This is unusual for me. I have given readings and not lectures. I have told people who ask for lectures that I have no lecture to give. And that is true.
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People don't listen when you lecture. No one wants to be talked down to or scolded.
I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.
When I lecture, under almost all circumstances, I write a new lecture for the occasion. It helps me think. It helps me make demands of myself that I would not otherwise make.
A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other.
Professors simply can't discuss a thing. Habit compels them to deliver a lecture.
I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
Then there are the people who know me from the lectures. What I am really trying to do, what I need to accomplish at this time, is to fill in the gaps.
My intention to lecture is as vague as my intention is to go on the stage. I will never consider an offer to lecture, not because I despise the vocation, but because I have no desire to appear on the public rostrum.
I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.
You won't catch me giving clear lectures.
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