Reading, Short And Deep #453
Eric S. Rabkin and Jesse Willis discuss The Idiot by Paul Dallas
Here’s a link to the story |PDF|.
The Idiot was first published in Amazing Stories, November 1956.
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Tag: friendship
The Highwayman by Lord Dunsany (read by Mike Vendetti)
I love The Highwayman by Lord Dunsany. It’s a terrific twelve minute tale, a prose poem of career criminals turned beneficent brigands. And my friend Mike Vendetti liked it a whole bunch too, have a listen a listen to his reading of it! |MP3|
Here’s a fully illustrated |PDF|.
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Death by Clarence E. Flynn
First published in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, October 1947, this short poem has never been reprinted.
DEATH
by Clarence E. FlynnWhy do you fear me?
I am your friend.
I but guide trav’lers
Rounding the bend-
Lead them to freedom
From time and age,
Help them start writing
On a new page….Seek for me never,
Keep your course true-
When I am needed
I’ll come to you,
Then I will show you
Roads without end-
Why do you fear me?
I am your friend.
Listen to Mister Jim Moon‘s reading of it: |MP3|
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LibriVox: The Highwayman by Lord Dunsany (aka The Highwaymen)
Sometimes titled The Highwayman, sometimes The Highwaymen, Lord Dunsany’s elegant prose poem is an 1,800 word tale about a scabrous gang of bastard highwaymen. And it has something for almost everyone.
I think, despite the sacrilege and desecration in the story, that my Christian friends will like it – it’s got a lot of that redemption stuff they are big on.
I’m confident that fans of capital punishment will like it – because it certainly doesn’t repudiate legalized killing.
And my friend, Gregg Margarite, who didn’t believe in any of the underlying mythology, liked it enough to read it for LibriVox.
And me?
Yep, I like The Highwayman too.
I like the overarching premise, about friendship, I think it’s heartwarming.
Plus it’s got lot of ghoulish shit in it, and I like that stuff too.
The Highwayman
By Lord Dunsany; Read by Gregg Margarite
1 |MP3| – Approx. 12 Minutes [UNABRIDGED]
Publisher: LibriVox.org
Published: January 13, 2010
First published in 1908.
Here’s a |PDF| made from the publication in Famous Fantastic Mysteries, December, 1944.
And here’s the Sidney H. Sime illustration from the original 1908 publication in The Sword Of Welleran and Other Stories:
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