, soft look. And then we can change the front fender as well and soften that so it's running right into the running board. Rather than coming down and just radiusing into a flat running board, I want to make that one line.


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[Assistant] The biggest challenge with a car like this is it's so big and so heavy, you structurally have to build everything to withstand that weight. You know, we're a smaller car, you can get away with much smaller components. You have to design and build everything to hold the weight of a car this size.


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[Assistant] Specifically the areas that you would notice that in is areas like door gaps.


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[Assistant] And panel fit, because you can put the whole car together, build everything without a motor and transmission and all of a sudden you put a motor and tranny in it.


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[Assistant] And the chassis sagging, now all the panels at the top are hitting.


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[Assistant] You have to build everything strong enough so that nothing is going to flex and cause these issues later down the road.


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[Assistant] Alright, I've got a line drawing here. I'm just gonna throw some gray colors in here to give it some proportions because it's much easier to see when I get the proportions. Now the changes that I made to this is I kept


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[Assistant] This line, which is familiar, a few of the Duesenbergs had that, but I've changed it. It's actually pulled down tighter and further back. Uh, I actually dropped the doors, continued that chrome trim back and what I've done on the top, I've never seen it, is


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[Assistant] This line coming down the center of the hood would be the chrome trim around the windshield. It would also be the chrome on top of the door, which would be running into


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[Assistant] This balances the radiuses of the other lines. It's kinda like music, you want all of your


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[Assistant] Shall we say notes to have a rhythm to them?


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[Assistant] You want a rhythm to your line work also. If everything's kind of soft and radius and then all of a sudden you've got a hard line,


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[Assistant] Crashing through them, it just doesn't work with all the other lines. So any quality of line that you're using as the basic design of the car, I try to bring that line throughout the whole design.


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[Assistant] I haven't even thought about what colors I would do the car. I'm just using the gray tones as a proportioning tool, looking at, uh, whether it's two-toned. And if I were doing this for a customer, I would do, I would make a Xerox copy of the line drawing and then I would probably do five or six different, uh, value scales and


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[Assistant] Where I've got it dark here, it might be light on the next one, and just play around with what we can possibly do with the car.


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[Assistant] What I'm doing right now is I've got white gouache in here, which is an opaque watercolor, and I'm just indicating some highlights of where the sun might beat on this, and bringing the spokes up to the surface, because I just drew the shadows in behind. And I can highlight where all the chrome trim would be.


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[Assistant] Try and make it look like it's reflective surfaces and just little white lines and dots can make that happen.


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[Assistant] Here's my idea of a new Duesenberg. This is the first sketch of, you know, if I were going to build this car, I already know looking at this that I would make some changes. I don't like how low this is. I would probably pull that up and make a few changes, but I love the chrome detail around the top.


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[Assistant] This arc coming around the glass, I may change that a little bit, but I wanted those two arcs to mimic each other.


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[Assistant] And then just the convertible canvas part would fold down into the, into the trunk area.


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[Assistant] But, uh, it's all about just flowing design lines. This line coming through with these lines, everything's mimicking that front fender and carrying them stacked with the same marks. It's all about really soft, voluptuous lines, trying to make the Duesenberg look a little softer than what we're familiar with.


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[Assistant] If a gentleman were to bring his Dusenberg in, I would want to retain all of the mechanicals, the wheels, everything, headlights, taillights, just as if we built this car in the thirties.


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[Assistant] Every single piece of that car is a piece of artwork. So the grill, the hood, the spare tire cover.


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[Assistant] The only thing I'm really changing as far as bodywork that would be something that you would get from Duesenberg is the fenders. I would keep the top half and front half of the fender, but this is a much swoopier line. The original Duesenberg came down a little sharper, had a tight turn, and then a straight running board.


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[Assistant] Now the running board would be painted with a couple chrome strips on it. So if you were to step on the running board, you're stepping on chrome, you're not scratching paint.


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[Assistant] I want to make the car look better than the drawing, so a lot of decisions are made while we're building it. I'll get the basics down, we'll start building it, but I make all those decisions based on the three dimensional car, not a two dimensional drawing.


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[Assistant] The only problem with this is I don't have the real car out there so that I can start actually building it. This is my idea of what could possibly be done with a Duesenberg.


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[Assistant] Every Duesenberg was a custom built car. This would be the same thing. It's just a little bit different, but I wouldn't want anybody to walk up and think that it was done today. I would want people to walk up to this car and think that it was done in the thirties. I don't want it to be a modern car. It's a piece of drivable art that could have been built at any time. That's what makes it timeless.


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[Assistant] Mike Pence will take the vice presidential oath of office, administered by Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in what will be the closest Pence has ever stood to a black man.


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[Assistant] It says, you know, there are four American bastards. We killed two of them. Then how many American bastards left to care? And as a child, I had to say two American bastards. And that was my education.


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[Assistant] Yes, so I am the kind of person where I like to crack codes. I like formulas, I like algorithms, and so this is taking a lot of the fuzzy people skills that are out there, like...


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[Assistant] People say be yourself or be authentic where I wanna break it down into a science. So if that's you, if you're someone who's like, I need to have the black and white, that is what this book is. It's sort of a textbook to people, if you will.


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[Assistant] Can I add a little bit of my own science? So I run a lab in Portland, Oregon, and we try to add big data to things. So we will do huge surveys or we'll test some of these hypotheses to see does it actually work for real business professionals, not just college seniors, which are most of the people in academic studies.


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[Assistant] Yes. So I love puzzles. I love looking for people puzzles. Um, so one of the things that we talk about in the book is we analyze thousands of hours of Ted Talks. Um, I wanted to see if there was anything about virality of Ted Talks, specifically with the body language research. So there's all this really interesting body language research on hand gestures and power posing and smiling.


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[Assistant] And I wanted to know, does that actually translate when it comes to a real video? So we found that, for example, one of the things we found is that the most popular TED Talkers, we analyzed all the TED Talks from 2010.


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[Assistant] So almost half, and that backs up the academic research on hand gestures. So just an interesting take on


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[Assistant] In a way, it's like anchoring for the listener. So they're speaking to you on two tracks with their words and what they're, with their words and their non-verbal. So it's, those are the very charismatic speakers and that was an interesting way to think about the research on hands.


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[Assistant] Yes, so I've always been fascinated with branding, as we have talked about in Geeked Out for many hours, and I realize that we have all this robust personality science and


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[Assistant] There's a lot of things out there like Myers-Briggs or Enneagram and that's not, there's not a lot of science behind it.


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[Assistant] The one that's used by academic universities all over the world is the big five. So uhm, that's openness, conscientiousness, extroversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.


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[Assistant] So I looked at this science and I'm like, okay, the science is great, but how do we use this? And I realized that the most powerful brands, the brands that get really good conversions, really high click rates, have what I call personality indicators. They don't maybe realize they're doing this. What they're doing is they're saying, okay,


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[Assistant] How do I signal to that person that we are for you? And I realize that if you take personality and you add it to branding, that's how you get really viral marketing campaigns that fits very well with the Hooked model with triggers and rewards.


