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Dialogue: 0,0:00:01.62,0:00:03.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So when I was eight years old,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:03.58,0:00:05.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a new girl came to join the class,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:05.74,0:00:08.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and she was so impressive,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:08.77,0:00:11.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as the new girl always seems to be.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:11.06,0:00:13.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She had vast quantities of very shiny hair
Dialogue: 0,0:00:13.73,0:00:16.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and a cute little pencil case,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:16.77,0:00:20.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,super strong on state capitals,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:20.36,0:00:22.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a great speller.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:22.85,0:00:27.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I just curdled with jealousy that year,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:27.80,0:00:31.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,until I hatched my devious plan.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:31.35,0:00:35.58,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So one day I stayed a little late after school,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:35.58,0:00:39.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a little too late, and I lurked in the girl's bathroom.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:39.66,0:00:41.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When the coast was clear, I emerged,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:41.99,0:00:43.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crept into the classroom,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:43.73,0:00:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and took from my teacher's desk the grade book.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:47.59,0:00:49.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And then I did it.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:49.93,0:00:52.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I fiddled with my rival's grades,
Dialogue: 0,0:00:52.29,0:00:55.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a little, just demoted some of those A's.
Dialogue: 0,0:00:55.12,0:00:58.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,All of those A's. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:00:58.22,0:01:01.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I got ready to return the book to the drawer,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:01.96,0:01:04.100,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when hang on, some of my other classmates
Dialogue: 0,0:01:04.100,0:01:08.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,had appallingly good grades too.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:08.49,0:01:10.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So, in a frenzy,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:10.54,0:01:12.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I corrected everybody's marks,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:12.53,0:01:14.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,not imaginatively.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:14.44,0:01:16.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I gave everybody a row of D's
Dialogue: 0,0:01:16.95,0:01:19.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I gave myself a row of A's,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:19.75,0:01:22.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just because I was there, you know, might as well.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:22.55,0:01:28.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And I am still baffled by my behavior.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:28.16,0:01:30.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand where the idea came from.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:30.57,0:01:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand why I felt so great doing it.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:33.90,0:01:35.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I felt great.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:35.43,0:01:38.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't understand why I was never caught.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:38.00,0:01:39.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, it should have been so blatantly obvious.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:39.60,0:01:40.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I was never caught.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:40.91,0:01:43.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But most of all, I am baffled by,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:43.44,0:01:44.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,why did it bother me so much
Dialogue: 0,0:01:44.94,0:01:46.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that this little girl, this tiny little girl,
Dialogue: 0,0:01:46.89,0:01:48.60,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,was so good at spelling?
Dialogue: 0,0:01:48.60,0:01:50.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealousy baffles me.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:50.71,0:01:53.63,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's so mysterious, and it's so pervasive.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:53.63,0:01:56.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know babies suffer from jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:56.10,0:01:59.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know primates do. Bluebirds are actually very prone.
Dialogue: 0,0:01:59.75,0:02:03.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We know that jealousy is the number one cause
Dialogue: 0,0:02:03.27,0:02:06.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,of spousal murder in the United States.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:06.19,0:02:09.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And yet, I have never read a study
Dialogue: 0,0:02:09.29,0:02:12.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that can parse to me its loneliness
Dialogue: 0,0:02:12.20,0:02:17.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or its longevity or its grim thrill.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:17.06,0:02:19.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For that, we have to go to fiction,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:19.91,0:02:22.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because the novel is the lab
Dialogue: 0,0:02:22.25,0:02:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that has studied jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:02:23.82,0:02:25.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in every possible configuration.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:25.89,0:02:29.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, I don't know if it's an exaggeration to say
Dialogue: 0,0:02:29.22,0:02:31.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that if we didn't have jealousy,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:31.25,0:02:33.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,would we even have literature?
Dialogue: 0,0:02:33.80,0:02:37.39,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well no faithless Helen, no "Odyssey."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:37.39,0:02:40.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No jealous king, no "Arabian Nights."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:40.23,0:02:43.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No Shakespeare.
Dialogue: 0,0:02:43.36,0:02:45.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,There goes high school reading lists,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:45.56,0:02:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because we're losing "Sound and the Fury,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:47.37,0:02:49.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're losing "Gatsby," "Son Also Rises,"
Dialogue: 0,0:02:49.62,0:02:53.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we're losing "Madame Bovary," "Anna K."
