just chuck the fact that you're born with this American passport out the window man it almost doesn't matter to how you get treated in this country instead of kind nice thoughtful friendly amicable andrew you put harmless docile and weak in there as well guys a massive asian report has just dropped do we agree disagree if you're asian you're gonna want to see this andrew the status index report 2022 just dropped andrew you know how dad is always like yeah you guys uh talk a lot about asian america but where is your phd confirmed studies where is your empirical evidence andrew david well dad we have the data right here because 20 phd's a whole bunch of funding and surveying thousands of americans has all been summed up into this report guys it talks about race relations uh how asians are viewed in america and asian media representation we're gonna go through it does it confirm or debunk some of the things that we say on this channel i don't know we're gonna find out all right starting off the presentation race relations are they getting better or worse in america and guess what most americans say it is getting worse yeah i mean i think that this is a pretty common opinion if you look at the media there's so much like contentiousness from both sides left right up down andrew do you think it's a situation where like there was a lot of dust swept underneath the rug for years and now the dust dust is like more visible and out from underneath the rug or is there just way more dust than there ever has been are you kind of talking about how a lot of like people on the right will say hey well it's not going to be as racist if people just stop talking about racism as much and then the left is like no we have to talk these things out and then there's like that whole disagreement but like does talking about it make it worse i do think the truth is andre and this is my neutral perspective that talking about race relations is good in theory but when people do it the wrong way and they don't couple it with step by step incremental action it's actually worse for the whole situation so i do understand the conservative perspective it's like let's just bring it back to the 90s man sweep it back underneath the rug the rug can hold a lot of dust underneath the rug like you know just for the stability of society keep the dust under the rug well you know overall to end up this point i would say diversity is a beautiful thing it's an amazing thing it creates great products great perspectives but it is difficult and sometimes i do wish that there was like this overarching power that would watch over and kind of like help smooth things out instead of letting all these like random people on the internet do it or just random politicians that are supporting one side or the other they're literally has to be like a bilateral like race unity harmonious um uh governmental organization built up like seriously guys i really think point number two it is slide 16 and it talks about people's perception of who are the most discriminated people in america yeah i mean i think quite obviously it seems like uh everybody's like definitely you know looking out for themselves in this study yeah i mean unsurprisingly yeah if you look at it yeah i mean i do think most people agree that black people are the most discriminated against for a number of reasons that's a feeling right and then asians is number two and then latinos in a close third and then obviously white people at the bottom where yo look at white people responding for themselves saying 28 percent think that they're discriminated against every other minority went with eight nine and eight percent i guess andra my major takeaway is although there is some macro narratives that everybody's buying into about like white people being more privileged and black americans being more discriminated against i think that's pretty fair to say uh definitely in the details it seems like every group was sort of like more looking out for their own interests and i guess that's human right and or people see things they see the world through like their own lens from their own tribe one all right point number three slide number 18 if you've ever been caught off guard that your co-workers didn't really know about asian hate or that these asian attacks were happening this is why guys one third of americans are unaware that attacks against asian americans are increasing david are you shocked all right i think uh if you would have asked me two years ago i would have been shocked but we live in a major coastal city under new york city where there was a ton of anti asian hate attacks and i remember my friends that worked in certain non asian fields like high-level finance telling me that their co-workers were literally like completely unaware i mean let's be honest not everybody enter and that's in new york city let alone middle america can you imagine what if that's new york and the attacks were in new york what the exposure levels would be to that news in like chicago yeah i know that news was just not really penetrating uh or making it in to their like daily conversations unlike obviously if you were asian you were definitely talking about it yeah i definitely think sometimes even educated asian americans they work in like tech or medicine and it's like people there are hyper educated and asians make up like 30 40 of those fields so they're like oh yeah all my co-workers know but it's like yeah of course if an asian facebook employee got beat up in san francisco everybody at facebook is gonna know but what portion of the larger american public works at facebook and by the way this study andrew was like all of america all right so this next slide is about how much asians feel accepted as part of american society let's look at the data guys younger asian americans and asian american women are less likely to feel that they belong and are accepted in u.s society as you can see the 65 and up people they're like yeah i guess i feel american you know i'm not being called a foreigner all the time and then the 18 to 24 year olds this tiktok generation is like nope i'm not part of america yeah i mean we do have to talk some of this and like i said andrew i hate it when people like try to say we're all laughter we're all right andrew some of that is due to like the wokeness right yeah and the oppression olympics where it's like now you know all the struggles you know all the history and you're like hey man like i don't feel accepted like you do and i know that and i'm aware while obviously the people of the older generation they just had different expectations they just didn't want to be called a chank or like greek all the time literally i think the people who are 65 and over it's almost like well i got my paycheck and it's not like it was like half of what my like white coworker got so yeah regardless of whether people like me or don't like me at work like that's acceptance enough to me obviously there's a different set of expectations there's hard power there's soft power there's infrastructure treatment and then there's societal treatment these are like two different wavering metrics so um yeah david i would say the one shocking aspect about this though that kind of surprised me was the gender one where women feel less accepted than asian men now i think there's reasons because a survey is just like how people feel about it right but uh why why do you think maybe that is because usually most people would say hey it feels like asian women get more accepted than asian men in america i mean i do think that to your point andrew earlier about like polling it's not fully scientific i could see men not feeling like it's masculine to admit that they don't feel accepted also i do think they could have way lower expectations i do think and we have uh an asian sister by the way they're more likely to almost compare themselves to what a white woman gets in the same position where it's almost like uh this is kind of messed up to say andrew asian guys we're so far from getting what a given white guy would get in our situation that it's almost like uh that mad tv skit lower expectations all right so number five this next point is about how overseas asians actually feel more likely they belong in america than even american born asian americans now by the way i got to say and i think there is a sampling issue here because like the immigrants that like stay in a china town or a korea town or like in a little saigon they probably like would not participate in a survey to be honest but i do agree that uh on the top and sometimes asians from asia have a better sense of place and are almost more confident transitioning from their game map to the american game map whereas asian americans that are born here there's some sense of entitlement and this big chasm between what uh our neighbors and our cul-de-sac god and what we got and then people feel broken by that so it's a little bit like you know ronnie jimmy o yang these guys that are like these immigrants that are almost like more expecting some barriers so they're more willing to fight through the barriers you know i guess asian americans sometimes when you feel entitled to something you could give up after a barrier or two yeah well you think because we're born here we should get treated just like any other american and the truth is you don't so you might as well if you can adopt that immigrant mindset the grateful immigrant the grateful immigrant mindset and just go for broke because who cares because everybody's gonna see you as a foreigner anyway that is true that is true we do get bucketed with the foreign aborn asians anyway but i mean how do asian americans achieve that if that's not their organic situation it sucks but you gotta like i don't know it's tough but like you gotta somehow adopt it like you gotta look at them like i know like watching ronnie uh chang you know do stand up and just go about his life like i'm like yeah it's kind of inspiring i'm like dude if as asian american guys we could adopt that grateful mindset man if we would be better off because because just chuck the fact that you're born with this american passport out the window man it almost doesn't matter to how you get treated in this country that's what sucks that's what sucks but that's what's true i i know you you know what you're saying is true if you could just matrix download that mentality to fight through the barriers that you that truly shouldn't be there but are there you get further okay okay all right to be fair to be fair the grateful successful immigrants we're