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[Assistant] Perfect. So here's a really common example that I see. So I'll use my brand as an example. So we do data. We love science. Our courses and our workshops are very step heavy, right? Like it's frameworks and lots of bullet points.


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[Assistant] So I realized that in my marketing, if I have uhm, what I call low conscientious branding, so conscientiousness is one of the personality traits that has to do with details. So if you're low in conscientious, if you're high in conscientiousness, you love


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[Assistant] Details, steps, schedules, to-do lists. That would be me. You're usually a researcher. If you're low in contentiousness, you like big ideas. You like strategy. You like broad strokes.


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[Assistant] So in my marketing a fatal mistake I made on my landing pages was I was promising big ideas. So I would say things like, you know, change the way you interact with people.


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[Assistant] After the first five chapters, you'll learn this. After the second five chapters, you'll learn this. We have 500 citations, 300 pages of this.


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[Assistant] I think, and this is just me, I actually don't think it's a chicken and the egg problem. I actually think that you should start with the kind of audience that you want. Specifically buying customers. So I think that there are two different kinds of customer personas.


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[Assistant] There are non-buying customer personas, so those are the people who are dabblers in your products. They might read your blog, they might follow you on social media, but they're probably not gonna buy.


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[Assistant] Uhm, they might not be recommending you to friends. And then there are buying personas or committed personas. Those are the ones that are like your champions or the really dedicated fans. They click on everything you do.


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[Assistant] They might even buy without even seeing your full promo or your full product.


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[Assistant] I think it's better to think about what are the buying personas and how can you appeal to them more as opposed to trying to do it the other way around. I think that's more powerful. I think that's the same thing for Hooked, right?


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[Assistant] So it's interesting you mention rewards and testing it. So let's take a really specific example. So let's say that you have, you want really high agreeable customers. So agreeableness is how you relate to people, how much you cooperate, how much you like teams.


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[Assistant] I agree with people, they default to yes. They typically are like, yeah, I can make it work. They're, uhm, they sometimes even say yes to their own detriment.


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[Assistant] Low-agreeable people are default to no. They're highly analytical. They typically, they're the ones who like Google research what you say. They're a little bit more skeptical, a little more slow to adopt. So if you want a high-agreeable person, someone who loves teamwork,


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[Assistant] A reward for a high-grilled person is going to be more about the team.


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[Assistant] So a great reward for them would be a gift to their social network. Or an offer to their friends. Or making them, giving them a giveaway to give out to their people.


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[Assistant] That would not appeal to a low agreeable person. In fact, if you ask a low agreeable person, if you give them five books to give away, or five of your free products, they're like,


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[Assistant] I don't stand behind this product. I don't want to give this to friends. Whereas a high agreeable person is like, ooh, you gave me social capital. You gave me something I can spread. So that's a very different reward. A reward for a low agreeable person might be something specifically for them. So maybe it's a badge for them.


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[Assistant] Right? So they personally get to elevate their score. Or maybe it's, uhm, a, uh, a free month for them. Right? Like, that's gonna appeal much more to them because it's more individual-centric versus community-centric.


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[Assistant] Yeah, so I, when I encourage people, entrepreneurs, you do customer interviews, right? You do customer validation.


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[Assistant] One of the best things you can do is in that customer validation have them take the free personality test.


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[Assistant] If you really also want to make sure that you're getting an accurate one, you can also ask people to send it to their best friend or their spouse or their colleague to take it as them.


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[Assistant] So one little thing, a little note of caution here is I've asked thousands of people to take our personality test. I think we have like 19,000 people who have taken that personality test.


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[Assistant] Then you actually want them on their best day, because you can see, wow, okay, this person is, let's say, openness, for example. People are high and open, they're very adventurous, very creative, they like trying new ideas.


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[Assistant] If someone ranks medium high on openness on their best day, you know that they are aspiring to be more adventurous. As a coach or as a service provider, you would be better off saying, that is something I want to help you with.


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[Assistant] So depending on where you're going, that can actually be an interesting way to appeal with your services.


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[Assistant] You have to build and test. That landing page is an example. Like I thought I had an idea of my, of my students, but I actually really didn't. So when I have this landing page and I'm watching our numbers and they're not as good as they should be, I was able to slowly start adding things to the page and watch the conversion numbers change. And I found the more details I added, the more students who bought and less refunded.


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[Assistant] I'm like, how can I signal this earlier? So not only did our conversion rate go up, but our refund rate went down.


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[Assistant] And so that's also an aspect of this is it's not just your opt-ins, it's also your conversions and your...


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[Assistant] You're just trying to save your time. You don't want to get stuck with a gentleman.


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[Assistant] No you won't. You like being up on that pedestal too much.


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[Assistant] So tell me, when are you seeing Loverboy again?


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[Assistant] Ask, uhm, about if there's, uhm, potential application in tracks.


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[Assistant] Uhm, both as someone with shin splints, but also as someone who loves horses and horse racing, a lot of horses break their legs on hard.


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[Assistant] Materials, and I'm wondering if that sort of combination of give but strength but poor build, uh,


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[Assistant] Can you see the sun is shining on me? It makes me feel so free, so alive.


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[Assistant] Am I popular? Hello, Polly. Polly? Will you talk to me? Polly. Polly Moire de Mours. No, sketch a pole. Lady pole. There's a Polly. There's a lovely girl. Are you one of the parents of Wimpole Street?


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[Assistant] Of course I'll have to. In that case, you can start on me. And me? Don't you lay your hands on me!


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[Assistant] You give us your tea, and I give you a bacon, a sugar, and a couple of cooking fats out of my ration book. Eh? Yeah, go on. Yes, go on.


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[Assistant] Winthrop. Oh, the same as RG in there. Well, he's not your brother. And he's not your father.


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[Assistant] Then you shouldn't knock it back so quickly. You should chew it a bit. Thank you, doctor.


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[Assistant] Here's my contribution to Sausage Roll's very rare specimen. Who's the race from? Put it down, don't touch the exhibits. Yeah, go and force your rhubarb.


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[Assistant] Talking of cigarettes reminds me of something that once happened to me. Do you know, I was sitting in a railway carriage, opposite a man with a bowler hat, and he was smoking a cigarette.


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[Assistant] Nothing has happened to you. Yet. Funny.


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[Assistant] That. I'll go out there. You better stay here, Winthrop. I'm coming! Better come too, Doctor. Yeah, that's my coat. Oh, you look after the shop.


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[Assistant] Yes, my name's Price. Oh, I'm Tommy Yander. He's a scream. Comedian and entertainer. So far you've been neither. Neither? Neither. Neither? We've been through all that.


