WEBVTT - The 14th Annual Halloween Spooktacular!

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<v Speaker 1>Welcome to stuff you should know a production of iHeartRadio.

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<v Speaker 2>Hey, and welcome to the Spectacular. I'm Josh, and there's

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<v Speaker 2>Chuck and Jerry, the Ghoul Jerome Roland is here and

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<v Speaker 2>we're about to get jiggy with it Halloween style.

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<v Speaker 1>That's right. It's one of our favorite episodes of the year. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>we like to remind everyone. This is one of two

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<v Speaker 1>ad free episodes we do every year, that's right. And

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<v Speaker 1>I feel like lately we have been just sort of

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<v Speaker 1>for the uninitiated, giving a quick overview of what we

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<v Speaker 1>do here on Halloween, and that is we read a

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<v Speaker 1>couple of public domain scary stories short stories from now

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<v Speaker 1>we're up to nineteen twenty eight and previous.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, yeah, I think so, maybe nineteen twenty seven one

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<v Speaker 2>of the two.

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<v Speaker 1>These aren't even that I think these Mine was from

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<v Speaker 1>before that, even though.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we're not even close to the line right now.

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<v Speaker 1>No, we don't want to get litigious for anyone to

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<v Speaker 1>get litigious with us. So that's right, we're not even

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<v Speaker 1>dancing close to the line.

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<v Speaker 2>If you have no idea what we're talking about goes

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<v Speaker 2>into our intellectual property episode. It basically explains our Halloween.

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<v Speaker 1>Episode that's right, but we you know, Josh picks one out,

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<v Speaker 1>I pick one out. It has become very fun in

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<v Speaker 1>recent years as Josh has gotten more creative with his

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<v Speaker 1>voice work.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm actually really kind of nervous because it's a

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<v Speaker 2>tough act to follow, and I thought, well, I'll just

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<v Speaker 2>bring Megl back, and I have been summoning Megal's spirit

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<v Speaker 2>to take over my body again.

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<v Speaker 1>Nothing.

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<v Speaker 2>Nothing, I've done so many unspeakable acts as offerings to

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<v Speaker 2>bring meg back. And basically I'm like Emma Roberts at

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<v Speaker 2>the end of Black Coat's Daughter, just screaming and frustration

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<v Speaker 2>because I can't get possessed again. So I'm sorry everyone,

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<v Speaker 2>I don't think Megl's going to be here this year.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it's like Emma Roberts at the end of Black

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<v Speaker 1>Coat's Daughter, screaming like everyone in the theater. I don't

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<v Speaker 1>even look that much like that other girl.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was a rather serious transition.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah that was just me though, But I know what

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<v Speaker 1>you mean. It seems like there's nowhere to go but

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<v Speaker 1>down after Megle. I mean, that was an a Josh

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<v Speaker 1>apex for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>So I guess that maybe we'll just call this episode

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<v Speaker 2>a wash I won't even try, and we'll get back

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<v Speaker 2>to business again next year. How about that?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that sounds great. And you know, I actually did

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<v Speaker 1>a little road testing of some different British accents, but

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<v Speaker 1>I have no idea what's going to come out of

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<v Speaker 1>my mouth or yours, and that it's not going to

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<v Speaker 1>be as rehearsed.

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<v Speaker 3>I've learned to speak German, right, Really, no, I had

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<v Speaker 3>to say.

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<v Speaker 2>If I had, I would not have told you or

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<v Speaker 2>anybody else ahead of time. Just now. I would have

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<v Speaker 2>just started speaking German.

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<v Speaker 3>That would have been amazing, it would have been.

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<v Speaker 2>But this episode's a wash this year, so I'm not

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<v Speaker 2>going to be speaking German either.

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<v Speaker 1>Which one do you want to start with? You want

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<v Speaker 1>to do yours or mine? I think they're both terrific.

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<v Speaker 2>I don't know. I've got no persuasion either way, or

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<v Speaker 2>I'm not being persuaded either way. Is there any of

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<v Speaker 2>the two that you feel even remotely more like should

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<v Speaker 2>go first?

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<v Speaker 1>You know, for some reason, instinctually, I just want to

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<v Speaker 1>pick up yours.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay.

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<v Speaker 1>I think it's the gripping and spooky and a good

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<v Speaker 1>place setter, and it's you know, it's HG. Wells, It's

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<v Speaker 1>a classic author.

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so let's dig into yours, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>HG.

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<v Speaker 1>Wells trying to remember my parts though.

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<v Speaker 2>So you are the old man with the shade on

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<v Speaker 2>his head.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, he's the one that walks in last right.

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<v Speaker 2>Yes, and then the old lady. Oh perfect, okay, And

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<v Speaker 2>this is HG. Wells, everybody, the guy who predicted our

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<v Speaker 2>current rocket program with NASA and wrote the time Machine

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<v Speaker 2>and did all sorts of really neat stuff. He also

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<v Speaker 2>wrote a scary story. And that's what we're going to

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<v Speaker 2>read now. It's called The Red Room. So Chuck, how

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<v Speaker 2>about you narrate first? Uh?

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<v Speaker 3>Okay, Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the reading of The

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<v Speaker 3>Red Room by H. G. Wells.

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<v Speaker 2>No I meant in the story?

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<v Speaker 1>Oh oh oh yeah, sure, I didn't know what you meant.

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<v Speaker 1>I was like, what narration?

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<v Speaker 2>Youre?

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<v Speaker 1>You talking about your reading?

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<v Speaker 2>You're like, all right, don't give it a try. Okay, okay,

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<v Speaker 2>you're ready.

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<v Speaker 1>Sure, but but you're you're playing the main guys. You're

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<v Speaker 1>starting right exactly. Okay.

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<v Speaker 2>I can assure you, said I that it will take

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<v Speaker 2>a very tangible ghost to frighten me.

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<v Speaker 1>And I stood up before the fire with my glass

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<v Speaker 1>in my hand.

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<v Speaker 2>It is your own choosing.

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<v Speaker 1>Said the man with the withered arm.

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<v Speaker 2>I want to take that again.

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<v Speaker 1>Okay, it's your own choosy, said the man with a

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<v Speaker 1>withered arm, and glanced at me askance.

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<v Speaker 2>Eight and twenty years, said I I have lived, and

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<v Speaker 2>never a ghost have I seen. As yet.

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<v Speaker 1>The old woman sat staring hard into the fire, her

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<v Speaker 1>pale eyes wide open.

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<v Speaker 3>Iye, she broke.

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<v Speaker 4>In, and eighty and twenty years, you have lived and

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<v Speaker 4>never seen the likes of this house, I reckon. There's

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<v Speaker 4>a many things to see when one's still but eight

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<v Speaker 4>and twenty.

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<v Speaker 1>She's she's making fun of this guy for being twenty

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<v Speaker 1>eight years old. Yeah, she swayed her head slowly from

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<v Speaker 1>side to side. A many things to see and sorrow for.

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<v Speaker 1>I half suspected the old people were trying to enhance

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<v Speaker 1>the spiritual terrors of their house by their droning insistence.

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<v Speaker 1>I put down my empty glass on the table and

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<v Speaker 1>looked about the room and caught a glimpse of myself

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<v Speaker 1>abbreviated and broadened to an impossible sturdiness in the queer

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<v Speaker 1>old mirror at the end of the room.

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<v Speaker 2>Well, I said, if I see anything tonight, I shall

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<v Speaker 2>be much the wiser before I come to the business

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<v Speaker 2>with an open mind. I'm so disappointed with myself this year.

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<v Speaker 2>Uh oh, yeah, it's me is your.

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<v Speaker 1>Choosing, said the man with a withered arm. Once more,

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<v Speaker 1>I heard the faint sound of a stick and a

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<v Speaker 1>shambling step on the flags, and the passage outside the

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<v Speaker 1>door creaked on its hinges. As a second old man entered,

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<v Speaker 1>more bent, more wrinkled, more aged even than the first.

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<v Speaker 1>He supported himself by the help of a crutch. His

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<v Speaker 1>eyes were covered by a shade, and his lower lip

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<v Speaker 1>half averted, hung pale and pink from his decaying yellow teeth.

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<v Speaker 1>He made straight for an armchair on the opposite side

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<v Speaker 1>of the table, sat down clumsily, and began to cough.

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<v Speaker 1>The man with a withered hand gave the newcomer a

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<v Speaker 1>short glance of positive dislikes. The old woman took no

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<v Speaker 1>notice of his arrival, but remained with her eyes picked

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<v Speaker 1>steadily in the fire.

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<v Speaker 5>I said it to your own choosing.

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<v Speaker 1>Said the man with a withered hand, when the coughing

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<v Speaker 1>had ceased for a while.

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<v Speaker 3>It's my own choosing, I answered.

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<v Speaker 1>The man with the shade became aware of my presence

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<v Speaker 1>for the first time, and threw his head back for

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<v Speaker 1>a moment and sideways to seebee. I caught a momentary

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<v Speaker 1>glimpse of his eyes, small and bright and inflamed. Then

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<v Speaker 1>he began to cough and sputter again.

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<v Speaker 5>Why did you drink?

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<v Speaker 1>Said the man with a withered arm, pushing the beer

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<v Speaker 1>toward him. The man with the shade poured out a

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<v Speaker 1>glassful with a shaking hand that splashed half as much

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<v Speaker 1>again on the deal table. Stress shadow of him crouched

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<v Speaker 1>upon the wall and mocked his action as he poured

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<v Speaker 1>and drank. I must confess I had scarcely expected these

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<v Speaker 1>grotesque custodians. There is to my mind something inhuman, insinility,

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<v Speaker 1>something crouching and atavistic. The human quality seemed to drop

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<v Speaker 1>from old people insensibly. Day by day, the three of

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<v Speaker 1>them made me feel uncomfortable, with their gaunt silences, their

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<v Speaker 1>bent carriage, their evident unfriendliness to me and to one another.

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<v Speaker 1>And that night, perhaps I was in the mood for

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<v Speaker 1>uncomfortable impressions. I resolved to get away from their vague

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<v Speaker 1>foreshadowings of the evil things upstairs.

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<v Speaker 3>So ageous, very ageist.

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<v Speaker 1>If said I.

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<v Speaker 2>I will show me to this haunted room of yours.

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<v Speaker 2>I will make myself comfortable there.

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<v Speaker 1>The old man, with a cough, jerked his head back

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<v Speaker 1>so suddenly that it startled me, and shot another glance

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<v Speaker 1>of his red eyes at me from out of the

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<v Speaker 1>darkness under the shade. But no one answered me. I

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<v Speaker 1>waited a minute, glancing from one to the other. The

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<v Speaker 1>old woman stared like a dead body, glaring into the

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<v Speaker 1>fire with lackluster eyes. Ef I said a little louder.

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<v Speaker 2>If you will show me to this haunted room of yours,

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<v Speaker 2>I will relieve you from the task of entertaining me.

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<v Speaker 5>There's a cannon on the slab outside.

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<v Speaker 1>The door, said the man, with a withered hand, looking

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<v Speaker 1>at my feet as he address me.

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<v Speaker 5>If you go to the red room tonight.

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<v Speaker 1>This night of all nights, said the old woman softly.

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<v Speaker 1>You go alone, very well, I answered shortly, And.

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<v Speaker 2>Which way do I go? This guy's sick of the

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<v Speaker 2>old people by now. He's just satically mad at.

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<v Speaker 1>Them, he is. He's being very aggressive.

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<v Speaker 5>You go along the passage for a little bit.

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<v Speaker 1>Said he, nodding his head on his shoulder at the door.

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<v Speaker 2>Until you come to a spiral stircase. And on the

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<v Speaker 2>second landing is a door covered with green baize. Go

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<v Speaker 2>through that, and on the corner at the end of

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<v Speaker 2>the red room is on your left, up the steps.

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<v Speaker 1>Have I got that right, I said, and repeated his directions.

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<v Speaker 1>He corrected me in one particular. And are you really going,

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<v Speaker 1>said the man with the shade, looking at me again

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<v Speaker 1>for the third time with that queer, unnatural tilting.

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<v Speaker 3>Of the face.

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<v Speaker 1>This night of all nights, whispered the old woman.

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<v Speaker 2>It is what I came for.

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<v Speaker 1>I said, and moved toward the door. As I did so,

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<v Speaker 1>the old man with the shade rose and staggered round

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<v Speaker 1>the table so as to be closer to the others

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<v Speaker 1>and to the fire at the door. I turned and

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<v Speaker 1>looked at them, and saw they were all close together,

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<v Speaker 1>dark against the firelight, staring at me over their shoulders,

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<v Speaker 1>with an intent expression on their ancient faces.

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<v Speaker 3>Good night, I said, setting the door open.

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<v Speaker 1>It's yourn't choosing, said the man with a withered arm.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, so as we like to do little recap.

