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"O Captain! My captain!"
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Who knows where that comes from?
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Anybody.
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Not a clue?
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It's from a poem by Walt Whitman
about Mr Abraham Lincoln.
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Now, in this class,
you can either call me Mr Keating...
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or if you're slightly more daring
O Captain, my Captain.
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Now let me dispel a few rumours,
so they don't fester into facts.
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Yes, l, too, attended Hell-ton
and have survived.
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And, no, at that time I was not
the mental giant you see before you.
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I was the intellectual equivalent
of a 98-pound weakling.
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I would go to the beach, and people
would kick copies of Byron in my face.
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Now...
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Mr Pitts.
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That's a rather unfortunate name.
Mr Pitts, where are you?
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Mr Pitts, will you open your hymnal
to page 542?
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Read the first stanza
of the poem you find there.
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- "To The Virgins to Make Much of Time"?
- Yes. That's the one.
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Somewhat appropriate, isn't it?
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"Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,
old time is still a-flying...
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and this same flower that smiles today,
tomorrow will be dying."
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Thank you, Mr Pitts.
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"Gather ye rosebuds
while ye may."
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The Latin term for that sentiment
is carpe diem.
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Now who knows what that means?
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Carpe diem.
That's seize the day.
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- Very good, Mr...
- Meeks.
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Meeks. Another unusual name.
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Seize the day.
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"Gather ye rosebuds
while ye may."
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- Why does the writer use these lines?
- Because he's in a hurry.
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No! Ding!