Surprised By Oxford (2023) Subtitles

At 00:01:20,558, Character said: Full disclosure,

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At 00:01:22,734, Character said: when I charted
the course of my life

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At 00:01:24,736, Character said: and set off
for the distant horizon,

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At 00:01:27,696, Character said: this isn't exactly
what I had in mind.

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At 00:01:31,917, Character said: Aristotle had this idea,
that man is teleological.

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At 00:01:36,792, Character said: We're driven by a goal, a telos.

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At 00:01:41,884, Character said: For as long as I could remember,

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At 00:01:44,016, Character said: my destination
was never in question.

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At 00:01:46,758, Character said: I knew exactly
where I was going.

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At 00:01:50,284, Character said: Or so I thought.

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At 00:01:52,329, Character said: But that was before Oxford.

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At 00:01:55,376, Character said: That was before
everything changed.

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At 00:02:00,816, Character said: You understand this is a
highly coveted program, Carolyn.

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At 00:02:04,472, Character said: One of the defining
characteristics of our students

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At 00:02:07,431, Character said: is ambition,
a sense of a higher calling.

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At 00:02:10,434, Character said: Tell us, Carolyn, what
do you want most in life?

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At 00:02:15,439, Character said: My teacher says the problem is unsolvable.

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At 00:02:19,269, Character said: Well, clearly she doesn't
know who she's dealing with.

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At 00:02:22,446, Character said: But what if I can't do it?

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At 00:02:24,970, Character said: I don't know any other kid
that read the Iliad at seven.

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At 00:02:27,669, Character said: Six. The Odyssey at seven.

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At 00:02:31,890, Character said: You've been given a gift, kiddo.

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At 00:02:38,332, Character said: Knowledge is power.

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At 00:02:45,817, Character said: Mark it out.

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At 00:02:59,222, Character said: Okay.

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At 00:03:00,702, Character said: Okay, ready.

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At 00:03:19,721, Character said: No...

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At 00:03:24,465, Character said: No. No!

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At 00:03:35,389, Character said: In one moment, my entire world imploded.

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At 00:03:40,002, Character said: The father I knew,

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At 00:03:42,439, Character said: the man I trusted with my life...

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At 00:03:44,746, Character said: Was an elaborate
work of fiction.

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At 00:03:46,965, Character said: Local businessman
Charles Drake was arraigned today

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At 00:03:49,054, Character said: on multiple felony charges.

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At 00:03:50,795, Character said: While Mom prayed the rosary,

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At 00:03:52,188, Character said: I moved on from childish things.

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At 00:03:54,538, Character said: There was no
mystical intervention. Only knowledge.

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At 00:03:58,150, Character said: Can you think of a time when you wanted
to click your ruby slippers and go home?

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At 00:04:02,546, Character said: The slippers are silver,
not ruby.

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At 00:04:04,983, Character said: They're silver in the book,
ruby in the movie.

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At 00:04:07,595, Character said: Doesn't matter
what color they are.

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At 00:04:09,161, Character said: Unless, like the movie,
you want to ignore

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At 00:04:12,034, Character said: the obvious political allegory
at the heart of the novel.

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At 00:04:14,645, Character said: It's clearly a debate with the gold
standard, hence the silver slippers.

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At 00:04:18,040, Character said: It's a fable. Okay?

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At 00:04:20,608, Character said: - Fantasy.
- About politics in the early 20th century.

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At 00:04:23,698, Character said: - That's enough. Thank you.
- But we're talking about the book.

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At 00:04:28,050, Character said: So if you asked me about my higher calling,

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At 00:04:30,618, Character said: what I wanted most in life,

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At 00:04:32,402, Character said: I could say
with full confidence...

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At 00:04:34,230, Character said: A doctorate.

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At 00:04:43,413, Character said: I doubled down.

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At 00:04:45,241, Character said: I was the consummate
overachiever.

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At 00:04:48,200, Character said: I breezed through high school
without breaking a sweat.

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At 00:04:50,768, Character said: As Swinburne said, "Glory to man in the
highest for man is master of things."

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At 00:04:54,381, Character said: That was not a part
of the assigned reading list.

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At 00:04:57,601, Character said: What do you want me to say?

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At 00:04:59,864, Character said: With Dad out of the picture
and Mom back to work full-time,

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At 00:05:02,563, Character said: we were barely scraping by.

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At 00:05:04,521, Character said: So I picked up the slack.

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At 00:05:05,870, Character said: And, and a Dr Pepper's.

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At 00:05:07,307, Character said: The parmesan thing is ours.

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At 00:05:08,786, Character said: - Yeah...
- Okay. Uh, anything else, guys?

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At 00:05:11,441, Character said: Couple of things come to mind.

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At 00:05:18,622, Character said: Assholes.