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<v Speaker 1>This guy has come to this spooky place, and there

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<v Speaker 1>are three olds there. And this guy didn't like olds.

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<v Speaker 2>No, he doesn't like them, and they don't seem to

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<v Speaker 2>like him very much. I think they also are taking

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<v Speaker 2>him as foolish over the cavalier and getting himself into

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<v Speaker 2>hot water.

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<v Speaker 1>To put it mildly, Yeah, because he wants to spend

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<v Speaker 1>the night in this room that we don't even know

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<v Speaker 1>anything about. But I'm already scared.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a scary room that you would not want

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<v Speaker 2>to go into. They're kind of half talking about of it.

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<v Speaker 2>Maybe I don't know, maybe a quarter.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, you ready, I'll buy that. Yeah, let's go

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<v Speaker 1>switch it up.

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<v Speaker 2>I left the door wide open until the candle was

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<v Speaker 2>well alight, and then I shut them in and walked

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<v Speaker 2>down the chilly, echoing passage. I must confess that the

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<v Speaker 2>oddness of these three old pensioners in whose charge her

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<v Speaker 2>Ladyship had left the castle, and the deep toned, old

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<v Speaker 2>fashioned furniture of the housekeeper room in which they foregathered,

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<v Speaker 2>had affected me curiously, in spite of my effort to

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<v Speaker 2>keep myself at a matter of fact phase. They seem

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<v Speaker 2>to belong to another age, in older age, in age

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<v Speaker 2>when things spiritual were indeed to be feared, when common

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<v Speaker 2>sense was uncommon, In age when omens and witches were credible,

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<v Speaker 2>and ghosts beyond denying their very existence, thought I as spectral,

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<v Speaker 2>the cut of their clothing, fashions born in dead brains.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he's talking about no incore here. Yeah, the

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<v Speaker 2>ornaments and conveniences in the room about them even are ghostly,

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<v Speaker 2>the thoughts of vanished men which still haunt rather than

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<v Speaker 2>participate in the world of today. And the passage I

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<v Speaker 2>was in, long and shadowy, with a film of moisture

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<v Speaker 2>glistening on the wall, was as gaunt and cold as

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<v Speaker 2>a thing that is dead and rigid. But with an

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<v Speaker 2>effort I sent such thoughts to the right. About the long,

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<v Speaker 2>drafty subterranean passage was chilly and dusty, and my candle

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<v Speaker 2>flared and made the shadows cower and quiver. The echoes

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<v Speaker 2>rang up and down the spiral staircase, and a shadow

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<v Speaker 2>came sweeping up after me, and another fled before me

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<v Speaker 2>into the darkness overhead. They came to the wide landing

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<v Speaker 2>and stopped there for a moment, listening to a rustling

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<v Speaker 2>that I fancied I heard creeping behind me, and then,

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<v Speaker 2>satisfied of the absolute silence, pushed open the unwilling baze

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<v Speaker 2>covered door and stood in the silent.

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<v Speaker 3>Corridor bays is like a felt.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I got, too, Like what they used to

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<v Speaker 2>put on billiard tables.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, might look nice on a door. You never know.

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<v Speaker 2>It's a weird choice, kind of upsetting if you think

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<v Speaker 2>about it. Should I keep going?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay.

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<v Speaker 2>The effect was scarcely what I expected for. The moonlight

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<v Speaker 2>coming in by the great window on the grand staircase

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<v Speaker 2>picked out everything in vivid black shadow or reticulated silvery illumination.

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<v Speaker 2>Everything seemed in its proper position. The house might have

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<v Speaker 2>been deserted on the yesterday instead of twelve months ago.

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<v Speaker 2>There were candles in the sockets of the sconces, and

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<v Speaker 2>whatever dust had gathered on the carpets or upon the

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<v Speaker 2>polished flooring was distributed so evenly as to be invisible

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<v Speaker 2>in my candlelight. A waiting stillness was over everything. I

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<v Speaker 2>was about to advance, and stopped abruptly. A bronze group

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<v Speaker 2>stood upon the landing, hidden from me by a corner

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<v Speaker 2>of the wall, but its shadow fell with marvelous distinctness

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<v Speaker 2>upon the white paneling and gave me the impression of

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<v Speaker 2>someone crouching to waylay me. The thing jumped upon my attention.

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<v Speaker 2>Suddenly I stood rigid for half a moment perhaps, Then,

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<v Speaker 2>with my hand in the pocket that held the revolver,

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<v Speaker 2>I advanced only to discover a Gany Mead and eagle

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<v Speaker 2>glistening in the moonlight. That incident, for a time restored

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<v Speaker 2>my nerve by the way, Ganny Mead was the most

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<v Speaker 2>beautiful mortal in Grease whose Zeus napped and took as

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<v Speaker 2>a basically a love slave.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and a Ganny Meat and eagle was just like

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<v Speaker 1>a little statue of an eagle with this scanny meat character.

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<v Speaker 2>But the shadow was super scary.

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<v Speaker 3>For a second, I believe it.

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<v Speaker 2>The door of the Red Room and the steps up

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<v Speaker 2>to it were in a shadowy corner. I moved my

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<v Speaker 2>candle from side to side in order to see clearly

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<v Speaker 2>the nature of the recess in which I stood before

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<v Speaker 2>opening the door. Here it was I thought that my

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<v Speaker 2>predecessor was found, and the memory of the story gave

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<v Speaker 2>me a sudden twinge of apprehension. I glanced over my

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<v Speaker 2>shoulder at the black Ganny meat in the moonlight, and

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<v Speaker 2>opened the door of the Red Room rather hastily, With

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<v Speaker 2>my face half turned to the pallid silence of the corridor.

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<v Speaker 2>I entered closed the door behind me at once turned

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<v Speaker 2>the key I found in the lock within, and stood

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<v Speaker 2>with the candle help of off surveying the scene of

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<v Speaker 2>my vigil, the great red room of Lowering Castle, in

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<v Speaker 2>which the young Duke had died, or rather in which

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<v Speaker 2>he had begun his dying, For he had opened the

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<v Speaker 2>door and fallen headlong down the steps I had just ascended.

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<v Speaker 2>That had been the end of his vigil, of his

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<v Speaker 2>gallant attempt to conquer the ghostly tradition of the place,

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<v Speaker 2>And never I thought, had apoplexy better served the ends

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<v Speaker 2>of superstition. There were other older stories that clung to

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<v Speaker 2>the room, back to the half incredible beginning of it all,

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<v Speaker 2>the tale of a timid wife and the tragic end

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<v Speaker 2>that came to her husband's chest of frightening her. And

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<v Speaker 2>looking round that huge, shadowy room, with its black window bays,

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<v Speaker 2>its recesses and alcoves, its dusty brown red hangings, and

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<v Speaker 2>dark gigantic furniture, one could well understand the legends that

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<v Speaker 2>had sprouted in its black corners, its germinating darknesses. My

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<v Speaker 2>candle was a little tongue of light in the vastness

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<v Speaker 2>of the chamber. Its rays failed to pierce to the

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<v Speaker 2>opposite end of the room and left an ocean of

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<v Speaker 2>dull red mystery and suggestion, sentinel shadows and watching darknesses

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<v Speaker 2>beyond its island of light and the stillness of desolation

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<v Speaker 2>brooded over it all.

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<v Speaker 1>All right, So, like a lot of these stories, you

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<v Speaker 1>get a little bit of a vague setup and then

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<v Speaker 1>they sort of dole out what's happening. Yeah, as it goes.

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<v Speaker 2>On pretty much what he's doing here, I would.

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<v Speaker 1>Say, Yeah, so he got this guy, he's going to

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<v Speaker 1>this castle now where the person before him that went

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<v Speaker 1>to sort of ghost investigate through him? Sounds like he

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<v Speaker 1>threw himself down the stairs and took his life right

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<v Speaker 1>with madness.

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<v Speaker 2>I think he. I get the impression, who's trying to

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<v Speaker 2>get the heck out of that room and died running

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<v Speaker 2>falling down the stairs.

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<v Speaker 3>Maybe okay, either one.

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<v Speaker 1>And then this whole thing was haunted though by a woman.

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<v Speaker 1>And do I gather that her husband used to like

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<v Speaker 1>kiddingly frighten her and that led to a death.

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<v Speaker 2>That's what I took it as.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, okay, not a nice guy.

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<v Speaker 3>Don't do that, guys, No, it wasn't jest.

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<v Speaker 2>I'm sure he regretted it pretty deeply afterward if he

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<v Speaker 2>was even half way decent. Right, are you taking over now?

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<v Speaker 1>Yes? It feels like a switcher roo me, I think

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<v Speaker 1>so too. All right, so this guy's in this room now,

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<v Speaker 1>finally he's all set to go.

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<v Speaker 3>Here we go.

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<v Speaker 1>I must confess some impalpable quality of that ancient room

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<v Speaker 1>disturbed me. I tried to fight the feeling down. I

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<v Speaker 1>resolved to make a systematic examination of the place, and

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<v Speaker 1>so by leaving nothing to the imagination, dispel the fanciful

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<v Speaker 1>suggestions of the obscurity before they obtained a hold upon me.

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<v Speaker 1>After satisfying myself of the fastening of the door, I

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<v Speaker 1>love that. I get the feeling this guy's like, check

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<v Speaker 1>to make sure it was locked, like eight times. I

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<v Speaker 1>began to walk around the room, peering round each article

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<v Speaker 1>of furniture, tucking up the balances of the bed and

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<v Speaker 1>opening its curtains wide. So basically, this guy's doing what

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<v Speaker 1>any kid would do.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he's trying to bring as much light as possible

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<v Speaker 2>in there and checking everything right.

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<v Speaker 1>Well, yeah, he's looking at He's like, I don't want

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<v Speaker 1>those sheets hanging down below, like what's under the bed.

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<v Speaker 1>It's likely to tuck that in. Let's lock the door

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<v Speaker 1>eight times. I like this guy. Yeah, okay. In one

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<v Speaker 1>place there was a distinct echo to my footsteps. The

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<v Speaker 1>noises I made seemed so little that they enhanced rather

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<v Speaker 1>than broke the silence of the place. I pulled up

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<v Speaker 1>the blinds and examined the fastenings of these several windows.

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<v Speaker 1>Attracted by the fall of a particle of dust, I

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<v Speaker 1>leaned forward and looked up the blackness of the wide chimney. Then,

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<v Speaker 1>trying to preserve my scientific attitude of mind, I walked

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<v Speaker 1>round and began tapping the oak paneling for any secret opening.

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<v Speaker 1>But I desisted before reaching the alcove. I saw my

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<v Speaker 1>face in a mirror white.

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<v Speaker 3>I mean, what color do you think he was?

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<v Speaker 2>I think he might have kale is a sheet kind

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<v Speaker 2>of thing. He looked like scared, maybe.

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<v Speaker 3>I think so.

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<v Speaker 1>There were two big mirrors in the room, each with

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<v Speaker 1>a pair of sconces bearing candles, and on the mantelshelf,

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<v Speaker 1>too were candles and china candlesticks. All these I lit

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<v Speaker 1>one after the other. The fire was laid an unexpected

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<v Speaker 1>consideration from the old housekeeper, and I lit it to

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<v Speaker 1>keep down any disposition to shiver, and when it was

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<v Speaker 1>burning well, I stood round with my back to it

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<v Speaker 1>and regarded the room again. I had pulled up a

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<v Speaker 1>chintz covered armchair and a table to form a kind

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<v Speaker 1>of barricade before me. On this lay my revolver ready

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<v Speaker 1>to hand. Oh that's right, he's strapped. That was pretty important.

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<v Speaker 1>My precise examination had done me a little good, but

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<v Speaker 1>I still found the remoter darkness of the place, in

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<v Speaker 1>its perfect stillness, too stimulating for the imagination. The echoing

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<v Speaker 1>of the stir and crackling of the fire was no

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<v Speaker 1>sort of comfort to me. The shadow in the alcove

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<v Speaker 1>at the end of the room began to display that

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<v Speaker 1>indefinable quality of a presence, that odd suggestion of a lurking,

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<v Speaker 1>living thing that comes so easily in silence and solitude.

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<v Speaker 1>And to reassure myself, I walked with a candle into

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<v Speaker 1>it and satisfied myself that there was nothing tangible there.

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<v Speaker 1>I stood that can upon the floor of the alcove

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<v Speaker 1>and left it in that position. By this time I

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<v Speaker 1>was in a state of considerable nervous tension, although to

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<v Speaker 1>my reason there was no adequate cause for my condition.

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<v Speaker 1>My mind, however, was perfectly clear. I postulated quite unreservedly

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<v Speaker 1>that nothing supernatural could happen, and to pass the time,

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<v Speaker 1>I began stringing some rhymes together in Goldsby fashioned concerning

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<v Speaker 1>the original legend.

