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🗓️ 25 May 2018
⏱️ 47 minutes
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0:00.0 | I like the poem by A. A. Milne where Edward Bear learns about body positivity. |
0:07.2 | It's very cute and good. Is that? It's real. Okay. It's a real poem. |
0:13.0 | It's so beautiful. |
0:14.0 | I'll summarize it. |
0:15.0 | So it's about Edward Bear being a plump stuffed animal and then he is upset about it but then he looks at a picture |
0:21.2 | book and he sees this picture of a king who was called the handsome, |
0:24.4 | and he was a fat king, King Louis, the something. |
0:27.8 | And he looks at the handsome, and he's like, |
0:29.9 | oh my god, this king is called handsome, |
0:32.3 | even though he's fat, maybe I'm handsome too and he |
0:35.6 | and then he starts doubting himself and he's like but what if that was like |
0:39.2 | what if he's not alive anymore what if it was fictional but then one day he falls out the window and he meets the king and he's real and he's like oh you're the king you're king Louis the handsome and he's like yes I am and you're Edward bear and then he feels good about himself and it's so cute and good and I love it. |
0:57.0 | I have three questions. |
0:59.0 | One, why did he have to fall off the window for this happen? |
1:02.0 | Yeah, what was the king doing right under the window? |
1:04.6 | He was walking on the street. |
1:07.4 | Two. |
1:08.4 | Like things happen in English poems that are always tragic but happy. |
1:12.0 | That's true. Two, was this just like a |
1:15.0 | delirious like post-death experience? Because like how tall was that building |
1:20.0 | that he fell out of? He is a stuffed animal. |
1:22.8 | Thank you. |
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