4.6 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 September 2020
⏱️ 43 minutes
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0:00.0 | The following podcast contains explicit language. |
0:07.9 | From New York City, this is Lexicon Valley, a podcast about language. |
0:11.9 | I'm John McWater and let's begin with some Steven Sondheim. |
0:17.4 | This is actually, for those of you who care about such things, my very favorite musical. |
0:23.5 | This is a little night music and this is a song called Now. |
0:29.0 | It is a middle-aged man who has married a much younger woman |
0:33.7 | and certain things haven't happened yet |
0:36.7 | and he's feeling kind of self-conscious about it. |
0:38.8 | This is my favorite part of the song. |
0:40.4 | On top of my head, like a desire. |
0:42.5 | Hey, I could put on my night shirt or sit disarmingly be in the nude. |
0:46.8 | I'm Patrick. You should have seen the greater idol. |
0:49.4 | My body's alright but not a perspective and not a light. |
0:52.9 | Oh, Henrik, how come I called you? |
0:55.4 | There'd be chilly and feel a buffoon but night shirts are silly and mid-afterno. |
0:59.7 | Why are virtuous people so stupid? |
1:01.7 | Which leaves the suggested but how to proceed. |
1:03.9 | Although she gets rested perhaps I could read. |
1:07.3 | In view of her passion for something romantic, |
1:09.5 | disarguised and trench-entendic and stuprentic and stand all the cruel and the plan of attack |
1:13.9 | has very as much blue and the red and the black. |
1:16.9 | The poem. |
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