Hello there, good morning, good evening, or good day, I suppose. This is Sam Fold and this is episode 96 of the Victor Prep Vocal podcast.

We'll get started today with just quickly covering our words from last time. So we had wanton, dichotomy, aberrant, and alights. So let's start with wanton.

Wanton, often referring to a cruel action or a violent action, means deliberate and unprovoked.

And when describing a person often means their promiscuous, immoral or indecent.

dichotomy, dichotomy, that means a division or contrast between two things

that are represented as being opposed or entirely different, such as a dichotomy between science and mysticism.

Aberrant, that means something that is departing from an accepted standard, it's abnormal or atypical. And, Bolite. A Bolite is a plant disease, so a disease that affects plants, trees and so on,

especially one caused by a fungus.

Blight also can be anything that spoils or damages something.

All right then, so I'd like to start today's episode with a quote from the writer David Foster Wallace.

He was a really great American writer who wrote a bunch of amazing articles and short stories and a few wonderful novels.

One of my favorite novels that he wrote was Infinite Jest.

But this quote is from a novel that he started writing and then he died before he finished it and

it was a book called The Pale King.

Okay so let's do this.

The next suitable person you're in light conversation with,

you stop suddenly in the middle of the conversation

and look at the person closely and say,

what's wrong?

You say it in a concerned way.

He'll say, what do you mean? You say, something's wrong, I can tell. What is it?

And he'll look stunned and say, how did you know?

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