talking about ours you know there's a lot of you see a lot of people back in their home country that did not make it here so like we're talking about the top class of hard working grateful uh confident immigrants in america all right this next slide is about how asian americans view themselves more as people of color which makes sense but then white people view asian americans more like white people what i mean i guess this is a scientific study guys they obviously had to weigh the white perspective more because they make up of a higher population in america much higher you know asians only make up like five six percent um obviously they're 69 of seeing asians similar to white people skewed the entire aggregate field to 57 that's how statistics works guys there's like sample populations on this mathematics i'll say this andrew i would imagine if i had to analyze this from white people's perspective they're just seeing themselves as the system or the infrastructure of america and if asians buy into that system or don't really hyper challenge it on any sort of visible level i believe that's what would create this stat if you made me guess uh and i think on the asian side we're looking at it as just like our upbringings different the food we eat is different the way we talk to our parents and the way our parents talk to us is different and our social circles are different so we're almost like making the read of us being poc based off that angle whereas whites are like looking at it maybe possibly more on a machine infrastructure level all right so this next slide is about perceptions and stereotypes uh they were asked to describe all the different groups and these are the most popular terms uh look yeah let's look at the ones for asians kind intelligent hardworking they all fit within the motto minority umbrella um i will say for white americans the funniest one is probably entitled privileged um obviously for black americans oppressed was the number one word honestly that people were thought of and then for latino americans i'm not gonna lie this one's kind of came out of left field andrew mexican just came in at 16 percent that was literally the word that came to these people's minds in this study i mean long story short i really think that it's difficult because these these studies are like national right and a lot of asians we live our lives like along the coastline or in a major metropolitan city like houston or a houston suburb andrew was there anything surprising about uh i guess asians fitting model minority stereotypes i mean uh you know what i actually thought was interesting that the latinos got the hardworking description number one and then asians hardworking is the third most popular so i guess asians are not perceived to be as hardworking i don't i mean you know in comparison yeah but uh otherwise no i mean dude most asians being described as model minority i mean it doesn't say model minority as in like oh they come from like good families it just means that they're very friendly and i think it's because honestly the the crime rate for asians is pretty low so of course like we kind of get the friendly card like we're not dangerous i got a crazy hot take what if instead of kind nice thoughtful friendly amicable andrew you put harmless docile and weak in there as well because they didn't include those adjectives but those could be euphemisms because you don't know what people are thinking in their head it's just like in that direction exactly no i do think harmless is is in there so yeah asians being harmless is absolutely i think it would rank in top three or at least top four all right so this next one is about uh asians in corporate america and as you can look at the data um a lot of people feel like asians are well represented in the corporate workplace but actually when it comes to moving up to the executive and senior officer position asians are like barely there david yeah i mean it shows that 50 percent of people are like yeah you guys got a bunch of ceo's and like c sweet leadership people right and then the reality is asians only have six percent obviously that's one of the biggest complaints in the asian america community even though they're like the best most dedicated corporate workers they don't really move up past like middle or possibly upper middle i mean i'd say this andrew does it feel like when when people dedicate their lives to something you just assume that they're doing well at the upper levels you know how like there were so many african-americans in the mba and nfl for the longest time but there wasn't a lot of coaches or like front office people for until way way more recently um is that something that like people would analyze you think or is that just kind of like people being like yeah there are a lot of asians wearing suits with the briefcases and the computers like why not uh i mean i think some people are thinking about it i know a lot of our asian friends are thinking about it and they're always like hey man like i seen this guy uh move up here when he probably didn't deserve it or or my boss is wondering why he's not getting promoted to that level because he he's probably asian instead so i do think it's um i think it's going to take time but i do think asians are moving up because obviously asians are in the game they're at the company they're at the lower middle and upper middle level but yeah to break through when it comes to that super top top tier it has been tough and and i do think we have to look at ourselves and ask why do we think that is is there anything we can change and also how racist are they being because i think that's part of it too and not only that andrew i will also tell people that although it is probably definitely something structural as well as cultural like holding us back how hard can you really sell that oppression to other groups versus the things that they're going through like you can't be like yeah well you know i work my whole life and dedicated 115 percent of this company and i never got a chance at c-suite it's not like other people are necessarily going to feel your pain right but also and that is 100 true because i think this particular asian issue uh doesn't seem as serious as other issues you know for other people but uh it is systemic then all right so as we are wondering why a lot of asian americans don't move up to the top leadership levels david maybe this next slide kind of explains it americans are the least comfortable with asian americans in leadership positions look as a friend 90 of america would have us david as a doctor or nurse 88 neighbor 88 co-worker 87 member of the family oh they would take us as a member of the family but as president or vice president of the us of course not or boss or supervisor a little bit lower so i guess is this shocking um no i mean i think that people kind of view asians as very new to the western hemisphere and i've noticed that like the western hemisphere they have their own ranking of like different things and once asians got introduced in the mix in like heavy volume in 1970 it kind of got real crazy because some people are like yeah well just don't mess with our western ranking that we had going on i'm just going to put you guys in a separate category but some of the asians they want in on the current ranking some of them are okay being in like an auxiliary silo like two ladders next to each other it's just very different but yes i don't think a lot of people are used to taking orders from asian all right and this next slide kind of explains why there's not as many asians moving up to see sweet level or moving up to those executive roles as much as you might think boom listen 90 percent of us would have us as a friend 88 would have us as a doctor as a co-worker as a member of the family but when it gets to boss you see a slight drop off actually member of the family and and boss is actually at the same level and then obviously a lot of people don't want us as president you gotta think these are surveys too where it's like people are just being trying to be nice like like i wouldn't be surprised if this actual number for vice president is like way lower it's probably like 52 percent um but like uh obviously you know as a doctor a nurse that should be like 98 percent um i'll say this man people view us as like i guess aliens to the western hemisphere and maybe some asians we don't necessarily do the best job of adopting western subcultures to like ease those fears not that we should either because that seems like a weird thing to have to think about everybody's like at ease with us or not or our assimilation to subcultures but uh yeah i mean we're new to the western hemisphere prior to 1970 in terms of very very large number all right this next slide is a asking different political parties if they feel like asians benefit the country and it's kind of interesting boom everybody agrees that asians do contribute and work hard in this country but surprisingly david democrats a little bit lower than the republicans what is going on here oh man you would think it would theoretically be the other way around but these are 2022 stats who knows what it was in 1975 i could see that being flipped but um yeah i would say if you made me look at this i'd say 75 percent of republicans i guess in a weird way saying asians contribute and 71 percent of democrats democrats tend to be more like social issue or like culturally centric whereas i would say republicans theoretically might be more capitalistic that's just what i'm thinking all right so david this next slide is a pretty serious one and it's probably one of the most hurtful and surprising slides there was a big jump from year to year compared to 2021 americans in 2022 are more likely to question the loyalty of asian americans it's a 13 jump that is gigantic bro is that is the the volume kind of hilarious just the amount dude the the the jump between it is crazy so obviously you know you can't you have to look at you know uh covid started in china obviously the whole perception of that the whole tiktok controversy the whole spying thing the whole fact that we're in a cold war and not only that the fact that all asians to me are chinese i mean i think it also creates more internal divisions within asians to be honest because some asians are gonna blame the chinese for like making all asians look bad because they're gonna be like but uh everybody sees us as the same thing so now you're causing everybody to look bad i don't like that um yeah no i mean it's not a good feeling to have to be honest i mean i