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<v Speaker 3>Of the place.

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<v Speaker 1>A few I spoke aloud, but the echoes were not pleasant.

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<v Speaker 1>For some reason, I also abandoned after a time a

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<v Speaker 1>conversation with myself upon the impossibility of ghosts and haunting.

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<v Speaker 1>My mind reverted to the three old and distorted people downstairs,

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<v Speaker 1>and I tried to keep it upon that topic. Yeah,

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<v Speaker 1>so he's like doing the uh oh, I'm not scared

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<v Speaker 1>thing right, knocking himself out of.

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<v Speaker 2>It and Ingldsby apparently wrote legends and laws and stuff

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<v Speaker 2>as poems.

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<v Speaker 3>I guess, okay, that's a name.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah ready, yep, I am too. The somber reds and

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<v Speaker 2>grays of the room troubled me. Even with its seven candles,

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<v Speaker 2>the place was merely dim. The light in the alcove

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<v Speaker 2>flaring in a draft, and the fire flickering kept the

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<v Speaker 2>shadows and penumber perpetually shifting and stirring in a noiseless

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<v Speaker 2>flighty dance. Casting about. For a remedy, I recalled the

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<v Speaker 2>wax candles I had seen in the corridor, and with

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<v Speaker 2>a slight effort, carrying a candle and leaving the door open,

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<v Speaker 2>I walked out into the moonlight, and presently returned with

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<v Speaker 2>as many as ten these. I put in the various

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<v Speaker 2>knick knacks of china with which the room was sparsely

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<v Speaker 2>adorned and lit, and placed them where the shadows had

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<v Speaker 2>lain deepest, some on the floor, some in the window.

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<v Speaker 2>Recesses arranging and re arranging them, until at last my

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<v Speaker 2>seventeen candles were so placed that not an inch of

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<v Speaker 2>the room but had the direct light of at least

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<v Speaker 2>one of them. It occurred to me that when the

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<v Speaker 2>ghosts came, I could warn him not to trip over them.

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<v Speaker 2>Ha ha. The room was now quite brightly illuminated. There

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<v Speaker 2>was something very cheering and reassuring in these little silent,

0:23:06.200 --> 0:23:09.760
<v Speaker 2>streaming flames, and to notice their steady diminution of length

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<v Speaker 2>offered me an occupation and gave me a reassuring sense

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<v Speaker 2>of the passage of time.

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<v Speaker 1>Can you imagine what a like Now you go into

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<v Speaker 1>a scary room, you just turn on all those lights exactly.

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<v Speaker 1>This took twenty minutes to do it back then right.

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<v Speaker 2>And also he's like, so trying to make time pass

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<v Speaker 2>that he's staring at candles melting. Yeah, that's reassuring. That's

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<v Speaker 2>how it kind of up an arms.

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<v Speaker 3>He is. Yeah. Good times.

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<v Speaker 2>Even with that, however, the brooining expectation of the vigil

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<v Speaker 2>weighed heavily upon me. I stood watching the minute hand

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<v Speaker 2>of my watch creep toward midnight. Then something happened in

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<v Speaker 2>the alcove. I did not see the candle go out.

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<v Speaker 2>I simply turned and saw that the darkness was there,

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<v Speaker 2>as one might start and see the unexpected presence of

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<v Speaker 2>a stranger. The black shadow had sprung back to its place.

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<v Speaker 2>By Jove said, I allowed, recovering from my surprise that

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<v Speaker 2>drafts a strong one, and taking the match box from

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<v Speaker 2>the table, I walked across the room in a leisurely

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<v Speaker 2>manner to relight the corner.

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<v Speaker 3>Again.

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<v Speaker 2>I get the impression that was a forced leisurely manner,

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<v Speaker 2>don't you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, like, oh, I'm fine, everybody.

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<v Speaker 2>My first match would not strike, and as I succeeded

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<v Speaker 2>with the second, something seemed to blink on the wall

0:24:23.200 --> 0:24:26.159
<v Speaker 2>before me. I turned my head involuntarily and saw that

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<v Speaker 2>the two candles on the little table by the fireplace

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<v Speaker 2>were extinguished. I rose at once to my feet ahed,

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<v Speaker 2>I said, did I do that myself? In a flash

0:24:35.240 --> 0:24:39.040
<v Speaker 2>of absent mindedness, I walked back ReLit one, and as

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<v Speaker 2>I did so, I saw the candle in the right

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<v Speaker 2>scance of one of the mere's wink and go right out,

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<v Speaker 2>and almost immediately its companion followed it. The flames vanished,

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<v Speaker 2>as if the wick had been suddenly nipped between a

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<v Speaker 2>finger and thumb, leaving the wick neither glowing nor smoking,

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<v Speaker 2>but black. While I stood gaping, the candle at the

0:24:57.280 --> 0:24:59.440
<v Speaker 2>foot of the bed went out, and the shadows seemed

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<v Speaker 2>to take an stepped toward me.

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<v Speaker 1>For the record, I think that a little bit with

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<v Speaker 1>the candle going out but no smoke or no glow,

0:25:09.840 --> 0:25:12.320
<v Speaker 1>that's like, I think that's legit. The scariest line in

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<v Speaker 1>this thing.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was a really good little little thing, little

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<v Speaker 2>nice details detail, That's what I was after. This won't do,

0:25:21.760 --> 0:25:24.399
<v Speaker 2>said I in first one and then another candle on

0:25:24.440 --> 0:25:27.720
<v Speaker 2>the mantle shelf followed. What's up? I cried with a

0:25:27.840 --> 0:25:31.680
<v Speaker 2>queer high note. Sorry, what's up? I cried with a

0:25:31.760 --> 0:25:34.879
<v Speaker 2>queer high note, getting into my voice somehow at that

0:25:35.080 --> 0:25:37.520
<v Speaker 2>the candle on the corner of the wardrobe went out,

0:25:37.800 --> 0:25:40.280
<v Speaker 2>and the one I had reltt and the alcove followed

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<v Speaker 2>steady on. I said, those candles are wanted, speaking with

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<v Speaker 2>a half hysterical facetiousness, and scratching away to match, though

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<v Speaker 2>all the while for the mantle candlesticks, my hands trembled

0:25:52.280 --> 0:25:54.840
<v Speaker 2>so much that twice I missed the rough paper of

0:25:54.880 --> 0:25:58.760
<v Speaker 2>the matchbox. As the mantle emerged from darkness again, two

0:25:58.800 --> 0:26:01.639
<v Speaker 2>candles in the remoter and the room where eclipsed, but

0:26:01.720 --> 0:26:04.159
<v Speaker 2>with the same match. I also ReLit the larger mirror

0:26:04.160 --> 0:26:06.879
<v Speaker 2>candles and those on the floor near the doorway, so

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<v Speaker 2>that for a moment I seemed to gain on the extinctions.

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<v Speaker 2>But then in a noiseless volley, there vanished four lights

0:26:13.240 --> 0:26:15.960
<v Speaker 2>at once in different corners of the room, and I

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<v Speaker 2>struck another match in a quivering haste, and stood hesitating.

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<v Speaker 3>Whether to take it.

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<v Speaker 1>This is really scary. At this point, I can picture

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<v Speaker 1>this happening.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I mean, think about it. The whole reason he

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<v Speaker 2>went and gathered seventeen candles because he didn't want any

0:26:33.840 --> 0:26:36.600
<v Speaker 2>darkness in there, And now something, it seems as is

0:26:36.640 --> 0:26:39.760
<v Speaker 2>extinguishing these candles all over the room while he's trying

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<v Speaker 2>to get them re lit. I would be flipping out

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<v Speaker 2>at this point.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and that one little detail too, H wells good writer.

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<v Speaker 1>When he's trying to strike the match, but he's on

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<v Speaker 1>the smooth part of the box. That's good stuff.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, everybody's been there.

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<v Speaker 1>Uh switch through?

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I think switch roof for sure?

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<v Speaker 5>All right.

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<v Speaker 1>As I stood undecided, an invisible hand seemed to sweep

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<v Speaker 1>out the two candles on the table with a cry

0:27:07.600 --> 0:27:09.720
<v Speaker 1>of terror. I dashed at the alcove.

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<v Speaker 3>You can do the cry of tear, then into the.

0:27:19.560 --> 0:27:20.280
<v Speaker 2>Cry of terror.

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<v Speaker 1>Oh goodness, then into the corner, and then into the window,

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<v Speaker 1>relighting three as two more vanished by the fireplace, and

0:27:29.160 --> 0:27:32.280
<v Speaker 1>then perceiving a better way, I dropped matches on the

0:27:32.320 --> 0:27:34.960
<v Speaker 1>iron bound deed box in the corner and caught up

0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:38.040
<v Speaker 1>the bedroom candlestick. I don't what is he doing there.

0:27:38.080 --> 0:27:41.000
<v Speaker 2>I don't quite follow that he has he's basically forgotten

0:27:41.040 --> 0:27:43.560
<v Speaker 2>the matches. Now he's just gonna like use a candle.

0:27:43.280 --> 0:27:46.639
<v Speaker 1>Though, Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, that'ld move With this, I

0:27:46.680 --> 0:27:48.840
<v Speaker 1>avoided the delay of okay, I just should have kept

0:27:48.840 --> 0:27:52.800
<v Speaker 1>breathing with this. I avoided the delay of striking matches.

0:27:52.840 --> 0:27:55.679
<v Speaker 1>But for all that, the steady process of extinction went on,

0:27:56.320 --> 0:27:59.120
<v Speaker 1>and the shadows I feared and fought against returned and

0:27:59.200 --> 0:28:02.359
<v Speaker 1>crept in upon me. First a step gained on this

0:28:02.440 --> 0:28:05.120
<v Speaker 1>side of me, then on that. I was now almost

0:28:05.119 --> 0:28:07.919
<v Speaker 1>frantic with the horror of the coming darkness, and my

0:28:08.000 --> 0:28:12.479
<v Speaker 1>self possession deserted me. I leaped, panting from candle to cantle,

0:28:12.480 --> 0:28:17.320
<v Speaker 1>in a vain struggle against that remorseless advance. Nice I

0:28:17.359 --> 0:28:19.880
<v Speaker 1>bruised myself in the thigh against the table, I sent

0:28:19.920 --> 0:28:23.320
<v Speaker 1>a chair headlong. I stumbled and fell, and whisked the

0:28:23.359 --> 0:28:25.080
<v Speaker 1>cloth from the table in my fall.

0:28:25.680 --> 0:28:26.879
<v Speaker 3>It's got's like at three stitches.

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<v Speaker 1>My candle rolled away from me, and I snatched another

0:28:31.119 --> 0:28:33.879
<v Speaker 1>as I rose abruptly. This was blown out as I

0:28:33.920 --> 0:28:35.520
<v Speaker 1>swung it off the table by the wind of my

0:28:35.560 --> 0:28:39.600
<v Speaker 1>sudden movement, and immediately the two remaining candles followed. But

0:28:39.640 --> 0:28:42.240
<v Speaker 1>there was light still in the room, a red light

0:28:42.760 --> 0:28:46.280
<v Speaker 1>that streamed across the ceiling and staved off the shadows

0:28:46.320 --> 0:28:49.960
<v Speaker 1>from the fire. Of course, I could still thrust my

0:28:50.040 --> 0:28:53.120
<v Speaker 1>candle between the bars and relight it. I turned to

0:28:53.120 --> 0:28:55.560
<v Speaker 1>where the flames were still dancing between the glowing coals

0:28:55.560 --> 0:28:59.360
<v Speaker 1>and splashing red reflections upon the furniture, made two steps

0:28:59.400 --> 0:29:04.040
<v Speaker 1>toward the grate, and incontinent, incontinently, Yeah, did.

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<v Speaker 3>You poop themself?

0:29:04.800 --> 0:29:06.040
<v Speaker 2>Or peeded one of the two?

0:29:06.880 --> 0:29:07.240
<v Speaker 3>Okay?

0:29:07.640 --> 0:29:11.440
<v Speaker 1>And incontinently the flames dwindled and vanished, the glow vanished,

0:29:11.680 --> 0:29:14.920
<v Speaker 1>the reflections rushed together and disappeared. And as I thrust

0:29:15.000 --> 0:29:18.320
<v Speaker 1>the candle between the bars, darkness closed upon me, like

0:29:18.360 --> 0:29:20.640
<v Speaker 1>the shutting of an eye, wrapping around me in a

0:29:20.640 --> 0:29:25.000
<v Speaker 1>stifling embrace, sealed my vision and crushed the last vestiges

0:29:25.040 --> 0:29:28.320
<v Speaker 1>of self possession from my brain. And it was not

0:29:28.400 --> 0:29:33.320
<v Speaker 1>only palpable darkness, but intolerable terror. The candle fell from

0:29:33.320 --> 0:29:35.600
<v Speaker 1>my hands. I flung out my arms in a vain

0:29:35.680 --> 0:29:38.640
<v Speaker 1>effort to thrust that ponderous blackness away from me, and,

0:29:38.760 --> 0:29:44.760
<v Speaker 1>lifting up my voice, screamed with all of my might, once, twice, thrice.

