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Quarantine Bedtime Stories

by Adam Singer

I love reading bedtime stories, so this podcast has become a centering #QuarantineAndChill activity for me: audiobooking public-domain literature that most folx won't know, but now have time to read. All stories are linked in the episode-descriptions, if you want to read along or read more on your own!Open to suggestions for other public-domain things to read = find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

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  1. 10-8-20 "The Dreams of Enoch" (from Chapter 83 forward) TEXT FROM ancienttexts.org

    There is much to say; I'm gonna record a bit of it. We already know everything, it has just been hidden from us. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/4dreams/dreams.htm You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :) _____________ As per all the other segments, my head is (@ 3 past...

  2. 9-12-20/10-7-20 "Audiobooks of Enoch: Book 3, the Astronomy of Enoch" TEXT FROM ancienttexts.org

    There is much to say; I'm gonna record a bit of it. We already know everything, it has just been hidden from us. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/3astron/astro.htm You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :) ________________ Related link, Moses' knowledge of parabolic…

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  3. 9-1-20 "Audiobooks of Enoch: Book 2, the Parables of Enoch" TEXT FROM ancienttexts.org

    There is much to say; I'm gonna record a bit of it. We already know everything, it has just been hidden from us. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/2parables/parables.htm You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  4. 8-30-20 "Audiobooks of Enoch: Book 1, from ch. 11 to the end of Book One = "Book of the Watchers" ) TEXT FROM ancienttexts.org

    There is much to say; I'm gonna record a bit of it. We already know everything, it has just been hidden from us. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/1watchers/watchers.htm You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  5. 8-30-20 Cracking the Books of Enoch: starting at the start. TEXT FROM ancienttexts.org

    There is much to say; I'm gonna record a bit of it. We already know everything, it has just been hidden from us. http://www.ancienttexts.org/library/ethiopian/enoch/1watchers/watchers.htm You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :) _____________ A few other reference-points:...

  6. 7-12-20 "The SWOOP!!" (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) RECORDING # THREE

    Starting w intro, brief thoughts on the Invasion Genre, which was a thing in Britain from fin da sieckles, then died in 1914. Comments upon the two best-known things of that genre. Also somewhat on P.G. Wodehouse, whose wikipage (attached below) is extraordinarily thorough. The man lived from 15...

  7. 7-24-20 "The 450 Prophets of Melkart" (typing ASMR / ruminations upon 1 Kings 18)

    Typing up, inspired feeling. Ahab Elijah the 450 prophets, and Jezebel. Connections to much else. Zimri Omri. And Baal. And the Phoenician baal Melkart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  8. 7-2/19/31-20 "Of Human Sacrifice" (partly audiobook of Crowley; partly discussing APOCALYPTO. Slight time-travel.)

    Description to be done nicely later. Editing this episode on the last day of July, so it gets out (having been primarily recorded on the 2nd) this month! FULL DESCRIPTION LATER; original text below: https://hermetic.com/crowley/book-4/chap12 and Table of Contents, same site =...

  9. 7-23-20 "The 450 Prophets of Baal" (typing ASMR / ruminations upon 1 Kings 18)

    Typing up, inspired feeling. Ahab Elijah the 450 prophets, and Jezebel. Connections to much else. Zimri Omri. And Baal. And the Phoenician baal Melkart. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  10. 7-12-20 "The SWOOP!!" (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909) PART TWO (picking up @ Ch. FOUR)

    Starting w intro, brief thoughts on the Invasion Genre, which was a thing in Britain from fin da sieckles, then died in 1914. Comments upon the two best-known things of that genre. Also somewhat on P.G. Wodehouse, whose wikipage (attached below) is extraordinarily thorough. The man lived from 15...

  11. 7-12-20 "The SWOOP!!" (P.G. Wodehouse, 1909)

    Starting w intro, brief thoughts on the Invasion Genre, which was a thing in Britain from fin da sieckles, then died in 1914. Comments upon the two best-known things of that genre. Also somewhat on P.G. Wodehouse, whose wikipage (attached below) is extraordinarily thorough. The man lived from 15...

  12. 6-27-20 "One Line near the Anchor of Evil" -- see last few podcasts, the development of this thing. :-)

    X You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  13. 6-25-20 "Circling the Kettle" // also: ONE MONTH. Since George Floyd's lynching, and #DefundThePolice. // where we are at

    X You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  14. 5-24-20 / 6-25-20 "Part 2 of METAMORPHOSIS" (Kafka, 1915) -- reading in both German and English; two-column text linked to description.