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[Assistant] Oh, I wish I paid attention at the first aid class. Don't worry, he'll be all right. Just a moment, I want to ask you a question.


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[Assistant] Well, we'll soon see. I open the bridge. You tell what?


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[Assistant] Well, somebody had closed it, so I opened it. Otherwise the story wouldn't be right.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid, old boy, I've, uh, been a bit of a... A bit of a? I think you've been a lot of a. Well, anyway, if you'll accept my apologies. Of course. And you, Gander. And you, Winthrop.


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[Assistant] Well, the cigarette got shorter and shorter.


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[Assistant] And suddenly, I realized it was burning right through his left. Sizzle. Sizzle. Sizzle.


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[Assistant] When's all this supposed to have happened?


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[Assistant] Every four years, the leaders of the different parts of the island would hold a meeting. This meeting lasted five or six days.


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[Assistant] During this time, the Huianim leaders discussed how their areas of the country were doing.


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[Assistant] Much of the conversation was about oats and cows, which the huyanims used for milk.


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[Assistant] If the Huyenims in any part of the country needed more oats or cows, then the others always shared generously.


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[Assistant] By this time, I had lived with the Huyenims for a year, and one day my master told me that it was time for the great meeting.


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[Assistant] He wanted the leaders to meet me, so he asked me to come with him to the meeting.


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[Assistant] I was very happy to go with him, because I was curious to listen to the huyunim's talk together.


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[Assistant] When my master and I arrived at the meeting spot, I saw that the other leaders were surprised that the gray horse had brought along a yahoo with him. But when they heard how well I spoke their language, they decided to let me stay and listen to them.


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[Assistant] After the leaders had discussed how their parts of the country were doing, the grey horse stood up and began to talk.


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[Assistant] We have one more thing to speak about, he said. This is a question which has been troubling all the huyanims for some time. Now, I think the time has come for us to discuss it. The question is, what should we do about the yahus?


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[Assistant] They have caused our people many problems for years.


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[Assistant] They have stolen our milk, and killed our cows, and eaten our oats and grass. We watch them carefully, but they often escape and cause trouble. We must think of some way to control them. One of the other horses stood up and began to speak. Greyhuinim, I agree with you. Truly.


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[Assistant] The yahoos are a very serious problem, he said.


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[Assistant] I think that the answer to our problem is to kill them all for the good and safety of our people.


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[Assistant] They are miserable animals, and I am sure they will be happier dead than alive.


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[Assistant] This horse continued to talk about how terrible the yahoos were. These yahoos are eating up all the fruits, berries and plants on our island.


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[Assistant] If a yahoo escapes his cage, he will eat the first thing he sees, whether he is hungry or not.


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[Assistant] The yahoo's favorite thing to eat is rotten meat from dead animals.


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[Assistant] I think they would even eat a huyanim if they could. This is horrible and cannot be allowed.


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[Assistant] If we do not do something about these animals, they will destroy all the plants, eat up all the fruit and kill all the animals.


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[Assistant] Then the horse began to discuss the history of the Yahu's. The Yahu's were not always in this country. They came to this land a long time ago. I do not know where they came from. Perhaps the sea made them or the earth. Two of them appeared on our island and in time they had many children. Soon


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[Assistant] There were so many yahus that our people, the huyanims, were in danger.


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[Assistant] The huyanims decided to hunt for all the yahoos and tie them up. The oldest yahoos were killed and today each huyanim keeps two yahoos in a cage in his house.


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[Assistant] These yahoos are used for pulling and carrying things and, as we all know, are much lower than even the lowest servant. I believe that our people should begin to keep donkeys instead of these yahoos. They are tamer and are easy to care for.


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[Assistant] The donkeys will not steal from us or kill our cows. I will say to all of you again, we should kill the yahoos.


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[Assistant] The other Huyanims agreed with this horse, and they began to discuss how the Yahus should best be killed. Suddenly,


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[Assistant] My master waved his head and began to speak.


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[Assistant] I understand all your feelings of anger towards the yahoos. It is true that they do many terrible things to our land.


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[Assistant] However, I have another idea that may work. Everyone stopped speaking and listened to my master.


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[Assistant] I believe that the first two yahoos in our land became so savage and terrible because they had no education and no one to talk to.


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[Assistant] So, after many years, they and their children became the terrible animals they are today.


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[Assistant] I think that the yahoos have their own countries far away.


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[Assistant] How do you know all of this? asked one of the other hui nims.


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[Assistant] As you all know, I have lived with a yahoo for a year now, my master said and pointed to me with his head.


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[Assistant] This yahoo comes from a country called England, which is full of yahoos like him.


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[Assistant] They do not have as much hair as the yahoos in our country, and they wear an outer skin called clothing.


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[Assistant] This yahoo's people are very wild and stupid, like our yahoos.


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[Assistant] The Yahu's use the Huyinims as slaves, but I do not believe him. However,


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[Assistant] He can speak our language, and he enjoys our way of life.


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[Assistant] Although he is very inferior to the Huyenims, I believe that if we train the Yahu's from birth to speak our language, we may be able to live with them. They will be better servants.


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[Assistant] I did not understand why the yahus would act this way. They have enough to eat and are almost never sick.


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[Assistant] They are too stupid to be sad about anything that is serious.


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[Assistant] However, I have found that there is one thing that stops the yahoo from acting this way.


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[Assistant] If we train the yahus from birth to do hard work for us, then they may be good servants. No one said anything for a moment.


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[Assistant] I knew that if the Huyanims believed that killing the Yahus was the reasonable thing to do, then they would not hesitate. However, the Huyanims did not believe in killing anything without a very good reason.


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[Assistant] I thought about all the things my master had said. His description of the yahu's in his house reminded me of many people I knew in England. Although they had enough food to eat and a place to live, they were still unhappy and complained often.


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[Assistant] They might even be rich, but all the money in the world could not make them happy.


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[Assistant] Perhaps these rich, lazy people should be forced to do hard work also, I thought. Then they would not complain so much and live healthier, better lives. Perhaps the people of Europe were more like the Yahu's than I had thought. Finally,


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[Assistant] The other huyanims agreed to think about my master's ideas for a while. For the next few nights, my master went alone to discuss the problem of the yahu's with the other leaders of the country. I wanted to go with him, but he did not allow it.


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[Assistant] On the last day of the meeting, my master said,


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[Assistant] Well, yahoo, the huynims have decided to try my idea for a while. We will train the yahoos to be more like you, instead of killing them.


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[Assistant] We will also make them work harder for us, lifting and carrying things.


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[Assistant] I was happy that the Huyanims had decided not to kill the Yahus. It would be very sad to see these peaceful horses use violence to get what they wanted.


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[Assistant] Chapter four. I move to the palace.


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[Assistant] Just when I felt that I could not live another week, a letter arrived for the farmer.