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<v Speaker 6>Ah ah ah.

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<v Speaker 1>Then I think I must have staggered to my feet.

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<v Speaker 1>I know, I thought suddenly of the moonlit corridor, and

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<v Speaker 1>with my my head bowed on my arms over my face,

0:30:02.760 --> 0:30:05.160
<v Speaker 1>made a stumbling run for the door. But I had

0:30:05.200 --> 0:30:07.480
<v Speaker 1>forgotten the exact position of the door, and I struck

0:30:07.520 --> 0:30:11.240
<v Speaker 1>myself heavily against the corner of the bed. I staggered back,

0:30:11.400 --> 0:30:15.000
<v Speaker 1>turned and was either struck or struck myself against some

0:30:15.040 --> 0:30:19.160
<v Speaker 1>other bulky furnishing. I have a vague memory of battering

0:30:19.200 --> 0:30:21.880
<v Speaker 1>myself thus to and fro in the darkness of a

0:30:21.920 --> 0:30:24.520
<v Speaker 1>heavy blow at last up on my forehead, of a

0:30:24.560 --> 0:30:28.080
<v Speaker 1>horrible sensation of falling that lasted an age of my

0:30:28.240 --> 0:30:30.800
<v Speaker 1>last frantic effort to keep my footing.

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<v Speaker 3>And then I remember no more.

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<v Speaker 1>Boy, that's some good folly work right there, my friend,

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<v Speaker 1>Thank you.

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<v Speaker 2>I've been I would say I was practicing, but it

0:30:43.680 --> 0:30:44.680
<v Speaker 2>is all to soft.

0:30:44.480 --> 0:30:46.719
<v Speaker 3>The cuff, all right.

0:30:46.800 --> 0:30:49.479
<v Speaker 1>So this guy a key detail there is like I

0:30:49.600 --> 0:30:52.920
<v Speaker 1>was either struck myself or was struck and like that's

0:30:52.920 --> 0:30:54.520
<v Speaker 1>a key detail, bro for sure.

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<v Speaker 2>But for all intents and purposes, it does not matter

0:30:57.360 --> 0:31:00.560
<v Speaker 2>at this point because he's been knocked out. And frankly,

0:31:00.600 --> 0:31:02.400
<v Speaker 2>I think we have a little bit of detail about

0:31:02.400 --> 0:31:05.840
<v Speaker 2>what happened to that earl, that count who fell headlong

0:31:05.880 --> 0:31:06.440
<v Speaker 2>out of the door.

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<v Speaker 1>Right yeah, I think I see where this is headed.

0:31:09.240 --> 0:31:13.000
<v Speaker 3>Ready, I'm taking it home, Take it home, baby.

0:31:14.920 --> 0:31:18.640
<v Speaker 2>I opened my eyes in daylight. My head was roughly bandaged,

0:31:18.920 --> 0:31:21.800
<v Speaker 2>and the man with the withered hand was watching my face.

0:31:22.440 --> 0:31:25.120
<v Speaker 2>I looked about me, trying to remember what had happened,

0:31:25.400 --> 0:31:28.560
<v Speaker 2>and for a space I could not recollect. I rolled

0:31:28.560 --> 0:31:30.880
<v Speaker 2>my eyes into the corner and saw the old woman,

0:31:31.200 --> 0:31:35.000
<v Speaker 2>no longer abstracted, no longer terrible, pouring out some drops

0:31:35.040 --> 0:31:38.160
<v Speaker 2>of medicine from a little blue file into a glass.

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<v Speaker 2>Where am I? I said, I seem to remember you,

0:31:42.400 --> 0:31:46.120
<v Speaker 2>and yet I cannot remember who you are. They told

0:31:46.160 --> 0:31:48.280
<v Speaker 2>me then, And I heard of the haunted room as

0:31:48.320 --> 0:31:52.400
<v Speaker 2>one hears a tale. Let's see, I think this is

0:31:52.440 --> 0:31:54.840
<v Speaker 2>the old man with the withered arm. Yeah, we found

0:31:54.840 --> 0:31:57.120
<v Speaker 2>you at dawn, said he. And there was blood on

0:31:57.200 --> 0:32:00.000
<v Speaker 2>your forehead and lips. I wondered that I had ever

0:32:00.120 --> 0:32:03.320
<v Speaker 2>disliked him. The three of them in the daylight seemed commonplace,

0:32:03.320 --> 0:32:05.800
<v Speaker 2>old folk enough. The man with the green shade had

0:32:05.800 --> 0:32:08.600
<v Speaker 2>his head been as one who sleeps. It was very

0:32:08.640 --> 0:32:12.520
<v Speaker 2>slowly I recovered the memory of my experience. You believe now,

0:32:12.760 --> 0:32:14.600
<v Speaker 2>said the old man with the withered hand, that the

0:32:14.720 --> 0:32:17.640
<v Speaker 2>room is haunted. He spoke no longer as one who

0:32:17.680 --> 0:32:23.520
<v Speaker 2>greets an intruder, but is one who condoles with the friend. Yes,

0:32:23.880 --> 0:32:27.680
<v Speaker 2>said I, the room is haunted, and you have seen it,

0:32:27.760 --> 0:32:30.160
<v Speaker 2>and we who have been here all alives, have never

0:32:30.200 --> 0:32:33.280
<v Speaker 2>set eyes upon it, because we have never dared TuS.

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<v Speaker 2>Is it truly the old earl who no, said I

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<v Speaker 2>it is not, I told you show, said the old

0:32:40.400 --> 0:32:41.760
<v Speaker 2>lady with the glass in her hand.

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<v Speaker 1>It is his poor young countess who is fright.

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<v Speaker 2>It is not, I said. There is neither ghost of

0:32:48.640 --> 0:32:51.280
<v Speaker 2>earl nor ghost of countess in that room. There is

0:32:51.320 --> 0:32:56.520
<v Speaker 2>no ghost there at all, but worse, far worse, something impalpable.

0:32:57.640 --> 0:33:02.400
<v Speaker 3>Well, not bad, Yeah, the.

0:33:02.280 --> 0:33:05.480
<v Speaker 2>Worst of all the things that haunt poor mortal men,

0:33:05.600 --> 0:33:11.080
<v Speaker 2>said I. And that is in all its nakedness, fear, fear.

0:33:11.320 --> 0:33:13.680
<v Speaker 2>It will not have light nor sound, that will not

0:33:13.880 --> 0:33:17.680
<v Speaker 2>bear with reason, that deafens and darkens and overwhelms. It

0:33:17.800 --> 0:33:20.240
<v Speaker 2>followed me through the corridor. It fought against me. In

0:33:20.320 --> 0:33:24.400
<v Speaker 2>the room. I stopped abruptly. There was an interval of silence.

0:33:25.480 --> 0:33:28.600
<v Speaker 2>My hand went up to my bandages. The candles went out,

0:33:28.640 --> 0:33:32.640
<v Speaker 2>one after another, and I fled. Then the man with

0:33:32.680 --> 0:33:36.160
<v Speaker 2>the shade lifted his face sideways to see me and spoke,

0:33:37.720 --> 0:33:38.960
<v Speaker 2>that is it, said he.

0:33:40.280 --> 0:33:43.280
<v Speaker 3>I knew that was yet a power of darkness? Is

0:33:43.320 --> 0:33:44.320
<v Speaker 3>he Sean Connery.

0:33:44.960 --> 0:33:47.160
<v Speaker 2>Sean Conry and James Earl Jones had a baby. And

0:33:47.200 --> 0:33:47.840
<v Speaker 2>this guy's it.

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<v Speaker 1>A power of darkness to put such a curse upon

0:33:52.080 --> 0:33:55.640
<v Speaker 1>a home. It looks they're always You can feel it,

0:33:55.680 --> 0:33:58.440
<v Speaker 1>even in the daytime, even of a bright summer's day,

0:33:58.800 --> 0:34:03.200
<v Speaker 1>and the hangings curtains keeping behind you. However you face

0:34:03.280 --> 0:34:06.200
<v Speaker 1>about in the dusk, it creeps in the corridor and

0:34:06.280 --> 0:34:09.920
<v Speaker 1>follows you so that you dare not turn. It is

0:34:10.000 --> 0:34:13.960
<v Speaker 1>even as you say, fear itself is in that room,

0:34:14.760 --> 0:34:19.640
<v Speaker 1>black fear, and there it will be so long is

0:34:19.719 --> 0:34:29.760
<v Speaker 1>this house of sin indoors? Wowsy wows or wowser?

0:34:29.880 --> 0:34:33.440
<v Speaker 2>You really finished that in grand style. Man, that was great.

0:34:33.200 --> 0:34:35.160
<v Speaker 3>Stuff, Thanks dude, Man HG.

0:34:35.320 --> 0:34:38.560
<v Speaker 1>Wells. That is no wonder he was a popular writer.

0:34:38.640 --> 0:34:39.240
<v Speaker 1>That's good stuff.

0:34:39.280 --> 0:34:42.840
<v Speaker 2>Still is popular. We just brought him back, buddy. Yeah,

0:34:43.560 --> 0:34:46.359
<v Speaker 2>so I guess we should take a message break.

0:34:46.440 --> 0:34:49.879
<v Speaker 3>Huh No, No, not for how to We Eat?

0:34:49.920 --> 0:34:51.799
<v Speaker 2>That never gets old for me. I think I say

0:34:51.840 --> 0:34:55.880
<v Speaker 2>that every year. Yeah, I love it, so, yeah, I

0:34:55.880 --> 0:34:59.480
<v Speaker 2>guess then we'll move on to the next one. This

0:34:59.600 --> 0:35:00.399
<v Speaker 2>is your right.

0:35:01.200 --> 0:35:04.040
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. This is called the Misanthrope by J. D. Beresford.

0:35:05.160 --> 0:35:09.120
<v Speaker 1>And you'll see what's going on here? Got to do

0:35:09.200 --> 0:35:11.400
<v Speaker 1>with a lot of these stories are the same. I

0:35:11.440 --> 0:35:15.800
<v Speaker 1>feel like, yeah, horror writing back then, these short stories

0:35:15.920 --> 0:35:20.160
<v Speaker 1>often had to do with people investigating some creepy place

0:35:20.200 --> 0:35:22.800
<v Speaker 1>where something creepy had happened, or maybe that's all horror.

0:35:22.600 --> 0:35:24.480
<v Speaker 2>Movie, and they were usually approaching it from like a

0:35:24.600 --> 0:35:27.759
<v Speaker 2>rational mind, and they end up like being proven that

0:35:27.760 --> 0:35:31.680
<v Speaker 2>there's something worse there, and yeah, it's good stuff.

0:35:31.719 --> 0:35:32.640
<v Speaker 3>All right, it works.

0:35:33.800 --> 0:35:35.160
<v Speaker 1>So what am I doing again?

0:35:35.280 --> 0:35:38.200
<v Speaker 2>I'm the visitor to the island and the boatman and

0:35:38.239 --> 0:35:38.640
<v Speaker 2>you're the.

0:35:38.560 --> 0:35:41.399
<v Speaker 3>Herm Okay, that's right, right? Why do we bother working

0:35:41.440 --> 0:35:41.759
<v Speaker 3>this out?

0:35:41.920 --> 0:35:42.440
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.

0:35:43.239 --> 0:35:45.680
<v Speaker 3>I always forget all right, here we go.

0:35:45.760 --> 0:35:50.640
<v Speaker 1>Everybody, pour up a spoopy drink, blow out the candles,

0:35:51.160 --> 0:35:55.960
<v Speaker 1>relight them, blow them out again, and listen to the

0:35:56.000 --> 0:35:57.360
<v Speaker 1>Misanthrope by J. D.

0:35:57.480 --> 0:36:04.640
<v Speaker 3>Beresford. Take it away, Josh, did you say spoopy? Very nice?

