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The ancient mariner kills his albatross with a car.

The ancient mariner kills his albatross with a carelessness that stands in stark contrast to his impulse for confession.

For several days he and his shipmates feed the albatross, play with it and treat it as if it were inhabited by a quote Christian soul.

The mariner never tells the wedding guest why it is that he kills the bird,

but the casual and seemingly unmotivated act is

followed by a psychedelic nightmare that gives us some clues. Why do we rebel

against our position within the natural world even to the point of

self-destruction what is required to restore us. Today we discuss Samuel Taylor

Coleridge's classic poem, The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner. This is Wes Allwan, this is Aaron Alonick,

and you're listening to subtext.

Okay, Wes, here's how I'd like to kind of frame our discussion today. It's a philosophical question, I know.

But I think it's foundational to our discussion of this poem.

And that is, is it really ever a crime to kill a bird? Is it ever a crime to kill a bird?

Is it ever a crime to kill a bird?

Well, you're making me associate to something which I associated to when I started reading the poem, which is being an adolescent boy,

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