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[Assistant] It was from one of the queen's men and it ordered the farmer to take me to the palace to visit the queen, who was curious about me.


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[Assistant] The farmer was very excited that the queen was interested in me, and so Glumdoklic, the farmer, and I left immediately for the palace.


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[Assistant] When we arrived at the palace, a servant took us to the queen's rooms immediately. The farmer bowed to the queen and put my box down on her table. Good queen, the farmer said. You are about to see the most amazing of animals, a tiny man.


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[Assistant] I came out of my box and bowed to the Queen. Great Queen, may I have the honor of kissing your beautiful foot? The Queen smiled at me.


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[Assistant] The Queen did not want me to perform, which made me very happy. Instead, she wanted to hear about my travels around the world and about my people. When I told her about the Lilliputians, she was very interested.


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[Assistant] After an hour, the queen asked me a surprising question.


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[Assistant] Dear Queen, thank you for your kind offer. However, I belong to this farmer. If I were free to decide, I would happily come and live here.


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[Assistant] I truly wanted to live with the queen, because I knew that the queen would not make me work all day, as the farmer was doing.


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[Assistant] The farmer believed I would soon die from hunger and he didn't care what happened to me as long as he made more money. Because of this, he was quite happy to sell me to the queen. Great queen, nothing would make me happier, he said. However, this is a very valuable little man.


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[Assistant] And I cannot sell him for less than one thousand gold pieces.


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[Assistant] Queen was very rich of course. She had the money brought to the farmer immediately.


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[Assistant] When the farmer had been paid, I bowed to the queen again and said, Dear queen, I must ask you something before I begin my life at your palace. Glumdoklic, this farmer's daughter, has been my friend and cared for me kindly ever since I came to Brabdingnack.


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[Assistant] May she stay with me and continue to care for me. The queen smiled at Glundelglitch, who bowed.


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[Assistant] Glumdoklic was very happy, since she did not like living in her little town.


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[Assistant] Her father knew that having a daughter work for the queen would give him much advantage, so he quickly gave permission for Gloomdolglitch to live with me. I was so happy to see the greedy farmer leave that when he walked out the door, I only gave him a small bow.


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[Assistant] The queen, who was a very smart lady, watched me and then asked,


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[Assistant] Oh good queen, you do not understand. My life here has been terrible for many months now. I have been treated like a servant or an animal.


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[Assistant] I then told the queen about the farmer's cruel treatment.


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[Assistant] She was surprised and angry to hear my story. However, now that you have saved me, dear Queen,


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[Assistant] I am sure that I will become strong and healthy again.


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[Assistant] The queen wanted to take me to meet her husband, the king.


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[Assistant] When the king saw me, he thought I was some kind of mechanical toy. My queen, you have been tricked. That farmer has sold you a children's toy. I'll have him arrested at once. I jumped up and said quickly, No, good king. I am not a toy, but a real man from the country of England.


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[Assistant] I am very happy to be at your palace, because your beautiful queen has saved my life.


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[Assistant] The king was surprised at my words and went to look at me more closely.


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[Assistant] What kind of country is this England? Are all the people there as small as you?


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[Assistant] I told the king many stories about England and its history, and he was very entertained. My queen, you have made the right decision. What a wonderful man you are.


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[Assistant] The king ordered that Gloomdolglitch should stay with me all the time. He even asked that Gloomdolglitch receive a servant of her own as well.


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[Assistant] He then ordered his best builders to make me a comfortable home to live in.


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[Assistant] It had to be small and light enough for the queen to carry around with her.


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[Assistant] I could hardly believe how quickly my luck had changed. Finally I was being treated like a human being. A week later my home was finished.


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[Assistant] It had a soft bed, a table and chairs and many beautiful pictures on the walls. It was nicer than my home in England.


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[Assistant] All my furniture was attached to the ground so that nothing would be damaged when the Queen picked up my house.


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[Assistant] Each night, I would eat with the king and queen and tell them about the European countries, people, customs, and history.


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[Assistant] Although the king enjoyed talking to me, he felt that I did not know the language of Brabdingnag well enough. He ordered his best scholars to teach me how to speak like a king.


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[Assistant] I was happier than I had been in many months. I was living in a beautiful palace with a king and queen who treated me well and had my good friend Glumdoklic to spend time with.


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[Assistant] I spent my days visiting ladies and gentlemen in my nights eating and drinking delicious food and wine. What a life!


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[Assistant] The news of Elizabeth's death destroyed my father. He had loved Elizabeth like a daughter, and when I told him that she was dead, he could not believe it.


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[Assistant] He could not stand the deaths of so many loved ones. A few days after my return to Geneva my father died in his bed.


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[Assistant] The doctors told Ernest and I that it was a heart attack, but I believe he died of sadness.


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[Assistant] I could not stand any more pain. The deaths of William, Justine, Henry, Elizabeth and now my father were too much for my weakened mind.


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[Assistant] I went completely mad and spent many months locked up in a hospital.


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[Assistant] When the doctors at the hospital decided to let me go, I wanted revenge on the monster more than ever. This was my only reason for living.


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[Assistant] I wanted revenge on the monster and I would have it. I would make him suffer for ruining my life. I would kill him. Then I would probably die myself. I knew I had only one choice.


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[Assistant] No one could help me find this monster, even if they believed my story.


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[Assistant] One evening, a few weeks after I left the hospital, I was walking through the city.


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[Assistant] I arrived at the graveyard where William, Elizabeth, and my father were buried.


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[Assistant] I stood at their graves and, crying in pain, promised them I would make the monster pay. Suddenly I heard a soft, evil laugh. When the laughter stopped, a horrible voice I knew said,


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[Assistant] Frankenstein, do you think you are going to make me pay?


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[Assistant] I have given you what you deserve. Misery. But you will live to be even more miserable. Try to find me if you can. I tried to find where the voice was coming from, but the monster had escaped too quickly. From that night on, my last fight with the monster had begun.


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[Assistant] I had only a few clues to look for the monster, but they were enough.


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[Assistant] For many months, I followed the monster around the world.


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[Assistant] Finally, I reach the large, cold country of Russia.


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[Assistant] Sometimes frightened people who had seen him told me where he had gone.


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[Assistant] But many times the monster himself left clues to help me.


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[Assistant] I realized that the monster wanted me to follow him, but I did not know why. Sometimes I found messages from him.


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[Assistant] They were lying on the ground or placed onto rocks. Every day I hated him more and more. I knew I would find him and kill him.


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[Assistant] While traveling north into Russia, I found his last message.


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[Assistant] Find some warm clothes and prepare for a cold, dark journey. Only your suffering will make me happy.


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[Assistant] I reached a tiny village and the people there told me a huge monster had attacked them only the night before.


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[Assistant] He had stolen their food and tried to shoot them with guns. He had taken his own sled and dogs. He went in the direction of the frozen sea. The villagers told me, don't follow him. The frozen sea is very dangerous.