know we're joking about it but seriously like i don't know i i don't want to say it's directly tied to like asian hate and like punching random people but yeah it's true that if the overall narrative is to distrust asian americans then if you see us on the street and you're a crazy person you you've just envisioned that person as a person you can't trust yeah i mean it's tough it's tough honestly i hope that the next year in 2023 it's not another 13 jump but i might estimate it to be like four to five percent i think it'll get better i think it'll get better but it might get worse before it gets better i don't know it might get like it's just only a little bit worse and then it might get better so i will see you know and i think that it's also too like people seeing the negative economic ramifications uh i know there's a lot of studies out there that anytime the economics is in a downturn of recession people feel worse about everything oh yeah people are looking for somebody to blame a lot you know when times are good you're like i don't know times are good i'm not even thinking about times are bad you're like holy let me start picking who's everybody you know what uh you know i don't know americans are at fault it's china and like i said there there's reasons for it of course we are in a geopolitical thing so anyways moving on all right switching gears this is the big asian representation slide people were asked can they name a famous asian and of course andrew the coming in at 58 was the most famous asian american actor don no ngo is his last name that's he's chinese vietnamese bro i'm not even gonna lie that red bubble was so big i didn't even think it was part of the other data yeah i mean it doesn't really surprise me i think a lot of people are gonna be like what about bts what about shanchi and simu and what about uh michelle yeah she just had the big a24 movie everything everywhere all at once and i'm saying listen guys this study is like for all of america we're talking about nhl nascar mlb show hell tiny's not even on here so it's just like you can't live only in your fishbowl of society america is like very hyper diverse so it's made up of a ton of fish bowls right middle america coastal southern whatever like geek world mainstream world so i think that this is a tough pill to swallow right for aggregate america and we're talking about like milie syris syrus like winneth paltrow you know what i mean like friends tv show america this is probably true yo is it kind of crazy like does anything surprise you that like when they were asked to name a prominent asian some people put just kim jong un as the first one and then actually aquafina made some waves at two percent along with aquafina shout out to her coming in at two percent yeah shout out aquafina and then uh uh what else is kind of funny uh jet lee jeremy lin still on there sandro tiger woz yeah and the reason that i'm not shocked is because uh a couple years ago me and you made this very viral mos on hollywood boulevard in um hollywood california la obviously where all the movies are made and you know mounds chinese theater is and people really didn't know anybody other than jackie chain and bruce lee no i mean i would say and this is when jeremy lin was like still at his peak almost exactly exactly so guys at the end of the day uh listen a lot of people are not tapped into who a prominent asian is and even if they see the face even if they recognize the face they might not know the name hold on are you telling me that a lot of people like in a macro big picture sense in america do not subscribe to next shark and jackfruit all right so this next slide is comparing asian female roles in hollywood and in media comparing it to asian man let's look at the asian female roles and how they're perceived real quick okay interestingly kung fu martial arts experts still came in at number one it's still number one man and then geisha sex work across stripper oh yeah i guess and then number 10 10 is i don't know and then uh janitor made supporting roles doctor submissive mom wife spouse okay um yeah i mean david do any of these shock you uh no they don't i mean these are the roles that are written in hollywood but obviously some people like this is a poll so it's not necessarily scientific to analyzing every piece of mainstream media that came out but i would say like for example and everything all everywhere all at once andre michelle yo was a kung fu martial arts expert she was a janitor made cleaner because she ran the cleaners she was also a mom a tiger mom that had obviously the string relationship with her daughter and she was sexy hot beautiful kind of milk status so you know you're just stacking the way people perceive you so make a hit movie hey stack the layers all right let's move on to how the guys are perceived i guess i don't think that this is going to surprise us either david um similarly americans primarily see asian american men in stereotypical and negative roles all right first 29 percent kung fu masters yes we are oftentimes come yo that's crazy 29 percent oh 17 percent the criminal and gang drug dealers and villains yeah you get the triad yakuza like azn thug thing a little bit things that are different than the women i would say is the executive business people role and uh nerdy nerdy smart intelligent guys yeah i would say that like if we were to actually analyze all the roles given to asian american men in uh mainstream the nerdy nerd guy would like be way way higher than what the survey says and you know what's actually interesting about the kung fu master and the criminal gang i think when asians are depicted as gangs in most movies is usually taking place in asia like triads yakuza right asian gangs there's not as many asian american gangs being depicted in movies right and then also a lot of kung fu artists are oftentimes from asia too so you would say the two largest roles here are probably majority done in a in asia perspective or it could be like lethal weapon four and or where jet lee was a martial arts triad gangster from asia who came over to america yes yes there's that too but what i'm saying is that probably these characters are actually born in asia these are actually not american born asian men most of these roles yeah except the uh doctor impossibly the nerdy nerd or funny witty comedic relief all right our next slide people were asked hey would you like to see more asians in lead roles you asked people in a survey this what do you think they're going to say uh well asian said at 88 percent which is funny that's very asian 88 but who was the 12 percent that said no come on man i think that's like asians not wanting to say it or you know a lot of asian americans they try to like be like oh that stuff's not important you know um but yeah asian americans coming in at 88 white americans at the lowest yo white people do not really want to see well here's the thing white people you know they're kind of the system runners and they're the ones that dominate the industry right so if they say they don't want to see asians guess what there's not going to be a lot of asians yeah and i'll see what you're saying the power weight ratio kind of like skews the overall impact yeah because it is true and it sucks in america that if white people don't want to see your face then it does it's going to impact your career i don't want to see your face so uh but yeah mostly everybody said that they were like yeah i'll be down i'll go see an asian see what they got but shout out to 18 and 24 year olds you know being more open-minded because that's obviously where society is headed yeah well all right guys well i guess that would kind of explain the surge of asian material there are more asian leads now than ever obviously there's also more content now than ever so yeah but there are more asian leads particularly for content that caters to a younger demographic precisely all right last but not least different americans were asked hey how did you learn about asians or how do you see asians or how are you exposed to asians and boom this is the results okay asians learn about asians through family social media friends news and tv and news way down there yeah possibly because the news doesn't really cover asians much unless it's a geopolitical macro sense um number two and black americans they learned from news and then tv music and then white people same news and tv music and then latinos came through number one as social media hey latinos are on social media learning about asians all right all right i don't really know what that means i can't even like infer anything but anyways basically david uh it makes sense right what i notice about asian americans is still a lot of them really know what their family knows like a lot of asian americans like knowledge base is heavily heavily impacted by who is their mother their father their brothers their sisters their uncles and their aunties and uh that's good and that's bad right i would say a lot of asians are generally and by the way guys this is not all kind of disengaged from the larger american discourse i mean like that's kind of a big statement but it is facts yeah i mean i think after a certain age depending on your career uh your interest in learning more about asian stuff kind of goes down because you're just trying to make it in america you're just trying to adapt you want to move up the corporate ladder or move up in your job whatever that job is and it might not involve learning more about asian history are you talking about and managing the micro fish bowls of life yeah because you're in america and learning more about asians in america for 95 percent of asians probably doesn't directly help them i think it can help their being it can help them understand themselves and understand their identity but yes in as far as making more money maybe maybe not as much right um and as far as black americans and white americans really getting everything from news tv's and music doesn't really surprise me they've been in america obviously the longest and then latinos hey apparently andrew anything the latinos know about asians is from tiktok i'm just kidding guys i'm just all right you guys at the end of the study our last slide number 43 it shows that many people recommended that education is the preferred solution to fight anti asian american racism i mean i think that's pretty easy answer to give in a survey that sounds like super yeah like education it'll just be like the thing that all bonds us i mean i don't you know disagree with that but definitely i think