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Okay, welcome to part four of our discussion of Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner.

We just got done introducing death and what presumably is Mrs. Death, although that may be in this reading. Classic couple.

For all we know, she could be his daughter and they may not even be related, but they may just

work together. Their work husband and wife, yeah.

In any case, we should see what death and life turns out to be Mrs. Death or Death in Life

turns out to be the more important personage in the sense of that what comes now will be,

for the Mariner, will be life in death as opposed to death because she's the one who won the dice game.

So do you want to read on and tell us what that looks like?

Yeah, let's do it. Okay. With never a whisper in the sea off darts the specter ship.

While clomb above the eastern bar, the horned moon with one bright star almost between the tips.

One after one by the horned moon,

listen, O Stranger to me, each turned his face with a ghastly pang and cursed me with his

E. Four times fifty living men, with never a sigh or groan, with heavy thump, a lifeless lump,

they dropped down one by one. Their souls did from from their bodies fly they fled to bliss or woe

and every soul it passed me by like the whiz of my crossbow okay so i guess the stranger his attention is

wondering at this point surprising given how cool death and Mrs. Death are,

but he gets a little slap in the face here.

Pay attention.

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