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vexation and regret","startTime":2546.01,"endTime":2548.953,"body":"takes us right into the lover's bedroom."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2551.837,"endTime":2556.837,"body":"\"She snatched,\" so this is"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2551.837,"endTime":2556.837,"body":"one of her meetings with Leon"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2559.06,"endTime":2562.697,"body":"in Rouen, a hotel room in"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2559.06,"endTime":2562.697,"body":"Rouen, which they regularly use."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2562.697,"endTime":2564.04,"body":"\"She snatched at her dress"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2564.04,"endTime":2566.38,"body":"and tore at the thin laces of her corsets,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2566.38,"endTime":2570.07,"body":"which whistled down over her"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2566.38,"endTime":2570.07,"body":"hits like a slithering adder.\""},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2570.07,"endTime":2573.006,"body":"I think, by the way,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2570.07,"endTime":2573.006,"body":"you'll be able to tell me,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2573.006,"endTime":2577.36,"body":"(speaks in French) I"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2573.006,"endTime":2577.36,"body":"think that's not an adder."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2577.36,"endTime":2578.77,"body":"I don't think that's an adder."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2578.77,"endTime":2580.51,"body":"I think maybe a grass snake or 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vexation and regret","startTime":2606.37,"endTime":2609.34,"body":"translated as shudder in English."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2609.34,"endTime":2612.43,"body":"We don't have enough"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2609.34,"endTime":2612.43,"body":"words for free sunning"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2612.43,"endTime":2614.2,"body":"and so on, do we?"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2614.2,"endTime":2616.72,"body":"There's certainly nothing like this"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2616.72,"endTime":2621.403,"body":"in the literary British"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2616.72,"endTime":2621.403,"body":"novel of the 19th century."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2622.3,"endTime":2625.84,"body":"Indeed, serious novels in 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regret","startTime":2643.42,"endTime":2644.95,"body":"before my time is up,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2644.95,"endTime":2648.07,"body":"but this is an example from"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2644.95,"endTime":2648.07,"body":"Dickens' Dombey and Son,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2648.07,"endTime":2651.61,"body":"where the second Mrs."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2648.07,"endTime":2651.61,"body":"Dombey, Edith Dombey,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2651.61,"endTime":2654.55,"body":"who Mr. Dombey has in a sense purchased."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2654.55,"endTime":2656.35,"body":"She has married him"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2654.55,"endTime":2656.35,"body":"cause she's got no money"},{"speaker":"no small portion of 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regret","startTime":2801.04,"endTime":2806.04,"body":"Mystic Casaubon, so that"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2801.04,"endTime":2806.04,"body":"Dorothea can be duly and legally,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2806.35,"endTime":2811.213,"body":"and morally it's all fine,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2806.35,"endTime":2811.213,"body":"rewarded with Will Ladislaw."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2812.11,"endTime":2815.5,"body":"Henry James, and I wanted to"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2812.11,"endTime":2815.5,"body":"talk, I wanted, as I said,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2815.5,"endTime":2818.29,"body":"penultimate author to look at Henry James."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":2818.29,"endTime":2821.32,"body":"Henry James I think 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irresistible."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3376.38,"endTime":3377.428,"body":"Thank you."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3377.428,"endTime":3380.595,"body":"(audience applauding)"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3385.163,"endTime":3388.65,"body":"- What do you think about"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3385.163,"endTime":3388.65,"body":"French female French writers"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3388.65,"endTime":3391.8,"body":"such as Rashied or Sand"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3388.65,"endTime":3391.8,"body":"who write about adultery"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3391.8,"endTime":3393.36,"body":"in the 19th century?"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3393.36,"endTime":3395.915,"body":"- What do I? Such as who and Sand?"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3395.915,"endTime":3399.09,"body":"- Oh, Rashield or George Sand?"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3399.09,"endTime":3404.09,"body":"- Yeah. I guess I hesitated"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3399.09,"endTime":3404.09,"body":"about including Madame Bovary"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3407.76,"endTime":3409.35,"body":"because I thought that will open me"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3409.35,"endTime":3410.85,"body":"to just this sort of question."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3412.08,"endTime":3414.66,"body":"And my defense would be Madame Bovary"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3414.66,"endTime":3419.66,"body":"became a sort of notoriously"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3414.66,"endTime":3419.66,"body":"circulated text in Britain."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3421.2,"endTime":3424.17,"body":"All I could say, I"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3421.2,"endTime":3424.17,"body":"mean, I think that each,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3424.17,"endTime":3427.59,"body":"it is rather a national"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3424.17,"endTime":3427.59,"body":"thing that, bless you,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3427.59,"endTime":3432.59,"body":"that countries have their own"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3432.78,"endTime":3435.03,"body":"rather different adultery traditions,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3435.03,"endTime":3438.6,"body":"despite my invocation of \"Madame Bovary\""},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3438.6,"endTime":3439.47,"body":"and \"Anna Karenina.\""},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3439.47,"endTime":3440.73,"body":"And you'll notice, for 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do all sorts of things,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3787.23,"endTime":3790.02,"body":"but they rely on their"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3787.23,"endTime":3790.02,"body":"wives being faithful,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3790.02,"endTime":3792.51,"body":"but rely on knowing who the who's"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3792.51,"endTime":3794.37,"body":"but their children are their children."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3794.37,"endTime":3796.5,"body":"You know, that's the basic thing."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3796.5,"endTime":3799.12,"body":"Dr. Johnson said the"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3796.5,"endTime":3799.12,"body":"basic rules of society"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3801.33,"endTime":3803.37,"body":"are they're based on the fact"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3803.37,"endTime":3807.15,"body":"that a child always knows"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3803.37,"endTime":3807.15,"body":"who their mother is,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3807.15,"endTime":3809.85,"body":"but never knows who their father is."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3809.85,"endTime":3812.01,"body":"Johnson put it in a satirical way."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3812.01,"endTime":3813.81,"body":"So it seems that, you know,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3813.81,"endTime":3816.753,"body":"maybe Hawthorne has that in mind."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3818.82,"endTime":3819.9,"body":"- Thank you Professor Mullan"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3819.9,"endTime":3821.58,"body":"for letting us put you"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3819.9,"endTime":3821.58,"body":"on the spot like that,"},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3821.58,"endTime":3823.248,"body":"and thank you all for coming."},{"speaker":"no small portion of vexation and regret","startTime":3823.248,"endTime":3826.415,"body":"(audience applauding)"}]}