Lesson+2

media type="custom" key="27647720" This is a [|play]called "Sell/Buy/Date." It's my first since "Bridge and Tunnel," which I did on Broadway,and this one, I -- thank you -- I've excerpted it just for you, so here we go.

Right. Class, let's be absolutely [|certain]all electronic devices are switched off before we begin. So class, hopefully you'll [|recognize]what you just heard me say as the -- ? Very good, the cellular phone [|announcement]. Right? This was also known as a mobile phone. So you'll remember, people of that era would have had an [|external]electronic [|device], right, something like this, and they all would have carried one of these around with them, and among their biggest fears was the [|sheer][|mortification]that one of these might ring at some [|inopportune]moment. Right? So a bit of [|trivia]about that [|era]for you. ([|Laughter])

So the format of today's class is I will be presenting [|multiple]BERT [|modules]today from that period in history, right, so starting circa 2016. And [|remember], this was the very first year of the BERT program. So we've got quite a few of these to get [|through]. [|Bear]in mind, I will be living into various different bodies,different ages, also what were then called [|races], or ethnic groups, as you'll remember from Unit 1. And -- (Laughter) -- and along the [|gender][|continuum], I will be living into [|males]as well. It was quite binary at that time. (Laughter) Also, don't forget, we are reading the book module for next week's focus on gender.Now, I know some of you have [|requested]the book in [|pill]form. I know people still believe [|ingesting]it is better for [|retention], but since we are trying to experience what our [|forebears]did, right, let's please just [|consider]doing the actual [|ocular]reading, okay? And also, how many people have your emotional [|shunts][|engaged]? Right. Please [|toggle]them off. Okay? I know it's [|challenging], but I want you to be able to feel the [|entire]natural emo range, all right? It is [|essential]to this part of the [|syllabus]. Yes, Macy? All right. I understand. If you're unwilling to -- All right, well, we can discuss that after class. All right, we will discuss your [|concerns]. Just relax. Nobody's died and gone to [|composting]. Okay. After class. Okay? After class.Let's just get started, okay. This first subject identified as a middle-class homemaker. Remember, these early [|modules]in these people's full identities were [|protected], and this [|allowed]them to speak more freely on our topic, which for many of them was [|taboo].