that's just like one of the fingers on a hand um because there's other fingers that are important too and andrew what is your major recommendation i would say asians just gotta like learn more about being asian and learn more about western culture instead of just letting it organically happen i'd like to see a more concerted effort to learn about both cultures eastern and western mm-hmm yeah i think a lot of asian americans uh need to kind of up their confidence i know that everybody hears this phrase but what i mean by confidence is i mean by like courage or boldness in america because america no no no because don't don't just say confidence andrew because a lot of asians are confident in their ability to like do their job properly i'm talking about outward boldness you know something where it allows you to feel like you can speak up and it makes you feel like you want to work out or learn a martial art or or go out and do things because just a lot of people do not know what asians are in america still you know and this whole report kind of tells you like they they don't know that much they can't name any prominent asians they still view asians as these in these roles so i'm just saying like uh whatever it takes to be more bold and courageous i think those are the things that we need to work on as asians and i'll add to that andrew one caveat like i don't think that asians need to feel bad that people don't perceive us as bold and courageous we just have to understand that we went from like the you know east game map that like runs by its own metrics and maybe boldness or courageousness too much of it can like look bad but in america it's almost like a one-to-one just the more bold and courageous you are just the more you get yes you know what i mean like exactly a different system like over there i could see it being pros and cons and then the pros and cons are almost equal in the east but in the west there's way more pros than cons to being bold and courageous in an outward sense america is that type of country that if you are bold courageous and have something to contribute which asians do have a lot to contribute you will find a significant increase of success and respect will you be at the top i don't know i can't say so but you're gonna see an improvement jump and we're not always gonna be viewed in these roles uh we're not always gonna be like it's not always gonna be that nobody knows anything about us things will get better but i do think as an individual that's what we can work on well andrew what would you say to somebody who's like more living in an asian i guess all asian fishball where they're like dude that's why i like choose to not care about anything that's in this study because like even though this is true that's why i just like live my life in the boba world well i'll tell you this man that person definitely did not make it this far in that in this video so i really don't have anything to address to that man because they're not watching but uh no no no that is a that that is a possible option that you can choose though right of course yeah of course you can bow out of the game i don't know i mean i guess if your life is good but if you're trying to help each other and trying to be a little drop in the bucket of this big wave that can help us all and help the world too like you know then you got to think about it but yeah maybe just live your life maybe you're a cool person and and you like the way your life is i don't know i can't say much hey like we said guys we're just here to break it down like an umpire called the balls in the strikes and then you guys make your own decisions let us know what in the comment section below one did you read the status you know report for 2022 about asian americans do you agree or disagree with our takeaways what are your takeaways until next time we the hop hop boys we out peace


14 In a hilarious hall there are twenty-eight tables and twenty-eight women and a crowd of smoking men. Valent noise was made on a stage at the end of the hall by an orchestra composed of men who looked as if they had just happened in. Sword-waiters ran to and fro, swooping down like hawks on the unwary, in the throng. Cladding along the owls with trays covered with glasses, stumbling over women's skirt, and charging two prizes for everything but beer, all with a swiftness that blurred the view of the coconut palms and dusty monstrosities painted upon the walls of the room. A bouncer, with an immense load of business upon his hands, plunged about in the crowd, dragging bashful strangers to prominent chairs, ordering waiters here and there, and quarreling furiously with men who wanted to sing with the orchestra. The usual smoke cloud was present, but so dense that heads and arms seemed entangled in it. The rumble of conversation was replaced by a roar. Plenty of oath heaved through the air. The room rang with the shrill voices of women bubbling over with drink or laughter. The chief element in the music of the orchestra was speed. The musicians played in intent fury. A woman was singing and smelling upon the stage, but no one took notice of her. The rate at which the piano, cornet, and violins were going seemed to impart wildness to the half-drunken crowd. Big glasses were empty at a gulp, and conversation became a rapid chatter. The smoke ebbed and swirled like shadowy river harrying towards some unseen falls. Pete and Maggie entered the hall and took chairs at a table near the door. The woman who was seated there made an attempt to occupy Pete's attention, and, failing, went away. Three weeks had passed since the girl had left home. The air of spangled-like dependence had been magnified and showed a direct effect in the particular off-handedness and ease of Pete's ways toward her. She followed Pete's eyes with hers, anticipating with smiles gracious looks from him. A woman of brilliance and audacity, accompanied by a mere boy, came into the place and took seats near them. At once, Peter sprang to his feet, his face beaming with glad surprise. By God, there's Nella, he cried. He went over to the table and held out an eager hand to the woman. Why, hello, Peter, my boy, and how are you? She said, giving him her fingers. Maggie took instant note of the woman.  Her linen collared and cuffs were spotless. Tan gloves were stretched over her well-shaped hands, a hat of prevailing fashion perched jauntedly upon her dark hair. She wore no jewelry and was painted with no apparent paint. She looked clear-eyed through the stairs of the men. And call your lady friend over, she said causally to Pete. At his beckoning, Maggie came and sat between Pete and the mere boy. I thought you were going away for good, began Peter once. When did you get back? How about them buffalo business turned out? The woman shrugged her shoulders. Well, he didn't have as many stamps as he tried to make out.  That's all. Well, I'm glad to see he's back in the city, said Pete with awkward gallantry. He and the woman entered into a long conversation, exchanging reminisces of days together. Maggie sat still, unable to formulate an intelligent sentence upon the conversation and painfully aware of it. She saw Pete's eyes sparkle as he gazed upon the handsome stranger. He listened smilingly to all she said. The woman was familiar with all his affairs, asked him about mutual friends, and knew the amount of the salary. She paid no attention to Maggie, looking toward her once or twice and apparently seeing the wall beyond. The mere boy was sulky. In the beginning he had welcomed with acclamations the additions. Let's all have a drink. What do you take, Nell? And you, miss, what's your name? Have a drink, mister. You know what I mean? He had shown a sprightly desire to do the talking for the company and tell all about his family. In a loud voice he declined on various topics. He assumed a patronizing air toward Pete. As Maggie was silent, he paid no attention to her. He made a great show of lavishing wealth upon the woman of brilliance and audacity. Do keep still, Freddie. You give her like an ape, dear, said the woman to him. She turned away and devoted her attention to Pete. Well, have many a good time together again, eh? Sure, Mike, said Pete, enthusiastic at once. Say, whispered she, leaning forward. Let's go over to Billy's and have a hell of a time. Well, it's this way, see, said Pete. I got this lady from him. Oh, to help with her, argued the woman. Pete appeared disturbed. All right, she said, nodding her head at him. All right for you. This is the next time you ask me to go anywhere as with you. Pete squirmed. Say, he said beseechingly. Come while Mia meant, and I'll tell you why. The woman waved her hand. Oh, that's all right. You didn't explain, you know. You wouldn't come merely because you wouldn't come. That's all there is of it. To Pete's visible distress, she turned to the Mia boy, bringing him speedily from a terrific rage. He had been debating whether it would be the part of a man to pick a quarrel with Pete, or would he be justified in striking him savagely with his beer glass without warning. But he recovered himself when the woman turned to renew her smileings. He beamed upon her with an expression that was somewhat tipsy and inexpressibly tender. Say, check that Bowery J. requested he in a loud whisper. Freddie, you are so drawn, she replied. Pete reached forward and touched the woman on the arm. Come out a minute while I tell you why I can't go with you. You do me dirt now. I never taught you do me dirt now. Come on, will you? He spoke in tones and injury. Why? I don't see why I should be interested in your explanations. Said the woman with a coldness that seemed to reduce Pete to a pulp. His eyes pleaded with her. Come out a minute while I tell you. The woman nodded slightly and magging in the Mia boy. Excuse me.  His boy's countenance flushed and he spoke in a whine to the woman. Oh, I say, Nellie, this isn't a square deer, you know. You aren't going to leave me and go off with that duffer, are you? I should think. Why, you dear boy, of course I'm not, cried the woman affectionately. She bend it over and whispered in his ear. He smiled again and settled in his chair as if resolved to wait patiently. As the woman walked down between the rows of tables, Pete was at her shoulder talking earnestly, apparently in explanation. The woman waved her hands with study heirs of indifference. The door swung behind them, leaving Maggie and the Mia boy seated at the table. Maggie was dazed. She could dimly perceive that something stupendous had happened. She wondered why Pete saw fit to remistrate with the woman, pleading for forgiveness with his eyes. She thought she noted an air of submission about her linoin Pete. She was astounded. The Mia boy occupied himself with cocktails and a cigar. He was tranquilly silent for half an hour. Then he bestirred himself and spoke. Well, he said, Zion, I knew this was the way it would be. There was another stillness. The Mia boy seemed to be musing. She was pulling me leg. That's the whole amount of it, he said suddenly. It's a blooming shame the way that girl does.  