0:36:09.360 --> 0:36:11.799
<v Speaker 2>Since I have returned from the rock and discussed the

0:36:11.840 --> 0:36:14.080
<v Speaker 2>story in all its bearings, I've begun to wonder if

0:36:14.120 --> 0:36:16.880
<v Speaker 2>the man made a fool of me. In the deeps

0:36:16.880 --> 0:36:20.839
<v Speaker 2>of my consciousness, I feel that he did not. Nevertheless,

0:36:21.080 --> 0:36:23.319
<v Speaker 2>I cannot resist the effect of all the laughter that

0:36:23.360 --> 0:36:26.600
<v Speaker 2>has been evoked by my narrative. Here on the mainland,

0:36:26.719 --> 0:36:31.600
<v Speaker 2>the whole thing seems unlikely, grotesque, foolish. On the rock,

0:36:31.840 --> 0:36:36.560
<v Speaker 2>the man's confession carried absolute conviction. The setting is everything,

0:36:37.000 --> 0:36:40.319
<v Speaker 2>and I am perhaps thankful that my present circumstances are

0:36:40.360 --> 0:36:44.120
<v Speaker 2>so beautifully conducive to sanity. No one appreciates the mystery

0:36:44.120 --> 0:36:46.360
<v Speaker 2>of life more than I do. But when the mystery

0:36:46.360 --> 0:36:48.880
<v Speaker 2>involves such a doubt of one's self, I find it

0:36:48.920 --> 0:36:52.680
<v Speaker 2>pleasanter to forget. Naturally, I do not want to believe

0:36:52.719 --> 0:36:55.239
<v Speaker 2>the story. If I did, I should know myself to

0:36:55.239 --> 0:36:58.000
<v Speaker 2>be some kind of human horror. And the terror of

0:36:58.040 --> 0:36:59.759
<v Speaker 2>it all lies in the fact that I may never

0:36:59.880 --> 0:37:04.400
<v Speaker 2>know precisely what kind. Before I went, we had eliminated

0:37:04.400 --> 0:37:07.200
<v Speaker 2>the facile and banal explanation that the man was mad,

0:37:07.600 --> 0:37:11.600
<v Speaker 2>and had fallen back upon two inevitable alternatives, crime and

0:37:11.640 --> 0:37:15.200
<v Speaker 2>disappointed love. We were human and romantic, and we tried

0:37:15.200 --> 0:37:18.520
<v Speaker 2>desperately hard not to be too obvious. That is the

0:37:18.560 --> 0:37:23.240
<v Speaker 2>most inscrutable paragraph I've ever read in my entire life. Yeah, right,

0:37:24.080 --> 0:37:26.520
<v Speaker 2>Once before a man had made the same attempt, and

0:37:26.600 --> 0:37:28.440
<v Speaker 2>had built or tried to build a house on the

0:37:28.440 --> 0:37:31.560
<v Speaker 2>Golden Rock, but he had been defeated within a fortnight,

0:37:31.920 --> 0:37:33.759
<v Speaker 2>and what was left of his building was taken off

0:37:33.800 --> 0:37:36.719
<v Speaker 2>the island and turned into a tin church. Is there

0:37:36.760 --> 0:37:39.719
<v Speaker 2>still We all went to trevone and ruminated over and

0:37:39.800 --> 0:37:42.040
<v Speaker 2>round it, perhaps with some faint hope that one of

0:37:42.120 --> 0:37:46.120
<v Speaker 2>us might, all unknowing, have the abilities of a psychometrist.

0:37:47.000 --> 0:37:48.759
<v Speaker 2>So I think what he's saying, there's something on this

0:37:48.880 --> 0:37:51.360
<v Speaker 2>island that he's very interested in. There's a person that

0:37:51.440 --> 0:37:55.360
<v Speaker 2>he's trying to figure out what their deal is, and

0:37:55.400 --> 0:37:57.480
<v Speaker 2>they're so into it that he and his group of

0:37:57.480 --> 0:38:00.360
<v Speaker 2>friends went to visit this tin church that had won's

0:38:00.560 --> 0:38:04.280
<v Speaker 2>been a house on this island for like two weeks,

0:38:04.360 --> 0:38:07.280
<v Speaker 2>just in an effort to glean some sort of information,

0:38:07.360 --> 0:38:09.320
<v Speaker 2>even psychic information if possible.

0:38:10.200 --> 0:38:14.719
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, and he's recounting this, So he's recounting something that

0:38:14.760 --> 0:38:17.640
<v Speaker 1>has already happened to him that he's very sort of

0:38:17.640 --> 0:38:18.399
<v Speaker 1>embarrassed about.

0:38:18.640 --> 0:38:21.920
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And we both read this already, and I can

0:38:22.120 --> 0:38:25.239
<v Speaker 2>promise you everybody, it gets more comprehensible as things go on.

0:38:25.840 --> 0:38:27.719
<v Speaker 2>As a matter of fact, we should probably reread this

0:38:28.360 --> 0:38:31.279
<v Speaker 2>beginning at the answer and be like, oh, okay, I

0:38:31.360 --> 0:38:31.839
<v Speaker 2>get it.

0:38:32.680 --> 0:38:34.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, it kind of makes sense. It's sort of like

0:38:34.680 --> 0:38:36.560
<v Speaker 1>the movie that picks up with the guy that all

0:38:36.560 --> 0:38:38.920
<v Speaker 1>the stuff has already happened, and then he's like, and

0:38:39.320 --> 0:38:40.240
<v Speaker 1>here's the story.

0:38:40.400 --> 0:38:43.080
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but at the beginning of Sunset Boulevard, no one's like,

0:38:43.200 --> 0:38:49.040
<v Speaker 2>what are you talking about? This story doesn't fall into

0:38:49.040 --> 0:38:57.799
<v Speaker 2>the same category. Okay, here I go. Nothing came of

0:38:57.840 --> 0:38:59.960
<v Speaker 2>that visit. This is the visit to that ten chirt,

0:39:00.560 --> 0:39:03.600
<v Speaker 2>but a slight intensification of those theories that were already

0:39:03.640 --> 0:39:07.120
<v Speaker 2>becoming a little stale. We compared the early failure of

0:39:07.160 --> 0:39:10.080
<v Speaker 2>thirty years ago, the attempt that was baffled with the

0:39:10.080 --> 0:39:13.319
<v Speaker 2>present success. For this new misanthrope had lived on the

0:39:13.360 --> 0:39:17.239
<v Speaker 2>gullen through the whole winter and still lived. Indeed, the

0:39:17.239 --> 0:39:19.640
<v Speaker 2>fact of his presence on the awful lump of rock

0:39:19.960 --> 0:39:22.640
<v Speaker 2>was now accepted by the country people. To them, he

0:39:22.760 --> 0:39:25.560
<v Speaker 2>was scarcely a shade madder than the other visitors. That

0:39:25.680 --> 0:39:28.719
<v Speaker 2>renunerative recurrent host that this year broke their journey to

0:39:28.760 --> 0:39:31.480
<v Speaker 2>Bedrethon in order to stand on the Trevone Beach and

0:39:31.520 --> 0:39:34.200
<v Speaker 2>stare foolishly at just the visible hut that struck like

0:39:34.239 --> 0:39:37.440
<v Speaker 2>a cubicle gull on the landward face of that humped,

0:39:37.640 --> 0:39:43.680
<v Speaker 2>desolate island. The best I can tell is there's somebody

0:39:43.719 --> 0:39:47.360
<v Speaker 2>who lives there now, this hermit you on this island,

0:39:48.280 --> 0:39:50.840
<v Speaker 2>and the country people who live on the mainland just

0:39:50.960 --> 0:39:53.759
<v Speaker 2>off of the island are like whatever. They don't think

0:39:53.800 --> 0:39:56.200
<v Speaker 2>too much of him, but they can see his hut

0:39:57.000 --> 0:39:59.480
<v Speaker 2>from their house on the mainland.

0:39:59.760 --> 0:40:01.239
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, that sounds about right.

0:40:01.920 --> 0:40:03.480
<v Speaker 2>You want to take over. You want me to keep

0:40:03.520 --> 0:40:06.040
<v Speaker 2>reading a jumble of words that barely makes sense.

0:40:07.719 --> 0:40:08.719
<v Speaker 3>I'll go okay, all right.

0:40:12.120 --> 0:40:14.520
<v Speaker 1>We all did that, stared at nothing in particular, and

0:40:14.560 --> 0:40:17.279
<v Speaker 1>meditated enormously, but in what I felt at the time

0:40:17.400 --> 0:40:19.920
<v Speaker 1>was a wild spirit of adventure. I went out one

0:40:20.000 --> 0:40:21.919
<v Speaker 1>night to the point of gun ver Head and saw

0:40:21.960 --> 0:40:24.759
<v Speaker 1>an actual light within that distant hut, a patch of

0:40:24.840 --> 0:40:27.000
<v Speaker 1>golden lichen on the mother parasite.

0:40:27.080 --> 0:40:27.640
<v Speaker 2>I like that.

0:40:28.360 --> 0:40:31.840
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, great line, some aspect of humanity I found in

0:40:31.880 --> 0:40:35.719
<v Speaker 1>that light. It was that finally decided me that in

0:40:35.719 --> 0:40:39.840
<v Speaker 1>some quality of sympathy, perhaps with the hermit, mad criminal

0:40:40.040 --> 0:40:44.359
<v Speaker 1>or lovelorn who had found sanctuary from the pestilent touch

0:40:44.360 --> 0:40:47.640
<v Speaker 1>of the encroaching crowd. It was, in fact a wildish night,

0:40:48.040 --> 0:40:50.480
<v Speaker 1>and I stayed until the little yellow speck went out,

0:40:50.800 --> 0:40:52.400
<v Speaker 1>and all I could see through the murk was an

0:40:52.400 --> 0:40:55.400
<v Speaker 1>occasional canopy of curving spray when the elbow of the

0:40:55.440 --> 0:40:58.520
<v Speaker 1>trebon light touched a bare corner of that black Gulland

0:40:59.320 --> 0:41:01.880
<v Speaker 1>so this guy's just watching this island as well, But

0:41:01.960 --> 0:41:03.360
<v Speaker 1>he feels a little empathy, maybe.

0:41:03.200 --> 0:41:04.279
<v Speaker 2>Ye toward this guy sounds like it.

0:41:05.680 --> 0:41:08.000
<v Speaker 1>The making of a decision was no difficult matter. But

0:41:08.040 --> 0:41:10.480
<v Speaker 1>while I waited for the necessary calm that would permit

0:41:10.760 --> 0:41:13.959
<v Speaker 1>the occasional boat to land provisions on the island two

0:41:14.000 --> 0:41:17.000
<v Speaker 1>miles out from the mainland, I suffered qualms of doubt

0:41:17.000 --> 0:41:19.600
<v Speaker 1>and nervousness. And I suffered them alone, for I had

0:41:19.600 --> 0:41:22.279
<v Speaker 1>determined that no hint of my adventure should be given

0:41:22.320 --> 0:41:25.280
<v Speaker 1>to anyone of our party until the voyage had been made.

0:41:25.320 --> 0:41:27.880
<v Speaker 1>They might think that I had gone fishing, an excuse

0:41:27.960 --> 0:41:30.520
<v Speaker 1>which had all the air probability given to it by

0:41:30.520 --> 0:41:33.080
<v Speaker 1>the coming of the boatmen to say that the tide

0:41:33.080 --> 0:41:36.440
<v Speaker 1>and wind would serve that morning. I had warned and

0:41:36.719 --> 0:41:39.640
<v Speaker 1>bribed him to give no clue to my friends of

0:41:39.680 --> 0:41:43.239
<v Speaker 1>the goal of my proposed excursion. So this guy's going

0:41:43.280 --> 0:41:44.759
<v Speaker 1>to go out there on a boat, But He's like,

0:41:44.880 --> 0:41:45.560
<v Speaker 1>don't tell.

0:41:45.360 --> 0:41:48.760
<v Speaker 3>Anyone I'm doing ditching his friends. Ditching his friends.

0:41:49.239 --> 0:41:52.160
<v Speaker 1>My nervousness suffered no decrease. As we approached the rock

0:41:52.239 --> 0:41:56.040
<v Speaker 1>and saw the authentic figure of its single inhabitant awaiting

0:41:56.040 --> 0:41:59.080
<v Speaker 1>our arrival. I had some consolation in the thought that

0:41:59.120 --> 0:42:01.279
<v Speaker 1>he would be in some way I'm prepared by the

0:42:01.320 --> 0:42:04.840
<v Speaker 1>sight of our surprisingly passengered boat. But my mind shuddered

0:42:04.840 --> 0:42:07.840
<v Speaker 1>at the necessity for using some conventional form of address.

0:42:08.200 --> 0:42:11.040
<v Speaker 1>If I would make at once my introduction and excuse,

0:42:11.719 --> 0:42:15.600
<v Speaker 1>the civilized opening was so helplessly incapable of expressing my sympathy,

0:42:15.880 --> 0:42:19.360
<v Speaker 1>presenting instead so unmistakably it seemed to me the single

0:42:19.400 --> 0:42:23.400
<v Speaker 1>solution of common curiosity. I wondered that he had not,

0:42:23.760 --> 0:42:26.200
<v Speaker 1>as the boatman so clearly assured me, was the case

0:42:26.719 --> 0:42:30.960
<v Speaker 1>had other prying visitors before me. My self consciousness increased

0:42:31.000 --> 0:42:33.560
<v Speaker 1>as we came nearer to the single opening among the

0:42:33.600 --> 0:42:37.280
<v Speaker 1>spiked rocks that served as a miniature harbor at half tide.