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At 00:05:20,972, Character said: College came in the form
of a full undergraduate scholarship

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At 00:05:24,062, Character said: so long as I maintained straight As in
all courses every year for four years.

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At 00:05:35,204, Character said: Cool.

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At 00:05:36,988, Character said: In short, Donne's Holy Sonnet 14

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At 00:05:39,643, Character said: is a classic subversion
by the dominant patriarchy,

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At 00:05:42,864, Character said: whether it be the church
or the male construction of God,

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At 00:05:46,694, Character said: of the threat posed
by maternal power or the feminine spiritus.

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At 00:05:52,264, Character said: Thank you.

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At 00:05:54,702, Character said: Impressive as usual.
You presented

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At 00:05:57,661, Character said: a thoughtful analysis
of the poem.

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At 00:06:01,491, Character said: But if I may be so bold,

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At 00:06:03,537, Character said: it, it struck me
as a grand adventure,

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At 00:06:06,148, Character said: and you're missing the point.

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At 00:06:11,675, Character said: Oh, sorry, I'm confused.

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At 00:06:13,851, Character said: Donne is saying that anything
without eternal significance...

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At 00:06:18,943, Character said: uh, is ultimately
doomed to futility.

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At 00:06:24,079, Character said: The truth I...
Is in the paradox. Hmm?

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At 00:06:28,300, Character said: Everything else is bullshit.

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At 00:06:32,653, Character said: - Right.
- Carol, what I'm saying to you is your purpose in life...

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At 00:06:38,702, Character said: is to discern the, the real...

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At 00:06:42,663, Character said: from the bullshit.

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At 00:06:46,014, Character said: Fortis est veritas.

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At 00:06:50,497, Character said: The truth is strong.

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At 00:06:52,368, Character said: Of course, you know your Latin.
You know many things.

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At 00:06:54,892, Character said: "But he that increaseth
knowledge increaseth sorrow."

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At 00:07:01,333, Character said: ** I right?

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At 00:07:09,951, Character said: The truth, indeed...

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At 00:07:12,301, Character said: is strong, Carol.

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At 00:07:15,783, Character said: And you will know when you are
properly ravished by it.

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At 00:07:21,397, Character said: As our friend, Mr. Donne,
so eloquently put it.

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At 00:07:54,125, Character said: This is a letter
from the University of Oxford.

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At 00:07:56,954, Character said: What does it say?

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At 00:07:59,522, Character said: It says I won a scholarship.

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At 00:08:02,133, Character said: When did you apply
for a scholarship?

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At 00:08:04,092, Character said: It was Dr. Deveaux's idea.

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At 00:08:05,485, Character said: But I thought
it was a long shot.

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At 00:08:06,964, Character said: "Meritorious scholarship
awarded on the basis

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At 00:08:08,705, Character said: of outstanding academic merit."

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At 00:08:10,707, Character said: - I need to think.
- "A full ride to Oxford."

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At 00:08:13,231, Character said: - I...
- What is there to think about?

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At 00:08:15,059, Character said: I'm just in shock.

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At 00:08:16,757, Character said: You have every right
to be in shock. This is big.

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At 00:08:19,455, Character said: I'm so proud of you.

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At 00:08:20,674, Character said: It took me about

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At 00:08:21,675, Character said: five seconds to decide.

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At 00:08:23,415, Character said: I was going to Oxford, England,

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At 00:08:25,417, Character said: - for my postgraduate studies.
- Okay, well, let's start

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At 00:08:27,158, Character said: with these papers here.

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At 00:08:28,464, Character said: "Society
and mingling allowance."

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At 00:08:31,032, Character said: - What does mingling entail?
- I was on track

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At 00:08:33,077, Character said: to get my master's degree
in English literature.

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At 00:08:35,558, Character said: But it was up to me
to decide what period I wanted to focus on.

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At 00:08:39,475, Character said: I landed
on the Romantic writers,

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At 00:08:41,608, Character said: known for their poetic feeling
and longing for the infinite.

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At 00:08:46,874, Character said: The University of Oxford
is not one college.

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At 00:08:49,311, Character said: It's made up of 38 self-governing
colleges and six private halls.

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At 00:08:53,881, Character said: I was assigned
to Tirian College,

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At 00:08:56,318, Character said: which is roughly 400 years
older than America.

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At 00:08:59,495, Character said: The school year is divided
into three terms.

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At 00:09:01,236, Character said: Michaelmas, Hilary, and Trinity.

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At 00:09:25,521, Character said: So I set off
into the great unknown...

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At 00:09:29,351, Character said: sane and unhaunted...

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At 00:09:33,660, Character said: and driven by a singular desire.

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At 00:10:04,516, Character said: Last stop, Oxford.

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At 00:10:09,652, Character said: Last stop, Oxford.

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At 00:10:12,307, Character said: Oh, sorry....