I call it rocky treatment for a fella like me.  Maggie made no reply. She was watching the doors. It's a mean piece of business, complaining to me a boy. He explained to her how amazing it was that anybody should treat him in such a manner. But I'll get square with her. You bet.  I'll tell her planning that it was blooming mean business. And she won't come it over me with any of her now freddy dears. She thinks my name was freddy, you know, but of course it ain't. I always tell these people some name like that because if they got into your right name, they might use it sometime. Understand? Oh, they don't fool me much. Maggie was paying no attention. Being a ten upon the doors, the mere boy relapsed into a period of bloom, doing which he exterminated a number of cocktails with a determined air as if reliant defiantly to fate. He occasionally broke forth into synthesis composed of infectives joined together in a long string. The girl was still staring at the doors.  He spurred himself into being agreeable and insist upon her having a shawly roost and a glass of beer. There's gone, he remarked. They's gone. He looked at her through the smoke. Well, she ain't little girl. We might as well make best of it. We ain't such bad looking girl, you know? Not that bad. Can't come up to Nell though. No, can't do it. Well, I should say not. Nell fine looking girl. F-I-N-E fine. You look down bad alongside her but by yourself ain't so bad. Have you do it anyhow? Nell gone. Only you left. Not bad though. Maggie stood up. I'm going home, she said. Then the mere boy started. Eh, what? Home. He cried, struck with amazement. I beg pardon. Did he say home? I am going home, she repeated.  The man of the mere boy himself stupefied. In a semi-comatose state, he conducted her on board an uptown car. Ostinously paid her fare, leered kindly at her through the rear window, and fell off the steps. End of Chapter 14, Recording by Daisy 55. Chapter 15 of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. This is a Liberox recording. All Liberox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Liberox.org. Recording by Daisy 55. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane. Chapter 15. A full-on woman went along a lighted avenue.  An endless crowd dotted at the elevator station stairs, and the horse cars were throng with owners of bundles. The pace of the full-on woman was slow. She was apparently searching for someone. She lauded near the doors of saloons, and watched men emerge from them. She scanned futively the faces in the Russian stream of pedestrians. Harry and men bent on catching some boat or train, jostled their elbows, falling to notice her. Their thoughts fixed on distant dinners. The full-on woman had a peculiar face. Her smile was no smile. But when in repose, her features had a shadowy look that was like a sardonic grin, as if someone had sketched with a crude four fingers indebtable lines about her mouth. Jimmy came strolling up the avenue. The woman encountered him with an aggrieved air. Oh, Jimmy, I've been looking all over for you. She began. Jimmy made an impatient gesture and quickened his pace. Oh, don't bother me, good God, he said, with a savanness of a man whose life has pestered. The woman followed him along the sidewalk and somewhat the man of a supple.  Say, for God's sake, had it, don't follow me from one end of the city till the other. Let her wish it. Give me a minute rest, can't she? He makes me tired. All's a-tagging me. See, ain't ye's got no sin? Do ye's want people to get on to me? Go chase yourself for God's sakes. The woman stepped closer and laid her fingers on his arm.  He dotted into the front door of a convenience saloon, and a moment later came out into the shadows that surrounded the side door. On the brilliantly lighted avenue, he perceived the forlorn woman dodging about him like a scout. Jimmy laughed with an air relief and went away. When he arrived home, he found his mother clamoring. Maggie had returned. She stood shivering beneath the torrent of her mother's wrath. Well, I'm damned, said Jimmy in greeting. His mother tottering about the room, pointing an equivalent forefinger. Look at here, Jimmy, look at here. There's your sister, boy. There's your sister. Look at her, look at her. She screamed and scoffed and laughed at her. The girl stood in the middle of the room. She asked about as if unable to find a place on the floor to put her feet. Below the mother. There she stands. Ain't she pretty? Look at her. Ain't she sweet? The beast. Look at her. Look at her. She lurched forward and put her red and seamed hands upon his daughter's face. She bent down and peered keenly up into the eyes of the girl. Oh, she just deceiving. Ain't she ever was, ain't she? She's a mother's party. Darling little, ain't she? Look at her, Jimmy. Come here for God's sake and look at her. The loud and tremendous sneering of the mother brought the deansons of the Rum Alley Tenement to their doors. Women came in at hallways. Children scurry to and fro. What's up? The Johnson's party on the other tear? Na, young Max, come home.  Through the open doors, curious eyes stared in at Maggie. Children ventured into the room and uggled her as if they formed the front row at a theater. Woman without bended toward each other and whispered, nodding their heads with airs of profound philosophy. A baby overcome of curiosity concerning this object at which all were looking, slide her forward and touched her dress cautiously as if investigating a red hot stove. Its mother's voice rang out like a warning triumph. She rushed forward and grabbed her child, casting a terrible look of indignation at the girl.  Her voice rang through the building. There she stands, she cried, wheeling suddenly and pointing with dramatic finger. There she stands. Look at her. Ain't she a ditty? And she was so good as to come home to her mother. She was. Ain't she a beauty? Ain't she a ditty? For God's sakes, the jeering cries ended in another bust of sheer laughter. The girl seems to awaken. Jimmy, he drew hastily back from her.  He said. His lips curling and scorn, radiant virtue sat upon his brow and his repelling hands expressed horror of contamination. Maggie turned and went. The crowd at the door fell back precipitately.  Another woman sprang forward and picked it up with a shiverous air as if rescuing a human being from an ongoing express train. As the girl passed down through the hall, she went before open doors, framing more eyes, strangely microscopic and sending broad beams of exquisite light into the darkness of her path. On the second floor, she met the large old woman who possessed the music box. So she cried. Is she back again? Is she? And it kicks you out.  They ain't got no more standing. From above came an e-signing babble of tongues over all of which rang the mother's decisive laughter. End of Chapter 15. Recording by Daisy 55 Chapter 16 of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Neil Donnelly. Maggie, A Girl of the Streets by Stephen Crane Chapter 16 Pete did not consider that he had ruined Maggie. If he had thought that her soul could never smile again, he would have believed the mother and brother who were a pyrotechnic over the affair to be responsible for it. Besides, in his world, souls did not insist upon being able to smile.  He felt a trifle entangled. It distressed him. Revelations and scenes might bring upon him the wrath of the owner of the saloon who insisted upon respectability of an advanced type.  Demanded he of himself disgusted with the attitude of the family. He saw no necessity for anyone's losing their equilibrium merely because their sister or their daughter had stayed away from home. Searching about in his mind for possible reasons for their conduct, he came upon the conclusion that Maggie's motives were correct, but that the two others wished to snare him. He felt pursued. The woman of brilliance and audacity whom he had met in the hilarious hall showed a disposition to ridicule him. A little pale thing with no spirit, she said. Did you note the expression of her eyes? There was something in them about pumpkin pie and virtue. That is the peculiar way the left corner of her mouth has of twitching, isn't it? Dear, dear, my cloud compelling Pete, what are you coming to? Pete asserted at once that he never was very much interested in the girl. The woman interrupted him laughing. Oh, it's not of the slightest consequence to me, my dear young man. You needn't draw maps for my benefit. Why should I be concerned about it? But Pete continued with his explanations. If he was laughed at for his tastes in women, he felt obliged to say that they were only temporary or indifferent ones. The morning after Maggie had departed from home, Pete stood behind the bar. He was immaculate in a white jacket and apron, and his hair was plastered over his bra with infinite correctness. No customers were in the place. Pete was twisting his napkin to fist slowly in a beer glass, softly whistling to himself, and occasionally holding the object of his attention between his eyes and a few weak beams of sunlight that had found their way over the thick screens and into the shaded room. With lingering thoughts of the woman of brilliance and audacity, the bartender raised his head and stared through the varying cracks between the swaying bamboo doors. Suddenly the whistling pucker faded from his lips. He saw Maggie walking slowly past. He gave a great start, fearing for the previously mentioned eminent respectability of the place. He threw a swift, nervous glance about him, all at once feeling guilty. No one was in the room. He went hastily over to the side door, opening it and looking out. He perceived Maggie standing as if undecided on the corner.  As she turned her face toward him, Pete beckoned to her hurriedly, intent upon returning with speed to a position behind the bar and to the atmosphere of respectability upon which the proprietor insisted. Maggie came to him, the anxious look disappearing from her face and a smile erything her lips. Oh, Pete, she began brightly. The bartender made a violent gesture of impatience. Oh, my God, he cried vehemently.  