    Since starting this podcast, I've begun offering to record stories for friends and family, as gifts -- something unique and hopefully entertaining, like the rest of this series, but specifically given as a gift. In this case, a late one: my mom never read Kafka's "Metamorphosis", and requested…

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  15. 6-20/23-20 explaining Midrashim (biblical fanfiction) -- Pirkei Avot 5:6 (text of in episode-description, & source-link)

    I've mentioned before, that midrashim are essentially biblical fanfiction; in this episode, one of the things I'm doing is examining the one linked below, which has the source-link below the inset tale: Ten things were created on the eve of the Sabbath at twilight, and these are they: [1] the…

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  16. 6-19-20 "Untitled STAR MATERIAL scene". Typing-ASMR in first part, then musing out loud, and the final chunk is on biblical metanarrative.

    Continuation of return to STAR MATERIAL. I am deeply irritated at my laptop having lost the 40-or-so windows I had up, because of stupid glitchy shit. Will write a better/more relevant description for this later. again: "Green Grass & HiGH TIDES" = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk You...

  17. 6-19-20 Juneteenth return to STAR MATERIAL. Another typing-ASMR.

    Dancing around something here. Gonna be more typing this time, pretty sure :P Returning to STAR MATERIAL now, writing that lunch-scene at long last. Enough things have fallen into place. GREEN GRASS & HIGH TIDES = https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R82OM5tzcrk You can find me on Twitter…

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  18. 6-14-20 "A Modest Proposal" (1729)

    I tried this earlier in the life of this podcast, but couldn't keep it together. By the time anyone reads this, you will have had a chance to evaluate that for yourself. You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  19. 6-14-20 "Skipping Ahead and somewhat Above: the Lord of Kings".

    Woke up this morning with a pressure-headache. Felt like something coming. This may record part of it. You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  20. 6-1-20 typing ASMR: "still-untitled horror yarn" (continuing from last night's broadcast:)

    Continuing experiment from last night. Still keeping sparse on the actual details of the story, but it was fascinating to hear how FAST I type. Still fresh enough to remember exactly what I was writing as I re-listened, but that's gonna be ....... whatever this is. Hopefully entertaining. You can...

  21. 5-31-20 EXPERIMENT -- typing up something handwritten earlier. Kinda ASMR.

    Simplicity, even further, and another experiment: friend o'mine who's been listening to the podcasts has remarked that he enjoys hearing me typing. Already, the bedtime-stories has an ASMR element to them: reading slowly and clearly, and trying to make them captivating. But what if -- instead of…

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  22. 5-14-20 "Pigeons From Hell" (Robert E. Howard, 1938) -- Contains Antebellum Language

    This story IS public-domain, despite its late date relative to most of my recordings thus far. That's because of pulp-fiction magazines, something with copyright laws. Lucky for us :) I just read Algernon Blackwood's "The Wendigo" (1910), and in going through the Wikipage for that story…

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  23. 5-23-20 "The Bulk of the People of Langdon" (Voyage 3, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS -- 1723) w. analysis by George Orwell

    It's a long and hilarious diatribe, and will take awhile in any case, so I'm not gonna stop to do a substantive intro, just making sure that this goes out with the source-link and my Twitter handle :) also please note: in addition to GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, I'm reading part of Orwell's essay on…

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  24. 5-21-20 "Voyage to Laputa" (Voyage 3, GULLIVER'S TRAVELS -- 1723)

    Yes, It's a long and hilarious diatribe, and will take awhile in any case, so I'm not gonna stop to do a substantive intro, just making sure that this goes out with the source-link and my Twitter handle :) https://www.gutenberg.org/files/829/829-h/829-h.htm You can find me on Twitter…

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  25. 5-21 -20 "Metamorphosis" (Kafka, 1915: reading in German) -- for Mother's Day, by request and somewhat delayed.

    Since starting this podcast, I've begun offering to record stories for friends and family, as gifts -- something unique and hopefully entertaining, like the rest of this series, but specifically given as a gift. In this case, a late one: my mom never read Kafka's "Metamorphosis", and requested…

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  26. 5-20-20 "The Song of Deborah" (reading in Hebrew, with translation / commentary) -- JUDGES chapter 5

    Since realizing that I can audiobook in other languages (which I'm familiar with enough to read the text, which is the most important thing in this medium), I've done a few Grimm fairytales, and last night recorded a biblical chapter (1 Sam. 15) that had been the very first podcast I did -- check...

  27. 5-20-20 "Back Under the Ban" (returning to my first podcast, but this time reading in the original Hebrew!) -- 1 Samuel ch 15

    My very first podcast was a loose reading/discussion of this chapter, from the remarkable SAMUEL SAGA (which is usu AKA "the Books of Samuel"), which I chose for a few reasons: it is a great introduction to the dynamic of Saul and Samuel, and -- as I said in my first episode, and will say again…

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  28. 5-19-20 "Rapunzel" (audiobooking in German) -- with dual-text webpage linked in podcast description

    My experiment with phonetic-audiobooking (i.e. I can pronounce the language more reliably than I can actually parse it idiomatically) continues, with another Grimm tale -- unintentionally, a great starting point, cuz listeners likely know a neutered version of this evening's tale -- that of...

