and i did my graduate work on the structure of william faulkner's novels and. so i, i learned to be able to write long, complicated science books partly studying william faulkner. anyway, no outline, just started to write. and who's the first voice that would help me tell this story? the murmurs in december of 2019? well it's that fellow henry easley, the chinese scientist who is now in philadelphia studying, coronaviruses in the lab of susan weiss, a great coronavirus researcher. so i talked to henry lee about what he had learned through wechat from his friends back in shanghai in, the closing days of december 20, 20. and i talked to susan weiss and she heard from henry lee that. this is a coronavirus. so she immediately we're going to work on it, order some masks, order some more gowns, order some more personal protective equipment. we're starting as of january 2nd to work on this virus. and then there was marjorie pollack, who was the deputy editor of an internal national infectious disease alert service known as promed, who picked up rumors about this on ne

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to my first and second books, i did a graduate degree on the structure and the novels of william faulkner. i am deeply listed in faulkner -- was deeply interested in faulkner for about 11 years. it was not completely irrelevant to my later career writing about science, writing long, complicated books about things like island geography and extinction. or in the tangled tree, i wrote about molecular genetics, the redrawing of the tree of life. these are long, complicated books filled with scientific facts. in the stories, and they are carefully structured, although they are not obviously structured, they are structured in a way that i hope draws the reader forward, picking up one thread of a mystery story and shifting to another place and time, cleaning up another threat of a scientific story -- picking up another thunder bay center stripe. and tingles all of them with threads of narrative, history, and science. i have said this before. i do not think i would've been able to structure those books if i had not spent years looking closely at the novels of the involved or -- novels of william

erskine was the last editor for william faulkner. actually. and mccarthy's early books are quite indebted to faulkner and faulkner's style. so when mccarthy's first manuscript came across the transom at random house and mccarthy sent it to random house, he sent a what i found in the archives described as a poorly typed manuscript of his first novel. he just sent it into random house. he addressed as envelope to random house and eventually the manuscript reached erskine's desk. erskine had read the manuscript and he saw something that he recognized from faulkner, something in the style that that spoke to him in a similar way. and he thought, here's a writer that has something special. and so he worked with mccarthy through that first book, through the next several books. and in each of them, he thought these books were great, and he thought they deserved a major audience. and a big reception. and he worked erskine worked to help mccarthy continue to write by using erskine's own networks with writers like robert penn, warren, ralph ellison, saul

science but literature and graduate work and i learned long collocated science books by setting william faulkner and who is the first voice. we and encoding setting coronavirus, a greatat coronavis and henry lee about what he has learned in shanghai and i took to susan weiss and believed this is a coronavirus so she immediately said we are going to order more maps and starting generally second looking att and there was marjorie polish who wasy deputy editor of the international disease or lip service picked up rumors about this from a new year's eve 2019 and a scientist in shanghai who studies virus is an got a hold of samples from the first patients in wuhan shifting him in a metal container, coffee and to work on a sequence the genome of the virus assembly transforming it into dna so a little more stable to work with. sequencing piecing the fragments together like a jigsaw puzzle to get the complete 30,000 letters genome of the new virus is by january 5, he headed but chinese authorities national health commission was saying don't talk about this, don't work on this, do not publish anything ab

things that is going on during extradition administration because due to watergate you just william faulknernd so it's a growing popularity unpopular repeat of the vietnam war and you struggle to bring that to an end and so he's also involved in training. and so kissinger after kind of work on this is being person representing nixon's and everything. nixon in this administration it's one of the most insidious administrations ever in terms of domestic issues and at the same time, one issues that are very pressing because we're still kind of at the height of the cold war. i mean, we just got to review the cuban missile crisis just previously. and you have all of this going on and seem america is coming apart. and so nixon is trying to pull things together at the same time. well, people really are kind of just watching out for trust to go on. nixon could have easily stepped in, but leonard garment said, and he tells leonard garment, it's garment goes to nixon and he says, hey, what do i need to do? and the nixon says, just let them chill. let them have their moment for a time. and he does this

and there's a color full chapter in this book that starts with a looking at william faulkner, a very famous writer in american history, his funeral and how hot it was in oxford, mississippi in faulkner, heated air conditioning. but air conditioning is the, one of the ways that, that we have been able to manage those temperatures in and, and heat, so to speak. but i'm really interested in the geo political dimensions of that, or even the internal dimensions that have versus have nots in providing what, what jeff calls, you know, cheap, cold air. and, and where are we do you think? and nat geo political divide around the world. because a lot of people in africa was say, hey, we've been here already for a lot longer than you folks. yes, that's true. and i think that, you know, we, we wrote about cut r as a example of, you know, where the, one of the richest places in the world, one of the richest places. so air conditioning is exploding and cut are and, and it's interesting also because it's not just the question of high temperatures. it's also question of the lower temperatures and the

i hadn't even read william faulkner yet. but it ends in defeat. it is a huge debacle i'll say that with obviously having read about battle of it, it's a bad mistake and it really can't be. i mean, you can all i can offer a whole hour's worth of excuses on why i did it but i can't really justify it in the end. robert ely, if he ran out of options, would hit you head on and we have some books on the seven days campaign back there. we some books on the battle of the wilderness. look at the pattern in robert e lee. he hit head on if he runs out of options. and that's just pickett's charge, that's robert e lee. so union army pursues, the confederate army. and here's one of the great what ifs of the american civil war. i wish i had more time to spend it, but they bottle up the union army, ends up having an opportunity to bottle up lee's army next to the potomac river over here to the left, around a place called williamsport, maryland. and george made you think that. george meade is just one. the battle of gettysburg. i mean, the man was placed in comman

and william faulkner said, the past is never dead. it's not even passed, right?g confronted with the legacy of our history in america, which is why it's important, again, for us to learn about it so we are able to learn from it and not repeat the mistakes of the past. look, violent should never be the answer. it does present an option when you have these white people who were asked to move their boats or their vote could not. they refused to comply. this incident is bringing up a history of violence against black people. in history that continues until this day. what is left comment, and what i think is really resonating with folks who are watching this video is to see black people retaliating in a way that feels, to many people, like a justice that they seldom get. there have been a likely will be more arrests in this incident. it is gonna work its way to the legal system to determine what crimes, if any, were committed and by whom. to the mayor's point, this moment also continues to be a mirror into our country. and into our unresolved history and relationship

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