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to a line in "Circus Animals".
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I can't even remember it.
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Try anyway.
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An ambiguous line.
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The French usually interpret
"lay down" as "die".
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"Now that I've lost my ladder,
I die where all ladders leave."
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I don't really agree.
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You can interpret the same verb as:
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That's much better.
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Yeats is getting old,
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he has lost his imagination's ladder
but never mind.
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Now he is resting there,
at the very spot
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where all the ladders of the mind
originate.
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Therefore, it's an optimistic poem.
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You're quite right.
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Still, it's tragic
dreaming about translation problems.
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I'd rather have normal dreams.
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What are "normal dreams"?
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About my parents
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or I don't know...
Like patients in Freud's books.
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Forget Freud's books.
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Any other thoughts about this dream?
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It's a dream of impotence.
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It's a metaphor for erection.
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I can't climb the ladder:
I'm finished as a man.
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Or, in my dream,
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I'm with the other citizens,
in the crowd.
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I'm twelve,
I'm at the foot of the ladder
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and I can look up...
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your skirt.
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Very good.
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That'll be all for today.
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Thank you, doctor.
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Brilliant, you're legally crazy!
:50:47
I knew it and this proves it!
:50:50
The IRS can stuff the adjustment
and all the rest up their asses.
:50:55
Get the psychiatrist on your side.
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What're you doing?
:50:59
Writing to the prosecutor.