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Dialogue: 0,0:00:07.60,0:00:12.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Mary Reid Kelley: "You Make Me Iliad"]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:12.62,0:00:13.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[You]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.58,0:00:14.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Make]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:14.82,0:00:16.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Me]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.08,0:00:18.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Iliad]
Dialogue: 0,0:00:23.60,0:00:24.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Stamped Monday,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:25.18,0:00:27.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the Doctor’s bill of health--
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.16,0:00:29.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Unless the Hippocratic Oaf himself
Dialogue: 0,0:00:29.45,0:00:32.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,left a blemish on my record, I'm clean.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:33.72,0:00:35.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Good line!
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.06,0:00:37.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Iʼll put that in the second scene,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:37.28,0:00:39.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,along the fortress ramparts.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.00,0:00:43.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Herr Lieutenant, Mach Schnell,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.57,0:00:45.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,you only have 10 minutes?
Dialogue: 0,0:00:45.87,0:00:48.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your flesh is not of interest.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:48.19,0:00:51.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I audition characters to boost my composition.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:51.90,0:00:54.76,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The verse needs local flavor to be edible,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:54.76,0:00:58.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and as a tragic female, you are most credible.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.93,0:01:02.79,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I've always been very interested in the history\Nof women--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:02.79,0:01:06.68,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,what women are doing, what the circumstances\Nof their lives are,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:06.68,0:01:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,how law and politics make women's lives what\Nthey are historically.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.56,0:01:22.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I started researching "You Make Me Iliad,"
Dialogue: 0,0:01:23.63,0:01:25.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I had looked at what women were doing
Dialogue: 0,0:01:25.80,0:01:27.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at different points in the first World War--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:27.91,0:01:28.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,like a nurse,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.84,0:01:29.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a factory worker--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:29.86,0:01:32.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and then I knew I wanted to do a prostitute--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:32.88,0:01:34.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a sex worker--
Dialogue: 0,0:01:34.05,0:01:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but the information is so scarce.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.88,0:01:42.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When I was trying to construct the narrative\Nof this woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:42.87,0:01:45.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,at first, I was trying to make it more about\Nher
Dialogue: 0,0:01:45.12,0:01:47.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and imagining what would happen to her.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.43,0:01:53.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I felt like I didn't want to fictionalize\Nsomething
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.45,0:01:57.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that was so completely lost to history.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:57.00,0:01:58.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And so rather than doing that,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:58.77,0:02:03.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I put her in these bookends of these male\Ncharacters
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.65,0:02:07.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that provide what information we do have about\Nthese women,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:07.29,0:02:11.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and that was the medical officer and the soldiers\Nthat visited them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:11.48,0:02:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and wrote about them
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.59,0:02:15.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and let us know that they were there at all.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.43,0:02:20.30,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I learned the Classics at my Father's Knee.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:21.20,0:02:22.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[hymen karate fest!]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.15,0:02:24.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He put verses in my mouth,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:24.80,0:02:26.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which I’d mangle.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:26.11,0:02:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[fret thy namesake!]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:27.66,0:02:30.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A forgetful, and a frigid prodigy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:30.46,0:02:31.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[my frank aesthete!]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.53,0:02:33.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,unable to express my Sturm and Drangle...
Dialogue: 0,0:02:34.76,0:02:36.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Trauma, as experienced by women,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:36.43,0:02:43.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is often cut off quite deliberately from artistic\Nexpression or artistic experience.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.22,0:02:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[I'll take my six percent saline solution,]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:44.20,0:02:45.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[and flush away the Species most invasive,]
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.33,0:02:48.78,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,--Many men who did all kinds of work during\Nthe first World War
Dialogue: 0,0:02:48.78,0:02:50.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would have written poetry--
Dialogue: 0,0:02:50.19,0:02:52.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they would have written a memoir.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:52.11,0:02:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Women just didn't have those kinds of opportunities
Dialogue: 0,0:02:55.42,0:02:58.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to process what had happened to them,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:58.28,0:03:01.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they couldn't put the trauma anywhere other\Nthan
Dialogue: 0,0:03:01.82,0:03:05.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,into the deep dark recess of history.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.08,0:03:10.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In terms of what my role is in it,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:10.84,0:03:16.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it's almost the only way that you can reconstitute\Nthat experience that is so lost
Dialogue: 0,0:03:16.56,0:03:20.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is through art, is through imagination.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.02,0:03:21.87,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Do you recall my home?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.87,0:03:23.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It was en route.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.31,0:03:27.09,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Your army sacked it as I bawled my eyes out--
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.09,0:03:29.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,quite helplessly--but in this setting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.71,0:03:32.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I'm Alpha Female, and I'm Alpha Betting
Dialogue: 0,0:03:32.51,0:03:36.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That you can author, but can’t spell, disaster.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.65,0:03:39.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You're slow to learn, which makes the clean\Nup faster.