Do you want to get me into trouble? He demanded with an air of injury. Astonishment swept over the girl's features. Why, Pete, you just told me. Pete glanced, profound irritation. His countenance reddened with the anger of a man whose respectability is being threatened. Say, yes, makes me tired, see.  You get me into trouble with the old man and they'll be held to pay.   And now I'm done, see, I'm done. The girl's eyes stared into his face.  The girl seemed to have a struggle with herself. She was apparently bewildered and could not find speech. Finally, she asked in a low voice, but where can I go? The question exasperated Pete beyond the powers of endurance. It was a direct attempt to give him some responsibility in a manner that did not concern him. In his indignation he volunteered information. Oh, go to hell, cried he. He slammed the door furiously and returned with an air of relief to his respectability. Maggie went away. She wandered aimlessly for several blocks. She stopped once and asked aloud a question of herself. Who? A man who was passing near her shoulder humorously took the questioning word as intended for him. Her what? Who? Nobody. I didn't say anything, he laughingly said and continued his way. Soon the girl discovered that if she walked with such apparent aimlessness some man looked at her with calculating eyes. She quickened her step, frightened. As a protection she adopted a demeanor of intentness as if going somewhere. After a time she left rattling avenues and passed between rows of houses with sternness and stolidity stamped upon their features.  Suddenly she came upon a stout gentleman in a silk hat and a chased black coat whose decorous row of buttons reached from his chin to his knees. The girl had heard of the grace of God and she decided to approach this man. His beaming chubby face was a picture of benevolence and kind-heartedness. His eyes shone goodwill. But as the girl timidly accosted him he gave a convulsive movement and saved his respectability by a vigorous sidestep. He did not risk it to save a soul. For how is he to know that there was a soul before him that needed saving? Upon a wet evening, several months after the last chapter, two interminable rows of cars pulled by slipping horses jangled along a prominent side street. A dozen cabs with coat-and-trouted drivers clattered to and fro. Electric lights, worrying softly, shed a blurred radiance. A flower dealer, his feet tapping impatiently, his nose and his wears glistening with raindrops stood behind an array of roses and chrysanthemums. Two or three theaters emptied a crowd upon the storm-swept pavements. Men pulled their hats over their eyebrows and raised their collars to their ears. Women shrugged impatient shoulders in their warm cloaks and stopped to arrange their skirts for a walk through the storm. People, having been comparatively silent for two hours, burst into a roar of conversation, their hearts still kindling from the glowings of the stage. The pavements became tossing seas of umbrellas. Men stepped forth to hail cabs or cars, raising their fingers in varied forms of polite requests or imperative demand. An endless procession went toward elevated stations. An atmosphere of pleasure and prosperity seemed to hang over the throng, born perhaps of good clothes and of having just emerged from a place of forgetfulness. In the mingled light and gloom of an adjacent park, a handful of wet wanderers and attitudes of chronic dejection was scattered among the benches. A girl of the painted cohorts of the city went along the street. She threw changing glances at men who passed her, giving smiling invitations to men of rural or untaught pattern and usually seeming sedately unconscious of the men with a metropolitan seal upon their faces. Crossing glittering avenues, she went into the throng emerging from the places of forgetfulness. She hurried forward through the crowd as if intent upon reaching a distant home, bending forward in her handsome cloak, daintily lifting her skirts and picking for her well-eshad feet the drier spots upon the pavements. The restless doors of saloons, clashing to and fro, disclosed animated rows of men before bars and hurrying barkeepers. A concert hall gave to the street faint sounds of swift machine-like music as if a group of phantom musicians were hastening. A tall young man, smoking a cigarette with a sublime air, strolled near the girl. He had on evening dress a moustache, a chrysanthemum, and a look of ennui, all of which he kept carefully under his eye. Seeing the girl walk on as if such a young man as he was not in existence, he looked back transfixed with interest. He stared glassily for a moment, but gave a slight convulsive start when he discerned that she was neither new, Parisian nor theatrical. He wheeled about hastily and turned his stare into the air like a sailor with a searchlight. A stout gentleman with pompous and philanthropic whiskers went stolidly by the broad of his back sneering at the girl. A belated man in business clothes and in haste to catch a car bounced against her shoulder. Either, Mary, I beg your pardon. Brace up, old girl. He grasped her arm to steady her, and then was away running down the middle of the street. The girl walked on out of the realm of restaurants and saloons. She passed more glittering avenues and went into darker blocks than those who were the crowd traveled. A young man in light overcoat and derby hat received a glance shot keenly from the eyes of the girl. He stopped and looked at her, thrusting his hands in his pockets and making a mocking smile curl his lips. Come now, old lady, he said. You don't mean to tell me that you size me up for a farmer. A laboring man marched along with bundles under his arms. To her remarks, he replied, It's a fine evening, ain't it?   Not this Eve, some other Eve. A drunken man, reeling in her pathway, began to roar at her. I ain't got no money. Damn bad luck. Ain't got no more money. The girl went into gloomy districts near the river, where the tall factories shut in the street, and only occasional broad beams of light fell across the pavements from saloons. In front of one of these places, from whence came the sound of a violin vigorously scraped, the patter of feet on boards and the ring of loud laughter there stood a man with blotched features. Ah, there, said the girl. I've got a date, said the man. Further on in the darkness, she met a ragged being with shifting bloodshot eyes and grimy hands.  Tink I'm a millionaire? She went into the blackness of the final block. The shutters of the tall buildings were closed like grim lips. These structures seemed to have eyes that looked over her beyond her at other things. Far off the lights of the avenues glittered as if from an impossible distance, streetcar bells jingled with a sound of merriment. When almost to the river, the girl saw a great figure.  His gray hair straggled down over his forehead.  He laughed, his brown, disordered teeth gleaming under a gray, grizzled mustache from which beard drops dripped. His whole body gently quivered and shook like that of a dead jellyfish. Chuckling and leering, he followed the girl of the crimson legions. At their feet the river appeared a deathly black hue. Some hidden factory sent up a yellow glare that lit for a moment the waters lapping oilily against timbers. The varied sounds of life, made joyous by distance and seeming unapproachableness, came faintly and died away to a silence. CHAPTER 18 A partitioned-off section of a saloon sat a man with a half dozen women, gleefully laughing, hovering about him. The man had arrived at that stage of drunkenness where affection is felt for the universe. I'm good feller, girls, you said convincingly.  Anybody treats me right? I always treat them right, see? The women nodded their heads approvingly. To be sure, they cried out in a hearty chorus, You're the kind of a man we like, Pete, you're out of sight. Whatcha gonna buy this time, dear? Anything is once, damn it, said the man in an abandonment of goodwill, his countenance shown with the true spirit of benevolence. He was in the proper mode of missionaries. He would have fraternized with obscure hotentots, and above all he was overwhelmed in tenderness for his friends, who were all illustrious. Anything is once, damn it, repeated he, waving his hands with beneficent recklessness. I'm good feller, girls, and if anybody treats me right, I hear, called he, through an open door to a waiter. Bring, girls, drinks, damn it. What'll you have, girls? Anything is once, damn it. The waiter glanced in with the disgusted look of the man who serves in toxicance for the man who takes too much of them. He nodded his head shortly at the order from each individual and went, damn it, said the man.  I like you, girls, damned if I don't.  He spoke at length and with feeling concerning the excellencies of his assembled friends.  That's right. That's what to do.  His nose had a treat of feller, and I and I stays by his till I spend a lot of cent. That's right. I'm good feller, and I nose when anybody treats me right. Between the times of the arrival and departure of the waiter, the man discourse to the women on the tender regard he felt for all living things. He laid stress upon the purity of his motives and all dealings with men in the world, and spoke of the fervor of his friendship for those who were amiable. Tears welled slowly from his eyes. His voice quavered when he spoke to them. The once when the waiter was about to depart with an empty tray, the man drew a coin from his pocket and held it forth. Here, said he, quite magnificently, here's quarter. The waiter kept his hands on his tray. I don't want your money, he said. The other put forth the coin with cheerful insistence. Here, damn it, he cried, take it.  Come, come now, said the waiter, with the sullen air of a man who was forced into giving advice.  As the latter passed out of the door, the man turned pathetically to the women.  Never you mind, Pete, dear, said a woman of brilliance and audacity, laying her hand with great affection upon his arm. Never you mind, old boy, we'll stay by you, dear. That's right, cried the man, his face lighting up at the soothing tones of the woman's voice. That's right, I'm damn good feller, and when anyone treats me right, I treat them right. Sure, cried the woman, and we're not going back on you, old man. The man turned appealing eyes to the woman of brilliance and audacity. He felt that if he could be convicted of a contemptible action, he would die.  