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[Assistant] The ice will break under you and you will fall into the cold water under it and die. But I would not listen. I had to destroy the monster.


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[Assistant] I don't know how many weeks I spent on that ice.


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[Assistant] I had little food, and the cold was horrible.


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[Assistant] But one morning, I reached the top of an ice mountain and saw a dark figure moving on the frozen sea below me. I could see that it was the monster.


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[Assistant] I almost cried out in joy, but I did not want him to hear me.


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[Assistant] I followed the monster for two days, but there was still a little distance between us.


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[Assistant] However, on the third day in this area, the ice began to break and the sea began to move.


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[Assistant] I was holding on to a small piece of ice watching the evil monster escape me once again.


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[Assistant] Soon, I could not see him anymore, and I was alone.


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[Assistant] I would die a horrible death in the ice and water.


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[Assistant] I do not know how long I stayed on that piece of ice. All the dogs died


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[Assistant] My food was gone, and I was about to give up and throw myself into the water. Then I saw your ship.


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[Assistant] I did not know that any ships traveled in this land device.


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[Assistant] I decided not to let you help me if your ship was going south.


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[Assistant] You see, I couldn't let anything stop me from finding the monster. But you and your men were heading north. So I let you save my life. And that is the end of my story.


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[Assistant] Although I am still weak from my travels, I will continue to look for the monster. I only hope that I live long enough. Now, I must ask you something. Please, Captain, help me. If I die before I find him, please find him and kill him for me. But don't listen to anything he says.


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[Assistant] The monster is smart, and he may try and make you feel sorry for him. Do not trust him. He is evil. Just kill him.


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[Assistant] For many years, my family was one of the most respected in the city of Geneva, Switzerland. My life as a child was very happy.


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[Assistant] My parents treated me and my two young brothers, William and Ernest, with great care and love.


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[Assistant] One year, my father met a noble Italian couple named Lavenza, and became friends with him.


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[Assistant] When the Levenzas died, he decided that our family would care for their daughter, Elizabeth Levenza.


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[Assistant] Soon, young Elizabeth came to Geneva to live with our happy family. Elizabeth was a year younger than I.


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[Assistant] Although we called her my cousin, Elizabeth was like a sister to me. We spent many happy hours together when we were young.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth loved to explore the mountains and lakes near Geneva.


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[Assistant] She loved nature and did not ask questions about it. But I was interested in science, studying why things happened in nature.


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[Assistant] I felt that the earth and sky hid great and wonderful secrets from me and I wanted to discover them.


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[Assistant] When I was young, my best friend in the world was a boy named Henry Clerval.


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[Assistant] I felt that he would be my friend for life.


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[Assistant] Henry was a happy boy who enjoyed writing stories of brave soldiers. I always enjoyed listening to these adventures. Guess what a happy childhood I had. It was too good to last forever.


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[Assistant] I had kind parents, a dear sister and friend, two happy little brothers, and the best friend in the world, Henry. I had everything in life, and then I destroyed it all.


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[Assistant] You see, Walton, my interest in science was too strong.


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[Assistant] I decided to find out the greatest secrets of nature. No one had ever studied these things before.


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[Assistant] But when I was 13 years old, my only interest in science was very good.


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[Assistant] I wanted to find a way to cure sicknesses forever.


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[Assistant] I only wanted to help people and stop them from dying.


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[Assistant] These childhood dreams of mine were so good and brave.


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[Assistant] When I was 15, something happened that made me become even more interested in the world of nature.


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[Assistant] There was a terrible storm in Geneva, and suddenly lightning hit an old tree near our house.


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[Assistant] In moments, the tree was on fire and after an hour, there were only small pieces of wood on the ground.


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[Assistant] I had never before seen anything destroyed so quickly.


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[Assistant] That night, I began to think about the amazing powers of electricity.


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[Assistant] As the years went by, I began to wonder if there were other, even more amazing ways I could use electricity.


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[Assistant] When I was 17 years old, I was getting ready to leave my home in Geneva to go to college.


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[Assistant] I was going to study at the University of Ingolstadt, a small school in Germany.


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[Assistant] All my ideas about electricity, nature, and science were still in my head. I was excited to learn more about them all.


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[Assistant] But then, the first tragedy of my life happened.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth had become seriously sick with a fever and her life was in danger. My mother wanted to care for Elizabeth herself.


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[Assistant] Although, we told her it was not safe to do this.


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[Assistant] Within a few days, my mother also had the fever and on the fourth day she was almost dead.


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[Assistant] As she lay in her bed, she asked all the family to come to her.


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[Assistant] She placed Elizabeth's hand in mine and said, Elizabeth and Victor take care of your father and your brothers.


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[Assistant] I can die peacefully if I know that one day you too will get married. Promise me this.


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[Assistant] Elizabeth and I looked at each other and I promised to marry her in front of my mother.


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[Assistant] After my mother died, I didn't want to leave my family. But after a few weeks, my father told me that I should go. Henry came to say goodbye to me. I was very sad to leave him.


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[Assistant] He wanted to go to college with me, but his father wouldn't allow it.


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[Assistant] He wanted Henry to stay in Geneva and join his business.


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[Assistant] As I told Henry and my family goodbye, I knew that for the first time in my life, I was going out to see the world alone.


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[Assistant] If it pleases you, yes, their heads are gone.


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[Assistant] What for? asked Alice. Because she hit the Queen's ears.


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[Assistant] I don't like the way he looks at all, said the king.


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[Assistant] Well, I won't stand for such rude behavior.


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[Assistant] My dear, he called to the queen, I wish you would get rid of this cat.


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[Assistant] Chapter 4 Getting Ready to Set Sail


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[Assistant] It's our ship's rules that people who weren't born Christian aren't allowed aboard unless they've changed their religious beliefs to accept Christianity.


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[Assistant] Do you have his papers to show he is now a Christian?


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[Assistant] He became a member of the first congregational church, I said. Isn't that the church headed by Deacon Coleman?


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[Assistant] I walk past it every Sunday, and I've never once seen Queequeg among the members. You aren't lying to me, are you? Listen, I replied.


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[Assistant] He was born a member of that church and is even a deacon himself. Plays now, said the captain. What church are you talking about? I said, the first congregational church of the world. I was amazed at my own bravery.


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[Assistant] This is the church where you and I and all mother's sons pray in. Everyone belongs to that church. Though we have some small differences in belief, we share the one grand belief in God.


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[Assistant] And it's because of this that we all join hands in this church.


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[Assistant] I must say that I've never heard a better lesson on religion," said Peleg.


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[Assistant] Perhaps the position of ship-priest would suit you better. But tell me, has your friend Queequeg ever harpooned a whale? Queequeg himself had heard the question.


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[Assistant] And decided to take the test right then and there.