Dialogue: 0,0:02:53.74,0:02:56.15,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No jealousy, no Proust. And now, I mean,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:56.15,0:02:57.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I know it's fashionable to say that Proust
Dialogue: 0,0:02:57.91,0:02:59.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,has the answers to everything,
Dialogue: 0,0:02:59.52,0:03:02.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the case of jealousy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:02.22,0:03:04.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he kind of does.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:04.96,0:03:08.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This year is the centennial of his masterpiece, "In Search of Lost Time,"
Dialogue: 0,0:03:08.95,0:03:12.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and it's the most exhaustive study of sexual jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:03:12.95,0:03:15.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and just regular competitiveness, my brand,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:15.10,0:03:17.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that we can hope to have. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:03:17.69,0:03:20.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And we think about Proust, we think
Dialogue: 0,0:03:20.12,0:03:21.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,about the sentimental bits, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:21.61,0:03:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think about a little boy trying to get to sleep.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:23.56,0:03:27.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We think about a madeleine moistened in lavender tea.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:27.75,0:03:29.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forget how harsh his vision was.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:29.77,0:03:31.61,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We forget how pitiless he is.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:31.61,0:03:33.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, these are books that Virginia Woolf said
Dialogue: 0,0:03:33.93,0:03:36.27,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were tough as cat gut.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:36.27,0:03:38.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know what cat gut is,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:38.32,0:03:41.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but let's assume it's formidable.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:41.22,0:03:44.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's look at why they go so well together,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:44.44,0:03:48.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the novel and jealousy, jealousy and Proust.
Dialogue: 0,0:03:48.11,0:03:51.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is it something as obvious as that jealousy,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:51.34,0:03:54.73,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,which boils down into person, desire, impediment,
Dialogue: 0,0:03:54.73,0:03:59.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is such a solid narrative foundation?
Dialogue: 0,0:03:59.40,0:04:02.07,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I don't know. I think it cuts very close to the bone,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:02.07,0:04:04.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because let's think about what happens
Dialogue: 0,0:04:04.12,0:04:05.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when we feel jealous.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:05.90,0:04:09.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When we feel jealous, we tell ourselves a story.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:09.85,0:04:14.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We tell ourselves a story about other people's lives,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:14.13,0:04:16.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these stories make us feel terrible
Dialogue: 0,0:04:16.81,0:04:19.03,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because they're designed to make us feel terrible.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:19.03,0:04:21.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,As the teller of the tale and the audience,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:21.56,0:04:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,we know just what details to include,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:23.54,0:04:27.11,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to dig that knife in. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:04:27.11,0:04:30.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealousy makes us all amateur novelists,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:30.46,0:04:32.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and this is something Proust understood.
Dialogue: 0,0:04:32.48,0:04:35.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In the first volume, Swann's Way,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:35.65,0:04:37.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the series of books,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:37.48,0:04:39.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Swann, one of the main characters,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:39.18,0:04:42.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,is thinking very fondly of his mistress
Dialogue: 0,0:04:42.41,0:04:44.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and how great she is in bed,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:44.10,0:04:47.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly, in the course of a few sentences,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:47.14,0:04:49.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and these are Proustian sentences,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:49.18,0:04:50.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,so they're long as rivers,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:50.70,0:04:52.96,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but in the course of a few sentences,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:52.96,0:04:55.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he suddenly recoils and he realizes,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:55.37,0:04:58.65,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"Hang on, everything I love about this woman,
Dialogue: 0,0:04:58.65,0:05:02.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody else would love about this woman.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:02.42,0:05:05.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Everything that she does that gives me pleasure
Dialogue: 0,0:05:05.51,0:05:07.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,could be giving somebody else pleasure,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:07.22,0:05:09.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,maybe right about now."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:09.50,0:05:12.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is the story he starts to tell himself,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:12.28,0:05:14.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and from then on, Proust writes that
Dialogue: 0,0:05:14.14,0:05:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,every fresh charm Swann detects in his mistress,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:17.19,0:05:19.86,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he adds to his "collection of instruments
Dialogue: 0,0:05:19.86,0:05:23.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in his private torture chamber."
