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I Feel Smart, I Feel Like I'm in Ireland

Gerald's audience isn't the public at large. It's the small amount of powerful people who actually make decisions and an act of violence. He would have started off reading this book over dinner. People are interested in, wow, i feel smart. I feel educated learning about fish and these badgers and these beavers. This is what gerald's book would have done for aristocratic audiences in the twelfth century. And let's read whats gerald about this woman who shifted a goat. The people would have been like, all my gods, so unchristian, so so savage. But all so it's the baza sex news, part of the british tabloid

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