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[Assistant] He jumped onto the bulwarks and then onto the bow of one of the hanging fishing boats. Holding his harpoon high above his head, he called out, Hey, Captain!


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[Assistant] Can you see that small drop of oil underwater there? Well?


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[Assistant] Let's say that it's a whale's eye. Well, look then. Using his sharp aim, Queequeg threw the harpoon into the water and struck the shiny oil spot out of sight. Now, said Queequeg as he pulled in the line of his harpoon, if that was a whale's eye, then that whale is now dead. This convinced Peleg to sign him a board.


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[Assistant] When Queequeg had to sign his name on paper, he copied a tattoo that was on his left arm.


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[Assistant] After signing aboard the Pequod, we decided to walk around Nantucket for a while. We were slowly walking along the street when we were stopped by a stranger. He looked like a beggar.


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[Assistant] Was there anything in your contract telling you about your souls? About our what? I asked. I was quite shocked by this question.


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[Assistant] Well, maybe your souls are too weak to care about it, said the stranger.


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[Assistant] But he's got enough plan to take care of your souls, he does. Old Thunder. Who's Old Thunder, I asked? Captain Ahab, of course. Haven't you heard about him?


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[Assistant] The poorly dressed stranger seemed to have lost a bit of his mind. Still, I decided to answer in a very normal way.


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[Assistant] He knows the whaling business and I've heard he's a good captain. Those are both true.


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[Assistant] But what about that other business with the whale? Oh well, never mind.


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[Assistant] You've already signed your names on the papers already. I guess somebody or other has to go with him. God have pity on you. Good morning. And may the heavens look after you.


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[Assistant] You can't trick us into believing there's something wrong, I said.


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[Assistant] I say good morning to you, he said, as he turned to go. Tell us your name, will you, stranger? Elijah, he answered. Queequeg and I quickly walked away.


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[Assistant] We both agreed that the ragged old sailor was a fake who was trying to get us to sign aboard another ship. But that name Elijah made me stop and think.


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[Assistant] The Elijah in the Bible had been a special holy man who had warned of bad things to come. We had to wait a few days before leaving Dock.


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[Assistant] The Pequod had first to be loaded with all the needed supplies for a three-year voyage.


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[Assistant] During this time, I kept asking for Captain Ahab. However, I always got the same answer.


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[Assistant] I was told that Captain Ahab was getting better and would be coming on board soon.


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[Assistant] Queequeg and I received word that we'd soon be setting sail. That is, leaving soon. I still hadn't met Captain Ahab.


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[Assistant] I started to feel uncomfortable about spending three years on a ship, serving a captain I'd never seen.


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[Assistant] Queequeg and I had to arrive at the harbor a little before six o'clock in the morning.


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[Assistant] I thought I saw a couple of sailors running in front of us, but it was hard to see clearly in the morning mist. Suddenly we heard, Stop!


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[Assistant] We both felt a hand on our shoulders. It was Elijah.


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[Assistant] Are you still planning on going aboard? he asked. We are, but that's no business of yours, I answered.


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[Assistant] Did you take a look at some of those men going towards the ship just now? he asked.


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[Assistant] Yes, but it was too dark and I couldn't see anyone clearly, I said.


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[Assistant] See if you are able to find them when you get aboard. Good morning to you. I know I won't be seeing you again. With those final words he left.


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[Assistant] I had an uneasy feeling about how he seemed so sure he wouldn't be seeing us again. Under the command of Captain Peleg, the Pequod pulled up her anchor and set sail.


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[Assistant] When we were out of sight of the bay and already on the ocean, a small sailboat pulled up next to us. It took Captain Peleg back to shore. Queequeg and I still hadn't seen Captain Ahab, but we were able to meet the other members of the crew. The chief mate was named Starbuck.


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[Assistant] He was a thin man who seemed to me brave in a very practical way. He had lost both his father and his brother at sea.


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[Assistant] So he was not the kind of man to take foolish and unnecessary risks. The second mate was named Stubb. He was an easygoing, fearless man who had a habit of smoking continuously.


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[Assistant] I imagined I would sooner see his face without his nose than to see his mouth without its little black pipe. Flask was the third mate. He was a short, round, carefree sailor


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[Assistant] Who seemed to think that hunting whales was just a lot of fun.


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[Assistant] This long voyage we were making around Cape Horn


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[Assistant] Which is at the southern tip of South America.


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[Assistant] Seemed to be some kind of big joke or party to him.


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[Assistant] Each of these three fellows was in charge of commanding one of the Pequod's small whaling boats, and each had to choose his own harpooner. Chief mate Starbuck decided upon Kwee Kweeg. Stubb decided on Tash to go. A Massachusetts Indian and Dagoo


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[Assistant] A gigantic African became Flask's harpooner.


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[Assistant] The three mates were taking turn at command of the Pequod. I had still seen nothing of Captain Ahab. A few days had passed since we'd left Nantucket.


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[Assistant] One day, finally, I came on deck for the afternoon watch. With a sudden shiver running up my back, I saw him. He was standing on deck so fiercely and seriously


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[Assistant] That I was reminded of a bronze statue that was tall and wide of form.


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[Assistant] There was a thin white scar that went from where his gray hair began, right down his face and neck.


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[Assistant] Until it could no longer be seen inside his clothing


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[Assistant] That scar reminded me of a line one can see in a great tree that has been struck and marked by lightning.


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[Assistant] One of Captain Ahab's legs was made of ivory.


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[Assistant] The ivory of the smooth bone of a whale's jaw Even though the ship was rocking


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[Assistant] Captain Ahab was able to stand firmly on that ivory leg.


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[Assistant] I wondered how he was able to do so without falling over.


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[Assistant] Then I saw that a half inch hole had been cut on each side of the officer's quarter deck, which is where the officers walk on deck.


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[Assistant] His ivory leg fit perfectly into that hole.


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[Assistant] It kept him erect as he stared silently out at the ever rocking ocean.


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[Assistant] Captain Ahab seemed to have a mighty problem on his mind.


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[Assistant] Unless the jury is back in their correct seats.


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[Assistant] That's right. I meant unimportant, of course.


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[Assistant] Important, unimportant, important, unimportant.


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[Assistant] I don't know. I haven't opened it yet.


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[Assistant] It looks like a letter written by the prisoner to, to somebody.


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[Assistant] Unless, of course, it was written to nobody, said the king.


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[Assistant] But that wouldn't be the usual way, you know.


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[Assistant] It isn't a letter. It's a poem. Is it the prisoners handwriting in the poem?


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[Assistant] Maybe he copied somebody else's style of handwriting.


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[Assistant] Please, Your Majesty, said the knave. I didn't write it. I'm telling the truth. Besides, you can't prove that I did. There's no name signed at the end of the poem. If you didn't sign it, said the king.


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[Assistant] It's because you meant to cause some trouble.


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[Assistant] Otherwise, you would have signed your name like an honest man would.