Dialogue: 0,0:05:23.48,0:05:25.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Swann and Proust, we have to admit,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:25.75,0:05:27.43,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,were notoriously jealous.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:27.43,0:05:29.13,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, Proust's boyfriends would have to leave
Dialogue: 0,0:05:29.13,0:05:31.74,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the country if they wanted to break up with him.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:31.74,0:05:34.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But you don't have to be that jealous
Dialogue: 0,0:05:34.64,0:05:37.55,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to concede that it's hard work. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:37.55,0:05:39.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealous is exhausting.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:39.16,0:05:42.81,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's a hungry emotion. It must be fed.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:42.81,0:05:44.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And what does jealousy like?
Dialogue: 0,0:05:44.90,0:05:47.99,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealously likes information.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:47.99,0:05:50.38,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealously likes details.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:50.38,0:05:53.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealously likes the vast quantities of shiny hair,
Dialogue: 0,0:05:53.20,0:05:55.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the cute little pencil case.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:55.66,0:05:57.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealously likes photos.
Dialogue: 0,0:05:57.21,0:06:00.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's why Instagram is such a hit. (Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:06:00.94,0:06:04.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Proust actually links the language of scholarship and jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:04.90,0:06:07.34,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When Swann is in his jealous throes,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:07.34,0:06:09.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and suddenly he's listening at doorways
Dialogue: 0,0:06:09.51,0:06:11.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and bribing his mistress' servants,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:11.53,0:06:12.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he defends these behaviors.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:12.98,0:06:15.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "You know, look, I know you think this is repugnant,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:15.40,0:06:17.21,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is no different
Dialogue: 0,0:06:17.21,0:06:19.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from interpreting an ancient text
Dialogue: 0,0:06:19.56,0:06:21.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or looking at a monument."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:21.22,0:06:23.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "They are scientific investigations
Dialogue: 0,0:06:23.82,0:06:26.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with real intellectual value."
Dialogue: 0,0:06:26.82,0:06:28.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Proust is trying to show us that jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:06:28.94,0:06:31.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,feels intolerable and makes us look absurd,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:31.83,0:06:36.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but it is, at its crux, a quest for knowledge,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:36.50,0:06:39.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a quest for truth, painful truth,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:39.90,0:06:41.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and actually, where Proust is concerned,
Dialogue: 0,0:06:41.83,0:06:44.62,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more painful the truth, the better.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:44.62,0:06:49.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Grief, humiliation, loss:
Dialogue: 0,0:06:49.36,0:06:52.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,These were the avenues to wisdom for Proust.
Dialogue: 0,0:06:52.31,0:06:56.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,He says, "A woman whom we need
Dialogue: 0,0:06:56.22,0:06:59.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who makes us suffer elicits from us
Dialogue: 0,0:06:59.00,0:07:02.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,a gamut of feelings far more profound and vital
Dialogue: 0,0:07:02.51,0:07:06.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,than a man of genius who interests us."
Dialogue: 0,0:07:06.94,0:07:09.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is he telling us to just go and find cruel women?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:09.82,0:07:12.12,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,No. I think he's trying to say
Dialogue: 0,0:07:12.12,0:07:15.29,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that jealousy reveals us to ourselves.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:15.29,0:07:18.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And does any other emotion crack us open
Dialogue: 0,0:07:18.18,0:07:20.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in this particular way?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:20.51,0:07:22.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does any other emotion reveal to us
Dialogue: 0,0:07:22.59,0:07:25.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,our aggression and our hideous ambition
Dialogue: 0,0:07:25.92,0:07:28.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and our entitlement?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:28.32,0:07:30.97,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does any other emotion teach us to look
Dialogue: 0,0:07:30.97,0:07:34.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with such peculiar intensity?
Dialogue: 0,0:07:34.16,0:07:36.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Freud would write about this later.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:36.32,0:07:38.57,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,One day, Freud was visited
Dialogue: 0,0:07:38.57,0:07:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,by this very anxious young man who was consumed
Dialogue: 0,0:07:40.89,0:07:43.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,with the thought of his wife cheating on him.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:43.40,0:07:45.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And Freud says, it's something strange about this guy,
Dialogue: 0,0:07:45.47,0:07:47.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,because he's not looking at what his wife is doing.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:47.59,0:07:49.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because she's blameless; everybody knows it.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:49.56,0:07:50.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The poor creature is just
Dialogue: 0,0:07:50.89,0:07:52.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,under suspicion for no cause.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:52.88,0:07:55.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But he's looking for things that his wife is doing
Dialogue: 0,0:07:55.69,0:07:58.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,without noticing, unintentional behaviors.