  29. 5-19-20 "Tevye the Milkman (AKA Fiddler on the Roof) in Yiddish" --- reading in Yiddish/English, from 1910 collection

    After reading Red Riding-Hood in German earlier in the evening (during which I noted a few other stories I can audiobook in other languages!), I was gonna do one of the Tevye Stories by Sholom Aleichem -- called "the Jewish Mark Twain" in his time, which is an apt contemporary analogue. As I type...

  30. 5-18-20 "Rotkäppchen" (AKA Little Red Riding Hood) -- German-language reading

    OK, new experiment with this fabulous format and freedom, and how I've been audiobooking stuff. To wit: public domain fiction, with my inclinations towards fantasy and horror. But tonight's (whenever) reading will be my first NON-ENGLISH audiobooking. I took German in college, and -- while I...

  31. 5-17/18-20 "Gulliver Travels and Orwell Considers" -- VOYAGE FOUR (picking up with Ch. 5 = yahoos, &c)

    Returning to GULLIVER'S TRAVELS, continuing Voyage Four. As before/always, I'm side-noting and rambling, & gonna start with Orwell (recently found his essay on Gulliver = "Politics Vs Literature", Oct. 1946), and his perspective on the caustic genius of Jonathan Swift. I ordered a physical copy…

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  32. 5-13-20 "The Wendigo" (Algernon Blackwood, 1910)

    Quick note now, cuz I've got an energy-spike into doing another reading. Been tired this week, trying to get goin' and whatnot. This is a horror-yarn by Algernon Blackwood, whose name I know as an inspiration on H.P. Lovecraft, but whose works I confess I haven't read. But am about to do so,...

  33. 5-7-20 "A Pirate of the Land" (Conan Doyle, 1905-ish)

    I've read previous of Conan Doyle's pirate stories, and intend to (f'rinstance, right now!) record more, and HIGHLY recommend y'all check out the quartet of Captain Sharkey tales at the start of the collection linked below. It's been a general travesty for over a century, but in this time of...

  34. 5-6-20 "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (Mark Twain, 1889) Ch. 7: "Merlin's Tower"

    This evening's show / more Tell, is a chapter from Mark Twain's delightful "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" (1889). H.G. Wells' "The Time Machine" came out in 1895, so -- although the logic of this novel is less plausible than Wells' idea of a machine built for traveling through…

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  35. May the 4th Bewitch You! -- "King Saul and the Witch of Endor" ( 1 Sam. 28 // SAM SAGA, right at the end of Act One)

    It's just past midnight. I just recorded the thing about Nachman and demons in the ergot, and was/am gonna throw together some vanilla-bean icecream with oreos -- but then I realized. It is past midnight into one of the high holy fandom-days: MAY THE FOURTH BE WITH YOU! (followed by, of course,...

  36. 5-3-20 "Reb Nachman and the Demons in the Rye" ///// SEE ALSO: Salem Witch Trials; ergotism ; mass hysteria

    This evening's tale is a bit unusual, as things continue to GET more unusual. It's come to my attention in the most peculiar way, and genuinely ....... you're gonna see. Whatever this thing looks like by the time I hit PUBLISH NOW, and Anchor sends this podcast out. (Recognizing that the readings...

  37. 5-2-20 "Gulliver Travels from Luggnagg to Japan, and thence to the land of the Houyhnhnms" (Jonathan Swift, 1723)

    Everyone knows that thing about Gulliver getting shipwrecked on a land of tiny people. Yawn. Seen that endlessly, and Swift would be FURIOUS that that was all anyone remembers of his masterpiece. So -- as with the rest of this podcast -- I'm here to correct that longstanding atrocity....

  38. 5-2-20 "An Adventure at Brownville" (A. Bierce & Miss Ina Lillian Peterson, 1892)

    Returning -- after his cheerfully zany and cutting FABLES -- to Ambrose Bierce's piercing and poignant TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. I wanted to publish "Killed at Resaca" (see below, in the podcast-list), so I can record a Civilian-tale also -- "An Adventure at Brownville" -- and have both...

  39. 5-2-20 "Killed at Resaca" (Ambrose Bierce, 1892) -- Civil War: a tale of heroism and cowardice

    Returning -- after his cheerfully zany and cutting FABLES -- to Ambrose Bierce's piercing and poignant TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. I want to publish this one (one of the Soldiers), so I can record a Civilian-tale also, and have both available for listeners who might not be curious enough to...

