OK, granted. Score for the defense that he even read it.
( But I still maintain his reading was at too fast a clip, and too dead pan. I can't doubt my own senses. He didn't have to hold forth in some theatrical or operatic manner. But he didn't have to slaughter the words as he did. It reminds me of when I let my therapist read my innermost thoughts aloud from my journal. He mangled it so badly, I ripped the notebook from his hand....He told me he resented me forcing him to read it aloud. )
I think your interpretation is colored by bias