0:42:37.320 --> 0:42:39.000
<v Speaker 1>I felt that I was being watched by the man

0:42:39.040 --> 0:42:42.040
<v Speaker 1>who now stood awaiting us at water's edge, and suddenly

0:42:42.239 --> 0:42:45.120
<v Speaker 1>my spirit broke. I decided that I could not force

0:42:45.160 --> 0:42:47.520
<v Speaker 1>myself upon him that I would remain in the boat

0:42:47.560 --> 0:42:49.719
<v Speaker 1>while its cargo was delivered, and then return with a

0:42:49.760 --> 0:42:52.880
<v Speaker 1>boatman to Trevone. So resolute was I in this plan

0:42:52.960 --> 0:42:55.360
<v Speaker 1>that when we had pulled into the tiny landing space,

0:42:55.680 --> 0:42:58.400
<v Speaker 1>I kept my gaze steadfastly averted from the man I

0:42:58.440 --> 0:43:01.200
<v Speaker 1>had come to see, and stay there solemnly out at

0:43:01.200 --> 0:43:04.640
<v Speaker 1>the humped back of trebone, now seen in an entirely

0:43:04.719 --> 0:43:09.359
<v Speaker 1>new aspect. All right, So this guy's having second thoughts now,

0:43:09.400 --> 0:43:11.840
<v Speaker 1>He's like, I'm already out here, and maybe I should

0:43:11.880 --> 0:43:12.359
<v Speaker 1>just go back.

0:43:12.760 --> 0:43:15.160
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe I shouldn't force myself on a hermit who

0:43:15.200 --> 0:43:17.040
<v Speaker 2>I want to find out. What's your deal man?

0:43:17.239 --> 0:43:22.120
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, exactly, Why don't you take over? Because there's a

0:43:22.120 --> 0:43:23.360
<v Speaker 1>lot of me stuff.

0:43:23.719 --> 0:43:27.560
<v Speaker 2>Okay. The sound of the hermit's voice startled me from

0:43:27.560 --> 0:43:29.400
<v Speaker 2>a perfectly genuine abstraction.

0:43:30.560 --> 0:43:32.359
<v Speaker 3>Fairly decent weather today.

0:43:32.480 --> 0:43:36.080
<v Speaker 2>He remarked with, I thought a touch of nervousness he had,

0:43:36.120 --> 0:43:38.960
<v Speaker 2>I remembered addressed the same remark to the boatmen, who

0:43:39.040 --> 0:43:41.880
<v Speaker 2>were now conveying their cargo up to the hut. I

0:43:41.920 --> 0:43:44.840
<v Speaker 2>looked up and meta's stare. He was, indeed regarding me

0:43:45.040 --> 0:43:47.920
<v Speaker 2>with a curious effect of concentration, as if he were

0:43:47.920 --> 0:43:52.000
<v Speaker 2>eager to know every detail of my expression. Jolly, I

0:43:52.080 --> 0:43:54.960
<v Speaker 2>replied him pretty basically. The last day or two kept

0:43:55.000 --> 0:43:56.080
<v Speaker 2>her rather short, hasn't it.

0:43:56.360 --> 0:43:59.960
<v Speaker 1>I make allowances for that, he said, keep a resume

0:44:00.080 --> 0:44:03.680
<v Speaker 1>of you know, are you I staying over there?

0:44:04.400 --> 0:44:08.600
<v Speaker 2>He nodded towards the bay for a well, weak or two,

0:44:08.800 --> 0:44:11.680
<v Speaker 2>I told him, as we began to discuss the country

0:44:11.719 --> 0:44:14.600
<v Speaker 2>around Harlan with the eagerness of two strangers who find

0:44:14.600 --> 0:44:16.360
<v Speaker 2>a common topic at a dull reception.

0:44:17.360 --> 0:44:20.239
<v Speaker 3>Never been on the gullen before, I suppose.

0:44:20.440 --> 0:44:23.200
<v Speaker 2>He ventured at last, when the boatmen had discharged their

0:44:23.239 --> 0:44:28.319
<v Speaker 2>load and were evidently ready to be off. No, no, no, no,

0:44:28.560 --> 0:44:32.040
<v Speaker 2>I haven't, I said, and hesitated. I felt the invitation

0:44:32.200 --> 0:44:35.600
<v Speaker 2>must come from him. He boggled over it by saying.

0:44:35.840 --> 0:44:38.919
<v Speaker 1>Dashed, awkward place to get to and nothing to see.

0:44:38.920 --> 0:44:41.480
<v Speaker 1>Of course, I don't know if you're at all keen

0:44:41.560 --> 0:44:42.320
<v Speaker 1>on fishing.

0:44:43.960 --> 0:44:47.480
<v Speaker 2>Well, Rather, I said, with enthusiasm.

0:44:47.400 --> 0:44:49.520
<v Speaker 1>There'sh deep water on the other side of the rock.

0:44:50.000 --> 0:44:53.080
<v Speaker 1>He went on, in the right weather you get splendid

0:44:53.120 --> 0:44:53.759
<v Speaker 1>bass there.

0:44:55.320 --> 0:44:57.480
<v Speaker 2>He stopped, and then added it will.

0:44:57.360 --> 0:45:00.479
<v Speaker 1>Be absolutely top zero for him this after noon.

0:45:02.200 --> 0:45:08.000
<v Speaker 2>Well, perhaps I could come back, I began, but the

0:45:08.000 --> 0:45:09.520
<v Speaker 2>boatman interrupted me at once.

0:45:10.680 --> 0:45:14.040
<v Speaker 1>Is this Josh Clark that's visiting this guy? It sounds

0:45:14.120 --> 0:45:16.400
<v Speaker 1>very much like this something you would do.

0:45:18.560 --> 0:45:22.880
<v Speaker 2>All right, you can come back tomorrow, sure enough, he said,

0:45:23.360 --> 0:45:25.800
<v Speaker 2>tide only serves once every twelve hours.

0:45:27.400 --> 0:45:29.480
<v Speaker 3>If you'd care to stay now.

0:45:31.400 --> 0:45:36.759
<v Speaker 2>Uh, thanks, that's awfully good of you. I should like

0:45:36.840 --> 0:45:40.319
<v Speaker 2>to of all things, I said, I stayed on the clear,

0:45:40.400 --> 0:45:43.280
<v Speaker 2>understanding that the boatmen were to fetch me the next morning.

0:45:43.880 --> 0:45:46.359
<v Speaker 2>At first, there was really very little that seemed in

0:45:46.400 --> 0:45:48.640
<v Speaker 2>any way strange about the man on the gully.

0:45:49.560 --> 0:45:52.839
<v Speaker 1>I could picture what heaven here, and he's like, yeah, yeah,

0:45:52.880 --> 0:45:54.520
<v Speaker 1>I'll stay. Then he turns around, he's like, you'll get

0:45:54.560 --> 0:45:54.920
<v Speaker 1>me tomorrow.

0:45:55.000 --> 0:45:55.160
<v Speaker 3>Right.

0:45:55.560 --> 0:45:57.400
<v Speaker 1>He's like, yeah, yeah, this will be great. We'll do

0:45:57.520 --> 0:45:59.759
<v Speaker 1>some fishing, like you guys are coming right in the morning, right.

0:46:01.520 --> 0:46:05.439
<v Speaker 2>They're like sure, sure, we'll be right back. His name,

0:46:05.480 --> 0:46:08.640
<v Speaker 2>he told me, was William Copley, but it appeared that

0:46:08.680 --> 0:46:11.400
<v Speaker 2>he was no relation to the Copleys I knew, And

0:46:11.480 --> 0:46:13.399
<v Speaker 2>if he had shaved, he would have looked a very

0:46:13.719 --> 0:46:17.120
<v Speaker 2>ordinary type of englishman roughing it on a holiday. His

0:46:17.280 --> 0:46:21.120
<v Speaker 2>age I judged to be between thirty and forty. Only

0:46:21.200 --> 0:46:23.440
<v Speaker 2>two things about him struck me as a little queer

0:46:23.520 --> 0:46:28.040
<v Speaker 2>during our very successful afternoons fishing. The first was that intense,

0:46:28.080 --> 0:46:31.120
<v Speaker 2>appraising stare of his, as if he tried to fathom

0:46:31.160 --> 0:46:34.640
<v Speaker 2>the very depths of one's being. The second was an

0:46:34.719 --> 0:46:39.160
<v Speaker 2>inexplicable devotion to one particular form of ceremony. As our

0:46:39.200 --> 0:46:42.960
<v Speaker 2>intimacy grew, he dropped the ordinary formal politeness of a host.

0:46:43.360 --> 0:46:46.280
<v Speaker 2>But he insisted always on one observance that I supposed

0:46:46.320 --> 0:46:50.000
<v Speaker 2>at first to be the merely conventional business of giving precedence.

0:46:50.880 --> 0:46:53.480
<v Speaker 2>Nothing would induce him to go in front of me.

0:46:54.200 --> 0:46:56.560
<v Speaker 2>He sent me ahead, even as we explored the little

0:46:56.600 --> 0:46:59.719
<v Speaker 2>peerlius of his rock. The only level square yard on

0:46:59.719 --> 0:47:02.440
<v Speaker 2>the whole island was in the floor of the hut.

0:47:02.920 --> 0:47:06.200
<v Speaker 2>But presently I noticed that this peculiarity went still further,

0:47:06.719 --> 0:47:08.600
<v Speaker 2>and that he would not turn his back on me

0:47:08.719 --> 0:47:13.000
<v Speaker 2>for a single moment. This is weird, This is a

0:47:13.239 --> 0:47:16.520
<v Speaker 2>this is yeah, it is weird. So but the hermit

0:47:17.200 --> 0:47:19.480
<v Speaker 2>thirties forties, all he needs to do is shave?

0:47:20.040 --> 0:47:20.279
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

0:47:20.600 --> 0:47:25.520
<v Speaker 2>Is he like he's just a normal person.

0:47:25.680 --> 0:47:25.919
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:47:25.960 --> 0:47:28.120
<v Speaker 2>But there's the one thing about him is that he

0:47:28.200 --> 0:47:31.680
<v Speaker 2>will not let that guy get behind him no matter what. Yeah,

0:47:31.800 --> 0:47:35.120
<v Speaker 2>I get it, okay, So that I think if anything,

0:47:35.480 --> 0:47:37.759
<v Speaker 2>him having that weird quirk would be expected. It was

0:47:37.840 --> 0:47:40.439
<v Speaker 2>him being just totally normal was the unexpected part.

0:47:40.520 --> 0:47:42.359
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, that's what I agree. I agree with it.

0:47:43.320 --> 0:47:44.200
<v Speaker 3>Well it's you, buddy.

0:47:44.320 --> 0:47:48.359
<v Speaker 1>Oh okay. That discovery intrigued one. I still excluded the

0:47:48.440 --> 0:47:53.280
<v Speaker 1>explanation of madness. Copley's manner and conversation were so convincingly sane,

0:47:53.800 --> 0:47:56.960
<v Speaker 1>but I reverted to and elaborated those other two suggestions

0:47:56.960 --> 0:47:59.920
<v Speaker 1>that had been made. I could not avoid the inference

0:48:00.080 --> 0:48:02.960
<v Speaker 1>that the man must, in some strange way be afraid

0:48:03.000 --> 0:48:05.799
<v Speaker 1>of me, and I hesitated as to whether he were

0:48:06.160 --> 0:48:09.720
<v Speaker 1>flying from some form of justice or from revenge, perhaps

0:48:09.719 --> 0:48:13.160
<v Speaker 1>a vendetta. Either theory seemed to account for his intense

0:48:13.400 --> 0:48:17.880
<v Speaker 1>appraising stare. I inferred that his longing for companionship had

0:48:17.920 --> 0:48:20.600
<v Speaker 1>grown so strong that he had determined to risk the

0:48:20.640 --> 0:48:24.400
<v Speaker 1>possibility of my being an emissary sit by some to

0:48:24.520 --> 0:48:29.160
<v Speaker 1>me exquisitely romantic person or persons who desired Copley's death.

0:48:29.920 --> 0:48:30.759
<v Speaker 3>Man, I know.

0:48:31.200 --> 0:48:34.160
<v Speaker 1>I recalled and wallowed in some of the marvelous imaginings

0:48:34.160 --> 0:48:37.000
<v Speaker 1>of the novelist. I wondered if I could make Copley

0:48:37.120 --> 0:48:40.120
<v Speaker 1>speak by convincing him of my innocent identity.