  40. 4-28 // 5-1 (both 2020) "Fantastic Fables" of Ambrose Bierce (1899) DANGER CONTAINS POLITICAL SATIRE

    This episode is gonna be a weird one for everyone, cuz I'm scrambling time somewhat. You'll see. The Bierce fables, I was gonna read ALL OF THEM in one giant sitting, because they're hilarious and (#QuarantineLife) I'm not expected anyplace by a time tomorrow. Apparently, the recording-limit for...

  41. 4-28-20 “A Cask of Amontillado” (Edgar Allan Poe, 1847)

    In a way, Covid-19 led not only to my (and everyone) starting a podcast, but actually the main thrust of it as well. I started out with some vague ideas about what I could do that might be unique, formatted so that it won't get boring for me, and that hopefully will be amusing to listeners. It's...

  42. 4-26-20 "The Beetle-Hunter" (a Sherlock-less mystery from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

    It is 2:12am on May Day, 2020, and after finishing my audiobooking of Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Lodging for the Night" (1877), I am writing the descriptions for some unpublished-but-recorded tales. Like this one, right here right now! "The Beetle Hunter" is a peculiar tale from Conan Doyle -- a...

  43. 4-21-20 "The Brazilian Cat" (Conan Doyle: main character named King, who owns a puma. For real -- PUMA KING!! )

    This is where the time-travel-aspect of my OCD-podcasting is gonna kick up a notch. Cuz I've had a number of stories recorded but unpublished (cuz they needed this accompanying essay, and link to the story), and as I type this -- two ay-em, of May Day -- I've got the right energy and focus to...

  44. 4-20-20 "The Terror of Blue John Gap" (Arthur Conan Doyle tale almost DEFINITELY known to HP Lovecraft)

    It is 1:50am on May Day, 2020, and after finishing my audiobooking of Robert Louis Stevenson's "A Lodging for the Night" (1877), I am writing the descriptions for some unpublished-but-recorded tales. Like this one, right here right now! And weirdly, serendipitously: this...

  45. 5-1-20 "A Lodging for the Night" (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1877) — April 30th into MAY DAY !!! --

    This evening's/wee-hours-of-May-Day yarn is from Robert Louis Stevenson (story c. 1877). If that name rings a bell, it's probably from TREASURE ISLAND or THE STRANGE CASE OF DOCTOR JEKYLL AND Mr. HYDE -- but like the unknown Conan Doyle stories I've been recording, R.L.S. has a lively canon. If...

  46. 4-24-20 "Round the Red Lamp: A Medical Document" (Conan Doyle, medical fiction)

    Three doctors sitting around a fire -- a surgeon, a GP and an alienist (AKA psychiatrist) -- swap stories of medical mishaps. Arthur Conan Doyle was a doctor before his writing, and ROUND THE RED LAMP contains some of his medical stories. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/423/423-h/423-h.htm#chap11...

  47. 4-20-20 "Carl Sagan on Marihuana, c. 1970ish" (essay, google "Mr X Carl Sagan" -- from MARIHUANA RECONSIDERED)

    Sweet and simple: for 4/20 (and the MONTH 4 / '20 !) I've recorded (earlier this month, cuz it's Earth Day Week, and I've got a bunch going on with Sunrise this week:) the anonymously-published and outstanding Carl Sagan essay which saw daylight in 1971, in Lester Grinspoon's phenomenal MARIHUANA...

  48. 4-18-20 "The Leather Funnel" (an Arthur Conan Doyle spiritualist-horror yarn!)

    Another Conan Doyle horror yarn, with a strong spiritualist influence upon this'un. I'll let the Funnel speak for itself.... https://www.gutenberg.org/files/537/537-h/537-h.htm#funnel You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

  49. 4-18-20 "Professor Challenger and THE LOST WORLD" (Conan Doyle, not Jules Verne)

    I have been wanting to record this scene since far earlier in my podcasting, and the idea to do audiobooks for unknown fiction/literature. But of ALL things, the push to do so came from late in the day of binging (@ adultswim.com) BLACK DYNAMITE. An excellent show, if you can dig it. The humor is...

  50. 4-19-20 "The Case of Lady Sannox" (Conan Doyle: a mystery without a Holmes)

    I've begun listening back over these podcasts as my own bedtime stories, after late-night recordings ........ But this one, honestly, I didn't wanna revisit right before going to sleep. https://www.gutenberg.org/files/537/537-h/537-h.htm#sannox You can find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

I love reading bedtime stories, so this podcast has become a centering #QuarantineAndChill activity for me: audiobooking public-domain literature that most folx won't know, but now have time to read. All stories are linked in the episode-descriptions, if you want to read along or read more on your own!Open to suggestions for other public-domain things to read = find me on Twitter @timeofposting :)

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