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[Assistant] They told me you had been to her, and mentioned me to him. She gave me a good character, but said I could not swim. He sent them word I had not gone. We knew it to be true. If she should push the matter on, what would become of you? I gave her one, they gave him two. You gave us three or more.


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[Assistant] They all returned from him to you, though they were mine before. If I or she should chance to be involved in this affair, he trusts to you to set them free, exactly as we were. My notion was that you had been, before she had this fit, a barrier that came between


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[Assistant] him and ourselves and it. Don't let him know she liked them best, for this must ever be a secret kept from all the rest between yourself and me.


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[Assistant] Well, that's certainly the most important piece of evidence we've heard today.


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[Assistant] That saves us a lot of trouble because we won't need to find any meaning in it. And yet


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[Assistant] We knew it to be true. That would be the jury, right?


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[Assistant] This is telling us what he did with the tarts after he stole them.


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[Assistant] Then the words don't describe you, dear queen.


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[Assistant] Phineas Fogg's name is once more in the news. James Strand, the real bank robber.


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[Assistant] His five friends at the reform club were very nervous. Would Phineas Fogg, whom they had forgotten, appear before their eyes? Where was he right now? They had no news of him. Was he dead? Had he given up?


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[Assistant] Would he appear on Saturday, the 21st of December, at a quarter before nine in the evening? A great crowd gathered outside the Reform Club. The police could not control all the people. As the hour approached, the excitement rose. The five met in the club. John Sullivan and Samuel Fallonton, the bankers, Andrew Stewart, the engineer, Gauthier Ralph, the director of the Bank of England,


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[Assistant] In twenty minutes Mr. Fogg's time will be up. What time did the last train arrive from Liverpool? asked Thomas Flanagan. At twenty-three minutes past seven, replied Gaultier-Ralph.


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[Assistant] The next does not arrive till ten minutes after twelve.


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[Assistant] If he had taken that train, he would have been here by this time.


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[Assistant] Mr. Fogg never arrives too soon or too late. Why? said Andrew, Mr. Stewart.


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[Assistant] If I should see him, I should not believe my eyes. At this moment it was twenty minutes to nine. Five minutes more, said Andrew Stewart. The five gentlemen looked at each other. Their anxiety was becoming strong, so they decided to play cards. The clock showed eighteen minutes to nine. The players could not keep their eyes off the clock.


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[Assistant] Sixteen minutes to nine, said John Sullivan. One minute more, and the wager would be one. The players stopped playing. They counted the seconds. At the fortieth second, nothing. At the fiftieth, still nothing. At the fifty-fifth, a loud cry was heard in the street, and then clapping. The players stood up.


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[Assistant] At the 57th second, the door of the club opened.


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[Assistant] Phineas Fogg appeared, followed by an excited crowd, and calmly said, Here I am, gentlemen.


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[Assistant] The day after his conversation with Peleus, Jason began his preparations.


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[Assistant] The Golden Fleece was owned by King Aeates, ruler of the land of Colchis.


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[Assistant] The journey to Colchis would take many months by ship, and Jason knew that only the best of ships would make it safely.


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[Assistant] Jason hired Argus, the most famous shipbuilder


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[Assistant] And asked him to make the greatest ship of all time.


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[Assistant] Argus used all of his skill and made a ship that was both fast and strong.


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[Assistant] Then Hera, who wished to help Jason on his quest.


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[Assistant] Visited Argus and gave him a magical figurehead to hang on the front of the ship.


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[Assistant] The figurehead could see the direction of the waves and wind and would warn Jason of storms and other dangers.


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[Assistant] Argus was so proud of his ship that he gave it his own name and called it the Argo.


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[Assistant] Jason then searched for companions to help him in his dangerous task.


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[Assistant] To accomplish this, he sent messengers to find strong men interested in adventure.


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[Assistant] From all around Greece, many heroes learned of Jason's journey for the fleece and came to join him.


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[Assistant] These men were called the Argonauts, since they would all sail on the Argo.


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[Assistant] Among them were Xetes and Callais, who were sons of the North Wind and able to fly. Trifis, the world's greatest ship sailor. Hercules, the world's strongest man. Hercules' good friend, Hyllus. And even the great musician Orpheus. They all joined Jason in his great adventure. Within a month, all of the preparations were made.


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[Assistant] Jason said goodbye to his uncle and promised to return soon with the fleece.


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[Assistant] The Argonauts each began their work on the ship, and Orpheus played sweet music to cheer them.


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[Assistant] They sailed for a week before coming to a small island where they stopped to gather more food and fresh water.


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[Assistant] Once the Argonauts were on land, they were quickly surrounded by an army of women.


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[Assistant] Without knowing it, they had landed on the Isle of Lemnos.


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[Assistant] An island where the women had joined together and killed all the men. The queen of Lemnos was called Hipsiple. And she was both beautiful and strong.


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[Assistant] Hipp Sipple felt that men were troublesome and should all be killed.


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[Assistant] Invited Jason and all the Argonauts to stay on Lemnos. They rested there for more than a month.


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[Assistant] They spent their days eating great meals and drinking wine. At night, the women would pay great attention to each of them.


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[Assistant] Jason was so happy lying in Hipsipple's arms that he never wanted to leave.


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[Assistant] But finally Hercules convinced him that they should continue their journey.


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[Assistant] Before Theseus had traveled a full day, he met the first giant. This giant was called Periphetes.


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[Assistant] Periphetes carried a giant club covered with sharp nails and waited in the middle of the road for travelers to pass. Theseus did not slow his walk as he approached the giant.


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[Assistant] He only reached down for his sword and pulled it from his belt.


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[Assistant] When he was only a few steps away, the giant raised his weapon and swung it down at Theseus. The young hero jumped quickly to the side, and the giant missed.


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[Assistant] The weapon was so heavy that the giant fell down when he missed hitting Theseus.


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[Assistant] Theseus saw his opportunity, jumped on the giant's back, and pushed his sword through the back of his huge head. Periphetes never stood up again.


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[Assistant] Theseus was proud to have killed his first great enemy and took Periphetes' club with him to remember the fight. After another day of travel,


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[Assistant] Theseus met an old man who warned him of a dangerous giant on the road ahead.


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[Assistant] Theseus thanked the old man for his warning and continued on his journey. Soon,


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[Assistant] He saw the giant trying to bend a great pine tree down to the ground. When he approached, the giant said,


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[Assistant] Theseus agreed, and the two men pulled the tree down to the ground easily.


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[Assistant] When the top of the tree was touching the earth, the giant asked, Do you have a strong hold of the tree? Not yet, said Theseus.


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[Assistant] And release the tree before the giant could let go.


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[Assistant] The giant flew into the air and came down on a pile of sharp rocks.


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[Assistant] His head split open on the rocks and he died instantly.


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[Assistant] The third giant Theseus met was named Skyron.