0:48:40.520 --> 0:48:42.040
<v Speaker 3>How I thrilled at the prospect.

0:48:42.840 --> 0:48:44.960
<v Speaker 1>So this guy's just like ooh, maybe he thinks I'm

0:48:44.960 --> 0:48:49.120
<v Speaker 1>an assassin, and maybe I can convince him that I'm not.

0:48:49.320 --> 0:48:52.480
<v Speaker 2>That'll be fun, right, Maybe that'll get me some currency

0:48:52.480 --> 0:48:54.480
<v Speaker 2>with him if I convince him I'm not here to

0:48:54.560 --> 0:48:54.960
<v Speaker 2>kill him.

0:48:55.040 --> 0:48:55.960
<v Speaker 3>Yeah.

0:48:56.000 --> 0:48:58.600
<v Speaker 1>But the explanation of it all came without any effort

0:48:58.640 --> 0:49:00.759
<v Speaker 1>on my part. He said, me out of the hut

0:49:00.800 --> 0:49:03.480
<v Speaker 1>while he prepared our supper, quite a magnificent meal, by

0:49:03.520 --> 0:49:06.160
<v Speaker 1>the way. I saw his reason at once. He could

0:49:06.200 --> 0:49:08.719
<v Speaker 1>not manage all of that business of cooking and laying

0:49:08.760 --> 0:49:11.920
<v Speaker 1>the table without turning his back on me. One thing, however,

0:49:11.960 --> 0:49:14.480
<v Speaker 1>puzzled me a little. He drew down the blind of

0:49:14.480 --> 0:49:18.080
<v Speaker 1>the little square window as soon as I had gone outside. Naturally,

0:49:18.120 --> 0:49:20.680
<v Speaker 1>I made no demure. I climbed down to the edge

0:49:20.719 --> 0:49:23.200
<v Speaker 1>of the sea. It was a glorious evening and waited

0:49:23.239 --> 0:49:25.319
<v Speaker 1>until he called me. He stood at the door of

0:49:25.320 --> 0:49:27.719
<v Speaker 1>the hut until I was within a few feet of him,

0:49:28.120 --> 0:49:30.279
<v Speaker 1>and then retreated into the room and sat down with

0:49:30.320 --> 0:49:33.240
<v Speaker 1>his back to the wall. We discussed our afternoon sport

0:49:33.280 --> 0:49:35.560
<v Speaker 1>as we had supper. But when we had finished and

0:49:35.600 --> 0:49:39.600
<v Speaker 1>our pipes were going, he said, suddenly, I don't see

0:49:39.640 --> 0:49:43.480
<v Speaker 1>why I shouldn't tell you. Like a fool, I agreed eagerly,

0:49:43.719 --> 0:49:45.440
<v Speaker 1>when I might so easily.

0:49:45.000 --> 0:49:45.719
<v Speaker 3>Have stopped him.

0:49:46.680 --> 0:49:50.600
<v Speaker 1>It began when I was quite a kid, he said.

0:49:51.280 --> 0:49:54.040
<v Speaker 1>My mother found me crying in the garden, and all

0:49:54.080 --> 0:49:57.719
<v Speaker 1>I could tell her was that Claude, my elder brother,

0:49:58.080 --> 0:50:01.080
<v Speaker 1>looked horrid. I couldn't bear the sight of him for

0:50:01.160 --> 0:50:04.120
<v Speaker 1>days afterward, either, But I was such a perfectly normal

0:50:04.200 --> 0:50:08.720
<v Speaker 1>child that they weren't seriously perturbed about this one idiosyncrasy

0:50:08.719 --> 0:50:12.000
<v Speaker 1>of mine. They thought that Claude had made a face

0:50:12.040 --> 0:50:15.160
<v Speaker 1>at me and frightened me. My father whacked me for it. Eventually,

0:50:16.360 --> 0:50:18.640
<v Speaker 1>I'm playing this guy over than thirty five years old.

0:50:18.640 --> 0:50:22.640
<v Speaker 2>I realized he's just morphed into hannibal lecture.

0:50:22.880 --> 0:50:26.200
<v Speaker 3>Okay, fly fly Claris.

0:50:28.000 --> 0:50:31.640
<v Speaker 1>Perhaps that whacking stuck in my mind. Anyway, I didn't

0:50:31.680 --> 0:50:36.040
<v Speaker 1>confide my peculiarity to anyone until I was nearly seventeen.

0:50:36.560 --> 0:50:38.799
<v Speaker 1>I was ashamed of it, of course, I still am

0:50:38.800 --> 0:50:41.279
<v Speaker 1>in a way. He stopped and looked down pushed his

0:50:41.360 --> 0:50:43.680
<v Speaker 1>plate away from him and folded his arms on the table.

0:50:44.200 --> 0:50:46.440
<v Speaker 1>I was pining to ask a question, but I was

0:50:46.480 --> 0:50:49.359
<v Speaker 1>afraid to interrupt, and after a moment's hesitation, he looked

0:50:49.400 --> 0:50:52.040
<v Speaker 1>up and held my gaze again, but now without that

0:50:52.200 --> 0:50:55.760
<v Speaker 1>inquiring look of his. Rather, he seemed to be looking

0:50:56.000 --> 0:50:57.640
<v Speaker 1>for sympathy.

0:50:57.719 --> 0:50:59.160
<v Speaker 3>I told my aushmaster.

0:50:59.600 --> 0:51:02.360
<v Speaker 1>He said he was a splendid chap and he was

0:51:02.520 --> 0:51:05.360
<v Speaker 1>very decent about it. Took it all quite seriously and

0:51:05.400 --> 0:51:09.279
<v Speaker 1>advised me to consult an occultist, which I did. I

0:51:09.320 --> 0:51:12.279
<v Speaker 1>went in the holidays with the pater. I had given

0:51:12.400 --> 0:51:14.560
<v Speaker 1>him a more reasonable account of my trouble, and he

0:51:14.880 --> 0:51:17.360
<v Speaker 1>took me to the best man in London. He was

0:51:17.400 --> 0:51:20.840
<v Speaker 1>tremendously interested. And it proves that there must be something

0:51:20.880 --> 0:51:24.360
<v Speaker 1>in it that it can't be imagination, because he really

0:51:24.400 --> 0:51:28.160
<v Speaker 1>found a defect in my eyes, something quite new to him,

0:51:28.200 --> 0:51:31.200
<v Speaker 1>he said. He called it a new form of astigmatism.

0:51:31.239 --> 0:51:34.399
<v Speaker 1>But of course, as he pointed out, no glasses would

0:51:34.400 --> 0:51:40.160
<v Speaker 1>be of any use to me. But what I began,

0:51:40.440 --> 0:51:44.480
<v Speaker 1>unable to keep down my curiosity any longer, hopefully hesitated

0:51:44.480 --> 0:51:48.280
<v Speaker 1>and dropped his eyes. A stigmatism, you know, he said?

0:51:49.120 --> 0:51:49.840
<v Speaker 5>Is it defect.

0:51:50.640 --> 0:51:53.560
<v Speaker 1>I quote the dictionary. I learned that definition by heart.

0:51:54.160 --> 0:51:57.440
<v Speaker 1>I often puzzle over it, still, causing images of lines

0:51:58.000 --> 0:52:01.759
<v Speaker 1>having a certain direction to be indist while those of

0:52:01.920 --> 0:52:06.239
<v Speaker 1>lines transverse to the former are distinctly seen. Only mine

0:52:06.320 --> 0:52:09.160
<v Speaker 1>is peculiar. And the fact that my sight is perfectly

0:52:09.239 --> 0:52:12.480
<v Speaker 1>normal except when I look back at anyone over my shoulder.

0:52:13.360 --> 0:52:14.960
<v Speaker 3>He looked up almost pathetically.

0:52:16.239 --> 0:52:18.960
<v Speaker 1>All right, So this guy's getting the truth out of him.

0:52:19.000 --> 0:52:21.040
<v Speaker 1>This's got something wrong with his eyes.

0:52:21.760 --> 0:52:24.279
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And he found out that there actually is something

0:52:24.320 --> 0:52:26.359
<v Speaker 2>wrong with it because he got his dad to take

0:52:26.440 --> 0:52:30.480
<v Speaker 2>him to essentially, I guess a psychic or something in London.

0:52:30.920 --> 0:52:33.120
<v Speaker 1>And the deal is, though, is the guy when he

0:52:33.239 --> 0:52:40.160
<v Speaker 1>looks over his shoulder at somebody, something's up, right, which

0:52:40.160 --> 0:52:41.640
<v Speaker 1>is why I didn't want anyone behind him.

0:52:42.120 --> 0:52:44.040
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, take it away.

0:52:46.000 --> 0:52:48.600
<v Speaker 2>I could see that, he hoped I might understand without

0:52:48.719 --> 0:52:53.520
<v Speaker 2>further explanation. I had to confess myself utterly mystified. What

0:52:53.680 --> 0:52:56.040
<v Speaker 2>had this trifling defect of vision to do with his

0:52:56.160 --> 0:52:59.280
<v Speaker 2>coming to live on the guland I wondered, I frowned

0:52:59.280 --> 0:53:08.160
<v Speaker 2>my perplexity. But I I don't see, I said. He

0:53:08.239 --> 0:53:10.359
<v Speaker 2>knocked out his pipe and began to scrape the bowl

0:53:10.400 --> 0:53:12.040
<v Speaker 2>with his pocket knife.

0:53:12.280 --> 0:53:16.840
<v Speaker 1>Well, mine is a kind of moral astigmatism, too, he said.

0:53:17.360 --> 0:53:20.120
<v Speaker 1>At least it gives me a kind of moral insight.

0:53:20.600 --> 0:53:28.319
<v Speaker 1>I'm afraid I must call it insight. There are some

0:53:28.400 --> 0:53:32.200
<v Speaker 1>who call me Tim.

0:53:33.160 --> 0:53:35.040
<v Speaker 3>I proved in some cases that.

0:53:35.880 --> 0:53:39.200
<v Speaker 2>He dropped his voice. He was apparently deeply engrossed in

0:53:39.239 --> 0:53:41.839
<v Speaker 2>the scraping out of his pipe. He kept his eyes

0:53:41.880 --> 0:53:43.520
<v Speaker 2>on it as he continued.

0:53:43.800 --> 0:53:46.920
<v Speaker 1>Normally, you understand, when I look at people straight in

0:53:46.960 --> 0:53:50.080
<v Speaker 1>the face, I see them as anybody else sees them.

0:53:50.440 --> 0:53:53.480
<v Speaker 3>But when I look back at them over my shoulder.

0:53:53.480 --> 0:53:56.960
<v Speaker 1>I see, oh, I see all their vices and defects.

0:53:57.920 --> 0:54:01.600
<v Speaker 1>Their faces remain, in a sense the same. I'm perfectly recognizable,

0:54:01.640 --> 0:54:04.120
<v Speaker 1>I mean, but distorted beastly.

0:54:04.960 --> 0:54:06.280
<v Speaker 3>There was my brother Claude.

0:54:06.440 --> 0:54:09.400
<v Speaker 1>Good looking chap he was, But when I saw him

0:54:09.520 --> 0:54:12.640
<v Speaker 1>that way, he had a nose like a parrot, and

0:54:12.680 --> 0:54:15.760
<v Speaker 1>he looked sort of weakly voracious and vicious.

0:54:16.920 --> 0:54:20.160
<v Speaker 2>He stopped and shuddered slightly, and then added.

0:54:20.600 --> 0:54:23.239
<v Speaker 1>And no one knows now that he is like that too.

0:54:23.760 --> 0:54:26.879
<v Speaker 1>He's just been hammered on the stock exchange, rotten sort

0:54:26.880 --> 0:54:31.920
<v Speaker 1>of failure. It was so this guy. Uh, he's explaining

0:54:31.920 --> 0:54:32.520
<v Speaker 1>about his brother.

0:54:33.960 --> 0:54:36.160
<v Speaker 3>Yes, so his look like a creep.

0:54:36.719 --> 0:54:39.319
<v Speaker 2>Right, And he looked at him over his shoulder and

0:54:39.360 --> 0:54:41.280
<v Speaker 2>saw his brother looking really weird.

0:54:41.440 --> 0:54:45.640
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, like his true self basically m hm. And then Dennison,

0:54:46.239 --> 0:54:49.880
<v Speaker 1>my house master, you know, such a decent chap. I

0:54:50.080 --> 0:54:52.520
<v Speaker 1>never looked at him that way until the end of

0:54:52.560 --> 0:54:55.480
<v Speaker 1>my last term at school. I had got into the

0:54:55.520 --> 0:54:58.000
<v Speaker 1>habit more or less of never looking over my shoulder,

0:54:58.040 --> 0:55:01.520
<v Speaker 1>you see, But I was always getting caught. That was

0:55:01.560 --> 0:55:04.880
<v Speaker 1>an instance. I was playing for the school against the

0:55:04.920 --> 0:55:09.680
<v Speaker 1>old boys. Dennison called out good luck, old tap just

0:55:09.719 --> 0:55:12.200
<v Speaker 1>as I was going in, and I forgot and looked

0:55:12.239 --> 0:55:12.759
<v Speaker 1>back at him.