I always been good feller, we is, ain't I, now? Sure you have, Pete, assented the woman. She delivered an aeration, and she said, assented the woman. She delivered an aeration to her companions. Yes, sir, that's a fact. Pete's a square fella, he is. He never goes back on her friend. He's the right kind, and we stay by him, don't we, girls? Sure, they exclaimed. Looking lovingly at him, they raised their glasses and drank his health. Girls, said the man, beseechingly. I always treat you right, didn't I? I'm good feller, ain't I, girls? Sure, again, they chorused. Well, said he, finally. Let's have another drink, then. That's right, hailed a woman. That's right, you're no bloomin' Jay, you spend your money like a man, that's right. Man pounded the table with his quivering fists. Yes, sir, he cried with deep earnestness, as if someone disputed him. I'm damn good feller, and when anyone treats me right, I always treat... Let's have another drink. He began to beat the wood with his glass. Shey, howled he, growling, suddenly impatient, as the waiter did not then come. The man swilled with wrath. Shey, howled he again. The waiter appeared at the door. Brings drinks, said the man. The waiter disappeared with the orders. Said feller, damn fool, cried the man. Here and sell me, I'm gentleman. Here and stand me and sell.  No, no, cried the woman, crowding about and trying to subdue him. He's all right. He didn't mean anything, let it go. He's a good feller. Danny and sell me, asked the man, earnestly. No, said they. Of course he didn't. He's all right. Sure he didn't sell me? Demanded the man with deep anxiety in his voice. No, no, we know him. He's a good feller. He didn't mean anything. Well, John, said the man, resolutely. I'm a girl, apologize. When the waiter came, the man struggled to the middle of the floor.  I apologize. All right, said the waiter. The man sat down. He felt a sleepy but strong desire to straighten things out and have a perfect understanding with everybody. Now I always treat you squared, and I... You like me don't you, now? I'm a good feller. Sure, said the woman of brilliance and audacity.  Sure, she repeated carelessly. Overwhelmed by a spasm of drunken adoration, he drew two or three bills from his pocket. And with the trembling fingers of an offering priest, laid them on the table before the woman. His nose damages can have all I got, because I'm stuck on you, don't you, now? Damn it, I...    Shortly he went to sleep, with his swollen face fallen forward on his chest. The woman drank and laughed, not heeding the slumbering man in the corner. Finally he lurched forward and fell groaning to the floor. The women screamed in disgust and drew back their skirts. Come on, cried one, staring up angrily. Let's get out of here. The woman of brilliance and audacity stayed behind, taking up the bills and stuffing them into a deep, irregularly shaped pocket. A guttural snore from the recumbent man caused her to turn and look down at him. She laughed.  The smoke from the lamps settled heavily down in a little compartment, obscuring the way out. The smell of oil stifling in its intensity pervaded the air. The wine from an overturned glass dripped softly down upon the blotches on the man's neck. End of Chapter 18 Chapter 19 Of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Philippa.  A soiled, unshaven man pushed open the door and entered. Well, said he, Maggie's dead.  Maggie's dead, repeated the man.  She continued her meal. When she finished her coffee, she began to weep. I can remember when her two feet was no bigger than your thumb, and she wear'd wusted boots, won't she? Well, what a dat, said the man. I can remember when she wear'd wusted boots, she cried. The neighbours began to gather in the hall, staring in at the weeping woman, as if watching the contortions of a dying dog. A dozen women entered and lamented with her. Under their busy hands, the rooms took on that appalling appearance of neatness and order with which death is greeted. Suddenly the door opened, and a woman in a black gown rushed in without stretched arms. Ah, poor Mary! she cried, and tenderly embraced the moaning one. Ah, what terrible affliction is this? continued she. Her vocabulary was derived from mission churches. My poor Mary, how I feel for years! Ah, what a terrible affliction is a disobedient child! Her good motherly face was wet with tears. She trembled in eagerness to express her sympathy. The mourner sat with bowed head, rocking her body heavily to and fro, and crying out in a high, strained voice that sounded like a dirge on some forlorn pipe. I can remember when she wear'd wusted boots, and her two feet was no bigger than your thumb, and she wear'd wusted boots, Miss Smith. She cried, raising her streaming eyes. Ah, me poor Mary! sobbed the woman in black. With low, coddling cries, she sank on her knees by the mourner's chair and put her arms about her. The other women began to groan in different keys. Your poor, misguided child is gone now, Mary, and let us hope it's for the best.  She's gone where her terrible sins will be judged. The woman in black raised her face, and paused. The inevitable sunlight came streaming in at the windows, and shed a ghastly cheerfulness upon the faded hues of the room. Two or three of the spectators were sniffling, and one was loudly weeping. The mourner arose and staggered into the other room. In a moment she emerged, with a pair of faded baby-shoes held in the hollow of her hand. I can remember when she used to wear'd them, cried she. The women burst anew into cries as if they'd all been stabbed. The mourner turned to the soiled and unshaven man.    The man swore sullenly. He went over to a corner, and slowly began to put on his coat. He took his hat, and went out with a dragging, reluctant step. The woman in black came forward, and again besought the mourner. You'll forgive her, Mary. You'll forgive your bad, bad child. Her life was a curse, and her days were black, and you'll forgive your bad girl. She's gone where her sins will be judged. She's gone where her sins will be judged, cried the other women, like a choir at a funeral. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, said the woman in black, raising her eyes to the sunbeams. The Lord gives, and the Lord takes away, responded the others. You'll forgive her, Mary, pleaded the woman in black. The mourner essayed to speak, but her voice gave way. She shook her great shoulders frantically in an agony of grief. Hot tears seemed to scald her quivering face. Finally her voice came, and arose like a scream of pain. Oh yes, I'll forgive her. I'll forgive her. End of Maggie, A Girl of the Streets, by Stephen Crane


Russia presented its newest helicopter. For the first time, Russia presented the modern MI-171A3 military transport helicopter, intended for long flights over the sea at the IDEX 2023 Arms exhibition held in Abu Dhabi. This was reported by Rostec's company. It was reported that this is a helicopter modification that meets the IOGP standards of the International Association of Oil and Gas Producers, which is responsible for the safety of flights in the energy sector. It should be noted that at the exhibition, which will last until February the 24th, Rostec's company presented about 150 modern high-precision firearms, armoured vehicles, airplanes and helicopters. Designed for offshore transport missions, the MI-171A3 includes a new airframe which integrates a crash-resistant fuel system into the cargo bay floor. It also features modernised avionics, which have been upgraded for offshore operations and flights in the Arctic. MI-171A3 has unique transport capabilities in its class. The maximum takeoff weight is 13,000 kilograms. It can carry up to 24 people and the maximum flight range is 1,000 kilometers. The helicopter is intended for all weather operations in a wide range of climatic conditions, including maritime, tropical and cold climate, with ambient temperatures ranging between 50 Celsius to plus 50 Celsius. The avionics of the MI-171A3 provides automated and manual control of the helicopter at all stages of flight from takeoff to landing and automatic piloting for both air routes and non-regulatory airspace regardless of the degree of ground-based radio navigation.


Hello and welcome to the session. Let us discuss the following question. Question says, find the vector equation of the line passing through 1, 2, 3 and perpendicular to the plane r vector dot i plus 2j minus 5k plus 9 is equal to 0. First of all let us understand that vector equation of the line that passes through a given point whose position vector is a vector and parallel to a given vector b is r vector is equal to a vector plus lambda multiplied by p vector. This is the key idea to solve the given question. Let us now start with the solution. Now we are given that line passes through point 1, 2, 3 and also line is perpendicular to the plane r vector dot i plus 2j minus 5k plus 9 is equal to 0. Now let us assume that a vector represents the position vector of this point. So we can write a vector is equal to i plus 2j plus 3k. Clearly we can see these are the components of vector a and vector a represents the position vector of this point. Now clearly we can see given equation of the plane is in the form r vector dot n vector is equal to d here n vector is normal to the plane. Now comparing these two equations we get n vector is equal to i plus 2j minus 5k Now we know this normal vector is perpendicular to the plane and plane is perpendicular to the line. This implies this normal vector is parallel to the line. So we can write normal vector is perpendicular to the plane and plane is perpendicular to the line. Now this implies normal vector i plus 2j minus 5k is parallel to the line. Now we get direction ratios of the line are same as the direction ratios of this normal vector. Now from key idea we know vector equation of a line is r vector is equal to a vector plus lambda multiplied by b vector where a vector is the position vector of any point on the line and b vector is parallel to the line. Now here this is the position vector of the point on the line and this is the vector parallel to the line.  Here these are the components of vector a. We know vector a is the position vector of a point on the line and these are the components of vector parallel to the line. So using this equation we get the required equation of the line. So this is our required answer. This completes the session. Hope you understood the solution. Take care and have a nice day.