Dialogue: 0,0:07:58.19,0:08:00.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Is she smiling too brightly here,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:00.51,0:08:03.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or did she accidentally brush up against a man there?
Dialogue: 0,0:08:03.85,0:08:06.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,[Freud] says that the man is becoming
Dialogue: 0,0:08:06.53,0:08:10.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the custodian of his wife's unconscious.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:10.88,0:08:12.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The novel is very good on this point.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:12.70,0:08:15.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The novel is very good at describing how jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:08:15.50,0:08:19.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,trains us to look with intensity but not accuracy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:19.49,0:08:23.56,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,In fact, the more intensely jealous we are,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:23.56,0:08:26.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the more we become residents of fantasy.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:26.08,0:08:29.00,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And this is why, I think, jealousy doesn't
Dialogue: 0,0:08:29.00,0:08:31.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just provoke us to do violent things
Dialogue: 0,0:08:31.82,0:08:33.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or illegal things.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:33.82,0:08:36.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Jealousy prompts us to behave in ways
Dialogue: 0,0:08:36.10,0:08:38.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,that are wildly inventive.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:38.46,0:08:40.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now I'm thinking of myself at eight, I concede,
Dialogue: 0,0:08:40.90,0:08:44.92,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,but I'm also thinking of this story I heard on the news.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:44.92,0:08:48.83,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,A 52-year-old Michigan woman was caught
Dialogue: 0,0:08:48.83,0:08:51.70,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,creating a fake Facebook account
Dialogue: 0,0:08:51.70,0:08:55.42,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,from which she sent vile, hideous messages
Dialogue: 0,0:08:55.42,0:08:59.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to herself for a year.
Dialogue: 0,0:08:59.64,0:09:01.77,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,For a year. A year.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:01.77,0:09:03.64,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And she was trying to frame
Dialogue: 0,0:09:03.64,0:09:05.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,her ex-boyfriend's new girlfriend,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:05.80,0:09:09.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and I have to confess when I heard this,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:09.44,0:09:11.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I just reacted with admiration.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:11.36,0:09:12.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Laughter)
Dialogue: 0,0:09:12.93,0:09:15.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Because, I mean, let's be real.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:15.35,0:09:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What immense, if misplaced, creativity. Right?
Dialogue: 0,0:09:19.66,0:09:22.08,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something from a novel.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:22.08,0:09:25.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,This is something from a Patricia Highsmith novel.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:25.48,0:09:27.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now Highsmith is a particular favorite of mine.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:27.66,0:09:31.71,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She is the very brilliant and bizarre woman of American letters.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:31.71,0:09:33.90,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,She's the author of "Strangers on a Train"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:33.90,0:09:35.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and "The Talented Mr. Ripley,"
Dialogue: 0,0:09:35.95,0:09:39.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,books that are all about how jealousy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:39.01,0:09:40.89,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,it muddles our minds,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:40.89,0:09:43.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and once we're in the sphere, in that realm of jealousy,
Dialogue: 0,0:09:43.88,0:09:49.14,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,the membrane between what is and what could be
Dialogue: 0,0:09:49.14,0:09:52.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,can be pierced in an instant.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:52.04,0:09:54.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Take Tom Ripley, her most famous character.
Dialogue: 0,0:09:54.49,0:09:57.32,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Now, Tom Ripley goes from wanting you
Dialogue: 0,0:09:57.32,0:09:59.50,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,or wanting what you have
Dialogue: 0,0:09:59.50,0:10:02.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,to being you and having what you once had,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:02.93,0:10:04.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and you're under the floorboards,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:04.46,0:10:05.82,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's answering to your name,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:05.82,0:10:07.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,he's wearing your rings,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:07.52,0:10:09.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,emptying your bank account.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:09.52,0:10:11.49,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,That's one way to go.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:11.49,0:10:15.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But what do we do? We can't go the Tom Ripley route.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:15.16,0:10:17.19,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I can't give the world D's,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:17.19,0:10:20.04,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as much as I would really like to some days.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:20.04,0:10:23.54,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And it's a pity, because we live in envious times.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:23.54,0:10:26.45,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We live in jealous times.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:26.45,0:10:28.46,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,I mean, we're all good citizens of social media,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:28.46,0:10:31.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,aren't we, where the currency is envy?
