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That's where we're at.

That's where we're at because there aren't enough hours in the day, let alone among the horrors.

Like, it's like, how do you keep up with all the terrible things? It's like, and then my city is blanketed with smoke.

You know, I, eight years ago, I left Toronto and I went back home. I moved back home, or rather close enough to home to the West Coast, where I grew up. And not once in my 28 years at that point do I remember a smoke-filled

summer where you just had a smoky sky and the smell in the air for like half the summer I don't

remember that at all I moved back very first summer and then every single one after

that. And then I live there for eight years and I move back to Toronto. Toronto. And anyway,

the smoke is everywhere. Um, I am here to read from the Thebiat because I want to and because it is a good, I don't know, it's like a cleanse, you know, let's go back.

I mean, we're about to get into the war.

But still, it's a mythical war that was written about 2,000 years ago, so we're doing it.

Now, just a reminder, this is, you know, uh, unfortunately an old clunky translation.

That's how it works when I want to be reading these things out loud.

And this is an epic that I think is best read out loud rather than me kind of digging it all

out primarily because it is like a lot

of it is this war, this war against Thebes, but also it is just filled with so many really

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