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[Events]
Format: Layer, Start, End, Style, Name, MarginL, MarginR, MarginV, Effect, Text
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A long time ago, there lived a giant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a selfish giant, whose stunning garden\Nwas the most beautiful in all the land.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One evening, this giant came home\Nand found all these children
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing in his garden,\Nand he became enraged.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"My own garden is my own garden,"
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the giant said,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and he built this high wall around it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The author Oscar Wilde wrote this story\Nof this selfish giant in 1888.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Almost a hundred years later, that giant\Nmoved into my Brooklyn childhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and never left.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was raised in a religious family,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I grew up reading\Nboth the Bible and the Quran.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The hours of reading,\Nboth religious and recreational,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,far outnumbered the hours\Nof television-watching.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, on any given day,\Nyou could find my siblings and I
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,curled up in some part\Nof our apartment reading,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sometimes unhappily,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because on summer days in New York City,\Nthe fire hydrant blasted,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and to our immense jealousy,\Nwe could hear our friends down there
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,playing in the gushing water,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their absolute joy making its way up\Nthrough our open windows.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I learned that the deeper\NI went into my books,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more time I took with each sentence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the less I heard the noise\Nof the outside world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and so, unlike my siblings,\Nwho were racing through books,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I read slowly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,very, very slowly.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was that child with her finger\Nrunning beneath the words
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until I was untaught to do this,\Ntold big kids don't use their fingers.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In third grade, we were made to sit\Nwith our hands folded on our desk,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unclasping them only to turn the pages,\Nthen returning them to that position.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Our teacher wasn't being cruel.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the 1970s, and her goal\Nwas to get us reading
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not just on grade level but far above it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we were always\Nbeing pushed to read faster.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But in the quiet of my apartment\Noutside of my teacher's gaze,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I let my finger run beneath those words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that selfish giant\Nagain told me his story,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how he had felt betrayed by the kids\Nsneaking into his garden,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how he had built this high wall,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it did keep the children out,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the grey winter fell over his garden
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just stayed and stayed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,With each rereading,\NI learned something new
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the hard stones of the roads\Nthat the kids were forced to play on
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they got expelled from the garden,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the gentleness of a small boy\Nthat appeared on day,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and even about the giant himself.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe his words weren't rageful after all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Maybe they were plea for empathy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for understanding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My own garden is my own garden.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Years later, I would learn\Nof a writer named John Gardner
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who referred to this as the fictive dream,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the dream of fiction,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I would realize that this\Nwas where I was inside that book,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,spending time with the characters\Nand the world that the author had created
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and invited me into.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As a child, I knew that stories\Nwere meant to be savored,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that stories wanted to be slow,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that some author had spent months,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe years writing them,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and my job as the reader,\Nespecially as the reader
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who wanted to one day become a writer,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was to respect that narrative.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Long before there was cable\Nor the internet
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or even the telephone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were people sharing ideas\Nand information and memory through story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of our earliest forms\Nof connective technology.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was the story of something\Nbetter down the Nile
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that sent the Egyptians moving along it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the story of a better way\Nto preserve the dead
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that brought King Tut's remains\Ninto the 21st century.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And more than two million years ago,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when the first humans\Nbegan making tools from stone,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,someone must have said, what if?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And someone else remembered the story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And whether they told it through words\Nor gestures or drawings,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it was passed down, remembered:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,hit a hammer and hear its story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The world is getting noisier.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've gone from boomboxes
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to Walkmen to portable to CD players
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to iPods
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to any song we want whenever we want it.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We've gone from the four\Ntelevision channels of my childhood
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to the seeming infinity\Nof cable and streaming.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As technology moves us faster and faster\Nthrough time and space,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it seems to feel like story\Nis getting pushed out of the way,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean literally pushed out\Nof the narrative.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But even as our engagement\Nwith stories change,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or the trappings around it more from book\Nto audio to Instagram to Snapchat,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we must remember our finger\Nbeneath the words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,remember that story,\Nregardless of the format,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has always taken us to places\Nwe never thought we'd go,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,introduced us to people\Nwe never thought we'd meet,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and shown us worlds\Nthat we might have missed.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So while, as technology\Nkeeps moving faster and faster,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I am good with something slower.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My finger beneath the words\Nhas led me to a life of writing books
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for people of all ages,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,books meant to be read slowly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to be savored.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,My love for looking deeply\Nand closely at the world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for putting my whole self into it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and by doing so seeing the many,\Nmany possibilities of a narrative,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turned out to be a gift,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because taking my sweet time
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taught me everything\NI needed to know about writing,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and writing taught me everything\NI needed to know about creating worlds
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where people could be seen and heard,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,where their experiences\Ncould be legitimized,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and where my story,\Nread or heard by another person,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,inspired something in them\Nthat became a connection between us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a conversation.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And isn't that what this is all about:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,finding a way at the end of the day\Nto not feel alone in this world,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a way to feel like\Nwe've changed it before we leave?
