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Thank you We sneak Margery cannon did she write the

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first autobiography Alas shmoop yeah more or less i mean

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it's hard though to even call it an autobiography and

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it's kind of a diary She keeps track of her

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spiritual visions but then also other people respond to them

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is you're kind of just getting a day to day

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record of what happened to her Not totally in retrospect

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as an autobiography would be but almost as it happens

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it's more like the spiritual autobiography right She's not thie

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idea is that she's writing this down so that like

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her grandkids will know what it was like for her

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on a daily basis all the stuff that's included that's

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about just her daily life is ultimately included for kind

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of referencing when the stuff mystically is happening right So

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she's ultimately interested in recording her religious experience on i

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also don't think she's writing it for anyone but herself

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necessarily She doesn't always understand what's happening to her and

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the people around her definitely understand what's happening to her

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so she's writing about these visions because there overwhelming It

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was also dictated though right Like even though it's it's

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presented as if it were a day to day thing

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there's like a whole story where she tried to get

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one guy to do it and then found out that

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basically everything transcribed was illegible to everybody else It was

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like a quack scribe that she just didn't know about

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And then she had to have some other dude do

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it all over again So it's it's also interesting to

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think about her as a woman getting a man to

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like take down these very banal right Like every day

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Yeah absolutely And that interferes with the story too I

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mean she's constantly being shut down by her men has

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thinks she's insane of course I mean we think she's

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a little insane You havin a good way keeping she's

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you know a disrespectful woman who doesn't understand her place

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And at this point she has tons of kids right

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Absolutely So she has other stuff to do as well

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But then she also has these mystic passions that keep

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overtaking her And i think that's how you can read

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her as a heroine in this novel The fact that

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she's pursuing pure passion there actually records of her about

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how she was always just like in tears on the

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street Having these mystical experiences right like the extremity with

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which she's emotionally feeling her connection to christ was not

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normal even at the time were like can you just

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like tone it down What did kemp write about in

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her book How did people respond to kem spirituals Vision 00:02:27.07 --> [endTime] She didn't have an iphone to record divisions

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