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[Assistant] Skyron would demand that they stop to wash his feet.


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[Assistant] When the man bent down in front of his feet, the giant would kick them back into the sea.


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[Assistant] The sea was full of large and hungry fish that devoured them.


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[Assistant] Theseus was sure he could find a way to defeat this giant.


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[Assistant] Oh, certainly great giant, said Theseus. And the giant sat on a rock by the cliff.


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[Assistant] Theseus stood in front of him and pretended to reach down to pick up a bucket of water, but just then pulled out his sword and cut off the giant's feet.


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[Assistant] Skyron yelled out in pain and fell to the ground.


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[Assistant] Listen to me now, you cruel giant! yelled Theseus.


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[Assistant] I will cut off your head as well if you do not wash my feet.


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[Assistant] The giant was afraid of Theseus now and bent down to wash his feet. Just then Theseus kicked up his leg and the giant fell off the cliff into the sea. The hungry fish found the giant and ate him quickly. Then Theseus continued his journey toward Athens. Now there was only one more giant to defeat, and his name was Procrustes.


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[Assistant] Procrustes was the most cruel of all the giants. He invited men into his house to rest.


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[Assistant] Procrustes would take an axe off the wall and cut off their legs so they would fit.


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[Assistant] If they choose the lung bed, Procrustes would tie their arms and legs with rope and pull them until their bodies broke in half.


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[Assistant] Barthesius had discovered all of this before meeting the giant and planned to kill him for his cruel ways.


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[Assistant] Theseus entered the giant's house and went into the room with the two beds.


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[Assistant] Before the giant knew what was happening, Theseus hit him in the head with his club and pushed him down onto the small bed.


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[Assistant] Theseus moved his injured body over to the long bed. This bed is too long for you, giant, he said. I will just have to make you longer.


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[Assistant] Theseus tied the ropes around Procustes and pulled him into two pieces. Now, all the giants were defeated. Theseus continued on his way to Athens.


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[Assistant] Madame Ratignolle informed Edna that her younger son, Etienne, had been very bad while she was away. When the time had come for him to go to bed,


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[Assistant] Madame Ratignolle tried to calm him down as best she could.


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[Assistant] She had had no problems with the other boy, Raoul. He had gone to bed two hours ago.


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[Assistant] Etienne was dressed in his sleeping clothes, which were too long for him and caused him to almost fall several times as Edna walked him to his bedroom.


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[Assistant] His eyes were red and swollen from crying so long.


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[Assistant] In his room, his mother picked him up and held him in her arms as she sat in a chair.


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[Assistant] She sang a few simple songs to him until he fell asleep. Then she put him to bed.


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[Assistant] It was just after 9 o'clock and still rather early for the adults.


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[Assistant] Edna sat with Madame Ratignolle and chatted for a short while. Leance was quite worried, Madame Ratignolle explained.


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[Assistant] He was ready to take a boat to the island to get you. But Mr. Farival explained to him,


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[Assistant] Hearing that Tony was to bring you back to Grand Isle.


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[Assistant] Your husband calmed down and decided to wait here for you.


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[Assistant] He's gone over to the club to meet a gentleman about some business.


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[Assistant] I don't remember exactly what it was about. Anyway, I can't stay here with you now.


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[Assistant] Because my husband is waiting for me at home and he just hates it when I'm not there with him. After Adele had left, Robert, who had been there the whole time,


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[Assistant] Went with Edna to pull the mosquito net over Etienne.


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[Assistant] Do you realize that we've been hanging out together since very early this morning? Edna commented.


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[Assistant] Answered Robert. He then took her hand for a moment, squeezed it in order to say goodbye, and then walked alone towards the sea. Edna was not at all tired. She decided to wait up for her husband.


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[Assistant] Despite hearing the sounds of people having a good time over at Madame Le Brun's, she did not join them. She wanted to be alone for a while.


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[Assistant] She sat on the front porch thinking about this year's summer holiday and how it compared to other summers.


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[Assistant] In the end, she decided that it was something about herself that was different. Something had changed inside of her.


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[Assistant] She thought it strange that Robert had gone to the sea by himself.


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[Assistant] She would not have minded if he had stayed a little longer with her.


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[Assistant] Soon she was softly singing to herself a little song that Robert had been singing as they were returning from Madame Antoine's.


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[Assistant] She thought his voice was quite nice and could not stop hearing it in her head.


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[Assistant] Eurystheus was embarrassed and angry when he heard everyone laughing at him.


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[Assistant] He was so scared that he would not leave his room and see Hercules in the lion's skin.


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[Assistant] The king wants you to save these towns from the Hydra.


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[Assistant] Hercules knew that this would be a very hard task indeed.


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[Assistant] So he called for the help of his nephew, Iolius.


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[Assistant] I must go on a very dangerous journey, Iolius, and I will need your help," he said. Iolius agreed, and the two men set out to find the Hydra.


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[Assistant] When they arrived in the town nearest to the lake where the Hydra lived,


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[Assistant] Hercules asked the people about the terrible monster.


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[Assistant] He learned that many men had come to fight the Hydra, but that all had been eaten


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[Assistant] The hydrous strength was found in its terrible heads.


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[Assistant] If a man was able to cut off one of the monster's heads, it would instantly grow back.


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[Assistant] I cannot use my sword to destroy it, for its heads cannot be killed.


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[Assistant] But Hercules was a smart man and wise in the ways of fighting.


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[Assistant] He had beaten the terrible lion, Evnemia, and he felt sure he could destroy the Hydra.


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[Assistant] He asked the people of the town to make him a large net with large stones tied around the outside ropes.


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[Assistant] He then asked Iolius to make a few torches that would burn with hot flame. Once all these preparations were made,


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[Assistant] Hercules and Aeolus left to find the Hydra.


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[Assistant] Hercules knew that the Hydra only came out of the water at night.


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[Assistant] So he and Iolias waited by the lake until the sun began to go down behind the hills.


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[Assistant] You must quickly burn the neck so that a new head cannot grow in its place. Just then, the two men heard the water moving.


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[Assistant] Nine huge snake heads rose out of the water. When the hydra saw Hercules,


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[Assistant] It attacked him with all of its mouths at once.


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[Assistant] Hercules jumped back and threw the net over the monster. Because the net had heavy rocks tied around it, the monster could not move.


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[Assistant] However, this did not stop the monster from attacking.


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[Assistant] Its heads were narrow enough to get through the net and each one worked to free itself. Each time a head became free


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[Assistant] No new heads could grow where the old ones had been cut off. Soon, only the hydra's middle head remained. It rushed at Iolius and bit his arm.


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[Assistant] Hercules lifted the Hydra above his head and carried him up the side of the closest mountain.


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[Assistant] Once he found a cave, Hercules put the Hydra inside and closed off the entrance to the cave with many large stones.


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[Assistant] Even today, the hydra still lives in that cave.