Ladies and gentlemen welcome, I'm very pleased to join with Martin Erickson Who is a swede who actually lives and resides in Malta or I should I say on Malta? Martin is one of the people organizing an upcoming conference on the island of Malta called Korax Which is going to feature None other than the great Hans Hermann Hoppe So Martin welcome and and talk a little bit about this upcoming conference, which is ladies and gentlemen July 28 through 30th I will also be speaking but a bit more importantly as I mentioned Hans Hoppe will be speaking So what's what's the what are the origins of the conference and why are you holding it? Yeah, so the the conference is the second annual Korax conference and Korax is a libertarian media network Which originated in Sweden under a different brand name. It's called the bubla in Sweden It's a fairly large and successful libertarian project in Sweden and Korax is the kind of embryonic English language version that we do for an international audience So the conference is in part a way for our our current readers listeners Followers to get together and meet each other in person But it's also hopefully a way to get some more attention internationally as we're now trying to to build out The the things we're doing in Sweden to try to make versions of them for a global audience Well in the US We have a lot of European friends. There's a lot of Mises institutes in various countries in Europe Our perception which may be correct or incorrect our perception of European libertarianism, which is a broad phrase Is that it's more classical liberal a little less radical a little less anarcho-capitalist a little less Bitcoin centric and it's and it's not as Hoppy and Rothbardian more Hayekian would you say this is true? And is this something you're sort of fighting? Yes, I would say that it certainly has been true. I mean from from the 80s. We had in Sweden, for example somewhat strong libertarian movement, but it was very much a kind of a left-wing libertarian style neoliberal as we would say So that has been true traditionally, but I think it's it's about to change has been changing for the last 10 years or so the liberty movement is growing rapidly in Sweden as well as many other European countries and The growth we see is not in the kind of traditional libertarian networks or oriented around the neoliberal think tanks and so on it's a much more of an independent networks and organizations and in I think the main event that kind of Got that started to reignite that the libertarian movement was Ron Paul and his candidacy for presidency in 2008 and 2012 so Now when we meet new people we find new new libertarians Usually they don't come from the traditional political organizations. They haven't been in touch with the think tanks and so on They they read about Ron Paul online and got inspired and then they went to mises.org and read up And then maybe several years later. They found out that oh, there's actually libertarians in even in sweden And then they got in touch with us. So I think the the growth we see now is is almost exclusively in these these more radical Circles and for example in sweden, we have a very active and quite excellent local chapter of the mises institute for example They've been an inspiration for me and many others But we also have a huge anarcho capitalist community mostly based on facebook in facebook Discussion groups and they have over two thousand members You know in a narco capitalist group in sweden so so on a per capita basis that's that's Two swedes out of every ten thousand Are our members in this or narco capitalist group and that's that's quite amazing And now we have our project growing very rapidly and and has become the largest project and we're certainly a very radical Anarchist oriented And also have a kind of conservative approach rather than a progressive attitude towards cultural issues well You know martin this is really fascinating to me because in the united states as we saw with ron paul 320 million people It's very hard at the national level To have success. We don't have a parliamentary system. We have these two major parties That have locked down these primaries and so even with all the momentum and excitement for ron There were certain primaries where he got a very low percentage, you know, even of republican voters So in a country like sweden where you have i don't know what sweden eight or ten million people perhaps Do you do you feel like you have You know more ability to operate politically because you know a hundred thousand libertarians in sweden means more than a hundred thousand libertarians in the us Yes, I think that's true. I think that's true in part and there's there's drawbacks and benefits Of operating in in sweden. I think Today sweden is mostly known as this kind of ultra progressive left-wing paradise Kind of place, but that's that's not actually the I heard I heard somebody I heard somebody say sweden is the tumbler of countries Yeah, that's that's actually a good description. I guess So but but this is not actually the the history of sweden Sweden became left-wing quite recently and before that the tradition was quite different So I think there's a kind of swedish or scandinavian Nordic mentality Which actually has this kind of rugged individualism and we try to kind of reconnect to the the older traditions the older values and mentalities And we're having a lot of success Doing that. So I think that's And certainly as you say a smaller group can get More things done. I think in a small language area I also think in sweden. There's there's a huge vacuum. I mean in the u.s. There's plenty of libertarian podcasts, for example And now there's actually a good handful of them in sweden as well, but there's more of a this kind of vacuum For us to fill so there's less competition in some sense. You might say So obviously we are close friends with per biland Violent who is a swede living here in the united states. He's a professor of entrepreneurship at the university of oklahoma What what who are some other swedes? What are some other swedish names? We should know authors libertarians even politicians Well, I'm not sure who is who is visible on the international stage I mean, we have a lot of good people doing stuff in sweden So in particular, I would say the people around the mesis institute people like Joachim fagestrom claus band peintner Other people and they're doing an excellent podcast publishing a lot of good materials Otherwise, I think the people are doing really good work in sweden. They're not visible On on the international stage. So you wouldn't find any articles written by them in english and so on And so yo, akim. I had the opportunity to meet at Hans hoppers a pfs property and freedom society summit in bowdram turkey a few years back tell us about Your relationship with hoppa and how he came to be the headlining speaker at your upcoming conference Yeah, sure. So So when the the mesis institute started in sweden, I think this was 2011. They had the first swedish freedom fest their conference That was quite new their approach and their style was quite new on the libertarian scene because they had this kind of Conservative approach. They were talking about about hoppe, of course But it was much more about a palio libertarian It could kind of kind of style and and previously everything had been very very much kind of Neoliberal progressive culturally left-wing type of libertarianism and I was much more into the kind of a palio type of ideology So I was quite excited went to the first conference and went to several of the other conferences and I think this this kind of initiated a change where the The the conservative part of the movement grew and The the other part sort of withered away I wouldn't I wouldn't think about it as a conflict. We try to be a big tent. We try to be friendly with with everyone but the fact is that When we focus on a kind of more pure right-wing perspective and conservative values We're obviously growing a lot faster than the other ones are doing and Regarding hoppe. I simply think he's the the finest libertarian thinker Who is living currently? I'm I'm immensely impressed by his work on on several levels and so so I personally and many others try to Spread the word get people to read him refer to him as as a sort of theoretical authority and When we were putting together this conference The conference last year was kind of low low budget hastily put together just a few weeks before for it it occurred But this time we had more time to plan. So we made a list of of Speakers potential speakers. So who would we Really want to have if we could just make a wish and have anything we wanted Who would be the the absolute top speaker? We could imagine and and that was a really easy question that was obviously hoppe for us so so Sofia sent him an email and After a bit he said yes, and that was that was super exciting We actually caught some flak among swedish libertarians for inviting him and And promoting the conference with his name and so on But that's that that was that was mostly fun well I think hoppe's controversial opinions to the extent anyone thinks they're controversial I think are wildly overblown and I think a lot of hoppe's biggest critics Are those who are least familiar with his work I mean what we're really talking about here is a private society Of one's own making and that could be culturally as left right or otherwise As as the the in group cared to make it So I think a lot of this is overblown And I think a lot of hoppe's work on property rights and ethics Is our absolute must reads for anyone who calls themselves a libertarian So tell us a little bit about malta itself What what what are the appeals is is does malta have Does malta hold out opportunities for libertarians? Why have you come to to to live there and and hold your conference there? Yeah, so To begin with we wanted to get out of sweden since the situation in sweden is deteriorating rather rapidly and We wanted to be in a safer country Have some some calm and safety be surrounded by people with the traditional values And malta is a very good choice for many people in europe since it's part of the e-news It's very easy to travel here and get residency And so on it's They have a lot of kind of market liberal Approaches to government. They're very welcoming to to the people and companies The taxes are low regulations are generally quite tolerable The climate is is Very very good. It's quite excellent, especially if you come from from sweden So I think malta has a really good mix and there's a large expat community here generally Partly due to the regulations of online gambling and finance a few other industries Which makes people companies move here and people come here to work But there's also a growing libertarian Group here who are mostly just wanting to live live more freely under a free jurisdiction pay a little bit less taxes And so on so so we have regular meetups with just just the swedish libertarian expats on malta and have have big meetups A couple of times per month. So I think it's it's a good kind of It's a good escape hatch if you're in europe Because it's a lot better here than in most other places I mean a lot of the the problems going on in in the northern europe with the huge welfare states the ever-increasing taxes mass immigration Subsidized by the government and so on None of that stuff is really happening on malta. It's it's a very kind of a traditional Slow kind of Mediterranean society with basically no crazy stuff going on Well, it sounds like an absolutely fascinating place and i'm i'm looking forward to to seeing malta Give us your website and tell tell us how people can find out if they if they care to attend this conference Or at least find out more about corex generally Yes, so let me mention first that The corex website is c o r dot a x And the the conference website is c o n f conf dot corex dot news That's so that's that c o r a x dot news So so you also find a link to the conference from the main main corex site So that's that's a good place to start And are there presumably Pretty easy direct flights from places like rome frankfurt paris london into malta Yes, malta is something of a travel hub. So it's very easy to get here. They're cheap flights Different depending on where you come from obviously, but Basically anywhere you come from it's easy to get here and it's it's a rather inexpensive place. That's one of the reasons We like to live here and people come here Well martin erickson, thanks a million for your time and for putting together this conference and especially for hosting Hans herman hapa and promoting these these ideas. They're so important and for For having the courage and the vision to To leave sweden if that's what's best for you and your And and your life. So we look forward to meeting you in person Someday soon and take care. Thanks for having me