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stone to hammer, man to mummy,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,idea to story, and all of it, remembered.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we read\Nto understand the future.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Sometimes we read\Nto understand the past.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We read to get lost, to forget\Nthe hard times we're living in,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and we read to remember\Nthose who came before us,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who lived through something harder.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I write for those same reasons.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Before coming to Brooklyn, my family\Nlived in Greenville, South Carolina
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in a segregated neighborhood\Ncalled Nicholtown.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of us there were the descendants\Nof a people who had not been allowed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to learn to read or write.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Imagine that:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the danger of understanding\Nhow letters form words,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the danger of words themselves,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the danger of a literate people\Nand their stories.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But against this backdrop\Nof being threatened with death
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,for holding on to a narrative,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our stories didn't die,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because there is yet another story\Nbeneath that one,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is how it has always worked.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For as long as we've been communicating,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there's been the layering\Nto the narrative,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the stories beneath the stories\Nand the ones beneath those.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is how story has\Nand will continue to survive.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As I began to connect the dots\Nthat connected the way I learned to write
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the way I learned to read
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to an almost silenced people,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I realized that my story was bigger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and older and deeper than I would ever be,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and because of that, it will continue.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Among these almost silenced people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,there were the ones\Nwho never learned to read.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Their descendants, now generations\Nout of enslavement,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,if well off had gone on to college,\Ngrad school, beyond.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some, like my grandmother and my siblings,\Nseemed to be born reading
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as though history\Nstepped out of their way.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Some, like my mother,\Nhitched on to the Great Migration wagon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which was not actually a wagon,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and kissed the South goodbye.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But here is the story within that story:
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,those who left and those who stayed
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,carried with them\Nthe history of a narrative,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knew deeply that writing it down wasn't\Nthe only way they could hold on to it,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knew they could sit on their porches\Nor their stoops at the end of a long day
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and spin a slow tale for their children.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They knew they could sing their stories\Nthrough the thick heat of picking cotton
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and harvesting tobacco,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knew they could preach their stories\Nand sow them into quilts,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,turn the most painful ones\Ninto something laughable,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and, through that laughter,\Nexhale the history a country
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that tried again and again and again
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to steal their bodies,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their spirit,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and their story.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as a child, I learned to imagine\Nan invisible finger
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,taking me from word to word,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from sentence to sentence,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from ignorance to understanding.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So as technology continues to speed ahead,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I continue to read slowly,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,knowing that I am respecting\Nthe author's work
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the story's lasting power.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I read slowly to drown out the noise
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and remember those who came before me,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were probably the first people
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who finally learned to control fire
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and circled its new power,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a flame and light and heat.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I read slowly to remember\Nthe selfish giant,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how he finally tore that wall down
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let the children\Nrun free through his garden.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I read slowly to pay homage\Nto my ancestors,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who were not allowed to read at all.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,They too must have circled fires,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,speaking softly of their dreams,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,their hopes, their futures.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Each time we read, write, or tell a story,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we step inside their circle,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it remains unbroken,
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and the power of story lives on.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,9:59:59.99,9:59:59.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)