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Quarantine Bedtime Stories — 78 episodes

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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4-18-20 "The New Catacomb" (Arthur Conan Doyle horror, c. 1898) AKA "Burger's Secret"

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4-14-20 "THE HORROR OF THE HEIGHTS" (an Horror Yarn from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and a Sherlock-less Mystery)

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4-13-20 "NACHMAN SEVEN: The Fly and the Spider"

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4-12-20 "NACHMAN TEN: The Burgher and the Pauper"

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4-10-20 "Nachman Tale #9: The Clever Man and the Simple Man"

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4-9-20 “The Practice of the King” (take 8 or so) — audiobooking 1 Sam. ch 8

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4-2-20 "Brigadier Gerard and the Adventure of the One Napoleon"

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4-1-20 "Brigadier Gerard in the Castle of Gloom: some Conan Doyle Napoleonic Fiction"

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4-3-20 "The Horror at Red Hook" (H.P. Lovecraft; contains xenophobia and discussion thereof)

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3-30-20 "Reb Nachman, the Deaf One, and the Cruel King"

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3-29-20 "Reb Nachman and the Two Palaces"

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3-27-20 "Reb Nachman and the King's Son Who Was Made of Gemstones"

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3-26-20 "Captain Sharkey Tale #4" (an Arthur Conan Doyle pirate yarn)

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3-26-20 "Captain Sharkey #3" (an Arthur Conan Doyle pirate yarn!) "The Blighting of Sharkey"

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3-27-20 "Reb Nachman and the Book of Numbers"

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3-26-20 "A Houseboat on the Styx" (ft. Shakespeare, Nero, Dr. Johnson, and other deceased luminaries)

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3-24-20 "Capt. Sharkey Tale #2" (an Arthur Conan Doyle pirate-yarn)

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3-24-20 : "A Tale of Captain Sharkey" (one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's pirate stories:) "Sharkey Tale #1"

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3-23-20: "Shall the sword devour forever?" (ft. SAMUEL SAGA and BREAKING BAD)

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Audiobook: "Masque of the Red Death" ; commentary = on Plagues of to-day (3-22-20)

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3-21-20 "A Prayer for No-One's Enemy", and other Jewish Survivor Fiction

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3-21-20: a Prophecy of Covid-19, and the KZ.

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Ep. 4, Ch. 9: "Well, find those asses!" (a biblical audiobook)

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EPISODE SIX: Social Distancing from Sodom (3-20-20)

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E5: "The Practice of the King" (ruminations upon 1 Sam. 8, and timelessly sh!tty leadership)

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Ep. 3, Ch. 8: "Set Over Us a King to Rule!" (SAM SAGA audiobook)

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TAKE TWO -- Chapter Three (SAMUEL SAGA) biblical audiobooking

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DAY TWO OR THREE: "Under The Ban" (audiobooking SAMUEL SAGA, Act 1, Ch. 15)

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