Dialogue: 0,0:10:31.84,0:10:36.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Does the novel show us a way out? I'm not sure.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:36.31,0:10:39.75,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So let's do what characters always do when they're not sure,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:39.75,0:10:41.93,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,when they are in possession of a mystery.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:41.93,0:10:44.20,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Let's go to 221B Baker Street
Dialogue: 0,0:10:44.20,0:10:46.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and ask for Sherlock Holmes.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:46.22,0:10:48.69,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,When people think of Holmes,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:48.69,0:10:51.80,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,they think of his nemesis being Professor Moriarty,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:51.80,0:10:54.01,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,right, this criminal mastermind.
Dialogue: 0,0:10:54.01,0:10:56.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I've always preferred [Inspector] Lestrade,
Dialogue: 0,0:10:56.47,0:10:59.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who is the rat-faced head of Scotland Yard
Dialogue: 0,0:10:59.37,0:11:01.10,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who needs Holmes desperately,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:01.10,0:11:03.41,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,needs Holmes' genius, but resents him.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:03.41,0:11:05.26,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Oh, it's so familiar to me.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:05.26,0:11:09.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So Lestrade needs his help, resents him,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:09.28,0:11:12.59,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and sort of seethes with bitterness over the course of the mysteries.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:12.59,0:11:16.47,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But as they work together, something starts to change,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:16.47,0:11:19.51,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,and finally in "The Adventure of the Six Napoleons,"
Dialogue: 0,0:11:19.51,0:11:23.44,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,once Holmes comes in, dazzles everybody with his solution,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:23.44,0:11:26.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Lestrade turns to Holmes and he says,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:26.88,0:11:31.16,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,"We're not jealous of you, Mr. Holmes.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:31.16,0:11:34.52,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We're proud of you."
Dialogue: 0,0:11:34.52,0:11:36.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And he says that there's not a man at Scotland Yard
Dialogue: 0,0:11:36.85,0:11:39.85,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,who wouldn't want to shake Sherlock Holmes' hand.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:39.85,0:11:42.24,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It's one of the few times we see Holmes moved
Dialogue: 0,0:11:42.24,0:11:44.33,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in the mysteries, and I find it very moving,
Dialogue: 0,0:11:44.33,0:11:47.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,this little scene, but it's also mysterious, right?
Dialogue: 0,0:11:47.40,0:11:49.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,It seems to treat jealousy
Dialogue: 0,0:11:49.31,0:11:52.05,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,as a problem of geometry, not emotion.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:52.05,0:11:54.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,You know, one minute Holmes is on the other side from Lestrade.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:54.91,0:11:56.84,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,The next minute they're on the same side.
Dialogue: 0,0:11:56.84,0:11:58.98,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Suddenly, Lestrade is letting himself
Dialogue: 0,0:11:58.98,0:12:01.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,admire this mind that he's resented.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:01.95,0:12:03.88,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Could it be so simple though?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:03.88,0:12:06.31,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,What if jealousy really is a matter of geometry,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:06.31,0:12:10.02,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,just a matter of where we allow ourselves to stand
Dialogue: 0,0:12:10.02,0:12:12.35,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,in relation to another?
Dialogue: 0,0:12:12.35,0:12:14.22,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Well, maybe then we wouldn't have to resent
Dialogue: 0,0:12:14.22,0:12:16.28,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,somebody's excellence.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:16.28,0:12:19.66,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We could align ourselves with it.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:19.66,0:12:21.91,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,But I like contingency plans.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:21.91,0:12:24.25,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,So while we wait for that to happen,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:24.25,0:12:26.94,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,let us remember that we have fiction for consolation.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:26.94,0:12:29.40,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fiction alone demystifies jealousy.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:29.40,0:12:31.48,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Fiction alone domesticates it,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:31.48,0:12:33.36,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,invites it to the table.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:33.36,0:12:35.23,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,And look who it gathers:
Dialogue: 0,0:12:35.23,0:12:39.06,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,sweet Lestrade, terrifying Tom Ripley,
Dialogue: 0,0:12:39.06,0:12:43.53,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,crazy Swann, Marcel Proust himself.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:43.53,0:12:45.95,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,We are in excellent company.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:45.95,0:12:47.37,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,Thank you.
Dialogue: 0,0:12:47.37,0:12:52.18,Default,,0000,0000,0000,,(Applause)