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Here we go.

All right.

So we've taken on an impossible task.

Rarely, like rarely do I feel the gap of you have a PhD in English and I don't, but this was one where...

Well, I actually, I think that may...

I mean, it depends on what we're solving for.

Like, I think you may have a better sense of it because...

I think people...

I think the idea of well-read is a more mainstream idea, right?

And there's a lot of academics that aren't

well read in that particular field, right? Like they just, they're much more, I have a lot more

literary history, but I'm going to over index on Thucydides. You hear what I'm saying?

Yeah. I do remember slogging my way through the history of the Peloponnesian War, and I could

not tell you anything that happens in that book. The Ring of Geige's Solon, Creases. You're just

making sounds now then. That's all real. That's all real. So I think you may have a better calibration

for what people understand in the general sense, which is kind of the game here.

Yeah, we'll meet in the middle.

We'll meet in the middle.

So I have 10.

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