0:55:12.840 --> 0:55:13.920
<v Speaker 3>Hey, that was a flashback.

0:55:14.040 --> 0:55:15.879
<v Speaker 1>Nice work on the fly.

0:55:16.560 --> 0:55:16.840
<v Speaker 3>Mm hm.

0:55:19.040 --> 0:55:22.080
<v Speaker 2>Go ahead, oh am, I narrating, that's right. Yeah. I

0:55:22.120 --> 0:55:24.880
<v Speaker 2>waited breathless, and as he did not go on, I

0:55:24.960 --> 0:55:34.879
<v Speaker 2>prompted him with was he was he like wrong too?

0:55:36.239 --> 0:55:39.000
<v Speaker 2>Copley nodded, weak, poor devil.

0:55:39.280 --> 0:55:42.000
<v Speaker 1>His eyes were all right, but they were fighting his

0:55:42.080 --> 0:55:43.279
<v Speaker 1>mouth if you know what I mean.

0:55:44.320 --> 0:55:45.399
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea what that means.

0:55:45.719 --> 0:55:48.440
<v Speaker 2>I looked it up. I can't find any explanation of

0:55:48.480 --> 0:55:51.680
<v Speaker 2>that whatsoever. So no, we don't know what you mean,

0:55:51.760 --> 0:55:52.520
<v Speaker 2>William Copley.

0:55:52.600 --> 0:55:54.840
<v Speaker 1>I think he just means he looked funny or something.

0:55:55.360 --> 0:55:58.000
<v Speaker 2>I guess, but I feel like he's talking about a

0:55:58.040 --> 0:55:59.880
<v Speaker 2>specific way that he looked funny.

0:56:00.160 --> 0:56:01.839
<v Speaker 1>Well, he says, if you know what I mean, your

0:56:01.840 --> 0:56:03.600
<v Speaker 1>guys should say nobody knows what you.

0:56:03.600 --> 0:56:05.879
<v Speaker 2>Mean, right, Harold, I'll add that line.

0:56:06.040 --> 0:56:08.080
<v Speaker 3>Okay, they were fighting his mouth.

0:56:08.120 --> 0:56:16.000
<v Speaker 2>If you know what I mean, I feel like nobody

0:56:16.200 --> 0:56:17.080
<v Speaker 2>knows what you mean.

0:56:17.640 --> 0:56:19.200
<v Speaker 3>Oh man, you're really milking this one.

0:56:20.480 --> 0:56:22.640
<v Speaker 1>There would have been an awful scandal at that school

0:56:22.680 --> 0:56:24.960
<v Speaker 1>there four years after I left, if they hadn't hushed

0:56:24.960 --> 0:56:26.840
<v Speaker 1>it up and got Dennison out of the country.

0:56:27.400 --> 0:56:29.600
<v Speaker 2>Still no idea what was wrong with Dennison?

0:56:29.680 --> 0:56:33.000
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I think it's one of those things left unsaid. Then,

0:56:33.040 --> 0:56:36.080
<v Speaker 1>if you want any more instances, there was the occultist,

0:56:36.200 --> 0:56:39.239
<v Speaker 1>Big Fine Chap he was, of course. He made me

0:56:39.280 --> 0:56:42.160
<v Speaker 1>look at him over my shoulder to test me, and

0:56:42.200 --> 0:56:45.560
<v Speaker 1>I told more or less he was simply livid for

0:56:45.600 --> 0:56:49.120
<v Speaker 1>a moment. He was a sensualist, you see, And when

0:56:49.160 --> 0:56:52.080
<v Speaker 1>I saw him that way, he looked like some filthy

0:56:52.120 --> 0:56:57.080
<v Speaker 1>old hog. I realized my accent is completely different than

0:56:57.120 --> 0:56:57.480
<v Speaker 1>the big.

0:56:57.480 --> 0:56:59.640
<v Speaker 2>But it's very pleasing I was going to tell you,

0:57:00.080 --> 0:57:00.719
<v Speaker 2>great job with.

0:57:00.680 --> 0:57:02.880
<v Speaker 3>This, I found it. But he's morphed.

0:57:03.760 --> 0:57:06.360
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, but that's what happens. He's evolved.

0:57:06.400 --> 0:57:09.320
<v Speaker 3>That's right. The thing that really finished.

0:57:08.880 --> 0:57:11.720
<v Speaker 2>Me he went back to the beginning.

0:57:12.000 --> 0:57:15.359
<v Speaker 3>Okay, keep nearrating, though, he.

0:57:15.280 --> 0:57:17.360
<v Speaker 2>Went on after a long interval.

0:57:17.440 --> 0:57:21.120
<v Speaker 1>Was the breaking off of my engagement to Helen. We

0:57:21.120 --> 0:57:23.360
<v Speaker 1>were frightfully in love with one another, and I told

0:57:23.400 --> 0:57:26.680
<v Speaker 1>her about my trouble. She was very sympathetic, and I

0:57:26.720 --> 0:57:31.080
<v Speaker 1>suppose rather sentimentally romantic too. She believed it was some

0:57:31.120 --> 0:57:33.680
<v Speaker 1>sort of spell that had been put on me. I

0:57:33.720 --> 0:57:35.880
<v Speaker 1>think anyway. She had a theory that if I once

0:57:35.960 --> 0:57:39.560
<v Speaker 1>saw anybody truly and ordinarily over my shoulder, I should

0:57:39.560 --> 0:57:42.080
<v Speaker 1>never have any more trouble, the spell would be broken

0:57:42.200 --> 0:57:44.840
<v Speaker 1>sort of thing. And of course she wanted to be

0:57:44.960 --> 0:57:48.400
<v Speaker 1>the person. I didn't resist her much. I was infatuated.

0:57:48.400 --> 0:57:52.040
<v Speaker 1>I suppose anyway. I thought she was perfection, and that

0:57:52.160 --> 0:57:55.680
<v Speaker 1>it was simply impossible that I could find any defect

0:57:55.760 --> 0:57:59.880
<v Speaker 1>in her. So I agreed and looked that way.

0:58:00.880 --> 0:58:04.080
<v Speaker 2>His voice had fallen to an even note of despondency,

0:58:04.600 --> 0:58:06.920
<v Speaker 2>as though the telling of this final tragedy in his

0:58:06.960 --> 0:58:09.360
<v Speaker 2>life had brought him to the indifference of despair.

0:58:10.280 --> 0:58:13.160
<v Speaker 3>I looked, he continued.

0:58:13.280 --> 0:58:18.080
<v Speaker 1>And saw a creature with no chin and watery, doting eyes,

0:58:18.600 --> 0:58:24.920
<v Speaker 1>a fateful, slobbery thing. Eh, I can't. I never spoke

0:58:25.000 --> 0:58:27.360
<v Speaker 1>to her again. That broke me, you.

0:58:27.360 --> 0:58:28.520
<v Speaker 2>Know, he said.

0:58:28.560 --> 0:58:31.640
<v Speaker 1>Presently after that, I didn't care. I used to look

0:58:31.640 --> 0:58:33.840
<v Speaker 1>at everyone that way until I had to get away

0:58:33.880 --> 0:58:36.760
<v Speaker 1>from humanity. I was living in a world of beasts.

0:58:37.320 --> 0:58:40.040
<v Speaker 1>Most of them looked like some beast or bird or other.

0:58:40.480 --> 0:58:43.040
<v Speaker 1>The strong were mor vicious and criminal, and the weak

0:58:43.120 --> 0:58:43.880
<v Speaker 1>were loathsome.

0:58:44.600 --> 0:58:45.720
<v Speaker 3>I couldn't stick it.

0:58:46.280 --> 0:58:46.840
<v Speaker 5>In the end.

0:58:47.040 --> 0:58:48.919
<v Speaker 1>I had to come here, away from them all.

0:58:50.320 --> 0:58:57.160
<v Speaker 2>The thought occurred to me, Ah, have you ever looked

0:58:57.160 --> 0:59:02.240
<v Speaker 2>at you know, you're in the glass?

0:59:02.680 --> 0:59:05.920
<v Speaker 1>I asked, Are you certainly drawing with your toe and

0:59:05.920 --> 0:59:06.960
<v Speaker 1>the sand in front of them?

0:59:09.400 --> 0:59:10.000
<v Speaker 3>Very batchful?

0:59:10.680 --> 0:59:13.240
<v Speaker 1>I'm no better than the rest of them, he said.

0:59:13.680 --> 0:59:16.880
<v Speaker 1>That's why I grew this rotten beard. I hadn't got

0:59:16.880 --> 0:59:19.360
<v Speaker 1>a looking glass here, And you.

0:59:19.320 --> 0:59:23.640
<v Speaker 2>Can't keep it like a stiff neck as it were.

0:59:24.000 --> 0:59:30.480
<v Speaker 2>I asked, you, you know, like going about looking humanity

0:59:30.640 --> 0:59:34.440
<v Speaker 2>just you know, you know, like straight in the face.

0:59:36.040 --> 0:59:39.919
<v Speaker 1>The temptation is too strong, Copley said, and it gets

0:59:39.960 --> 0:59:45.040
<v Speaker 1>stronger curiosity. Partly, I suppose, but partly it's the momentary

0:59:45.080 --> 0:59:46.280
<v Speaker 1>sense of superiority.

0:59:46.320 --> 0:59:47.760
<v Speaker 3>It gives you.

0:59:47.760 --> 0:59:50.080
<v Speaker 1>You see them like that, you know, and forget how

0:59:50.120 --> 0:59:54.120
<v Speaker 1>you look yourself, and then after a bit it sickens you.

0:59:54.120 --> 0:59:59.520
<v Speaker 2>You haven't, I said, and hesitated. I wanted to know.

1:00:00.080 --> 1:00:06.920
<v Speaker 2>I was horribly afraid you haven't. I began again, Er

1:00:08.200 --> 1:00:11.920
<v Speaker 2>you have? Uh? Or have you let me figure out

1:00:11.920 --> 1:00:20.480
<v Speaker 2>how to say this? Have have you looked at me

1:00:23.160 --> 1:00:23.520
<v Speaker 2>that way?

1:00:25.280 --> 1:00:25.760
<v Speaker 3>Not yet?

1:00:26.360 --> 1:00:26.800
<v Speaker 2>He said?

1:00:28.560 --> 1:00:31.840
<v Speaker 1>M M.

1:00:33.360 --> 1:00:33.720
<v Speaker 5>Do you.

1:00:35.320 --> 1:00:35.400
<v Speaker 1>Do?

1:00:35.480 --> 1:00:36.120
<v Speaker 5>You suppose?

1:00:36.480 --> 1:00:39.280
<v Speaker 1>Probably you look all right, of course, but then show

1:00:39.320 --> 1:00:40.720
<v Speaker 1>did heaps of the others.

1:00:45.720 --> 1:00:53.280
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So you have no idea none how I should

1:00:54.080 --> 1:00:58.280
<v Speaker 2>look to you that way?

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<v Speaker 1>Absolutely none. I've been trying to guess, but I can't.

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<v Speaker 2>Oh man, you wouldn't you know? You wouldn't care. Not now,

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<v Speaker 2>he said, sharply, Perhaps just before you go m ah,

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<v Speaker 2>you feel fairly certain. Then he nodded with disgusting conviction.

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<v Speaker 2>I went to bed, wondering whether Helen's theory wasn't a

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<v Speaker 2>true one, and if I might not break the spell

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<v Speaker 2>for poor old Copley. The boatman came for me soon

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<v Speaker 2>after eleven. The next morning, I had shaken off some

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<v Speaker 2>of the feeling of superstitious horror that held me overnight.

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<v Speaker 2>And I had not repeated my request to Copley, nor

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<v Speaker 2>had he offered to look into the dark places of

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<v Speaker 2>my soul. He came down after me to the landing

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<v Speaker 2>place and we shook hands warmly, but he said nothing

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<v Speaker 2>about my revisiting him. And then, just as we were

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<v Speaker 2>putting off, he turned backward toward the hut and looked

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<v Speaker 2>at me over his shoulder, just one quick glance. Uh

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<v Speaker 2>hold on, hold on, wait, I commanded the boatman, and

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<v Speaker 2>I stood up and called to him. Uh Copley, I shouted.

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<v Speaker 2>He turned and looked at me, and I saw that

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<v Speaker 2>his face was transfigured. He wore an expression of foolish

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<v Speaker 2>disgust and loathing. I had seen something like it on

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<v Speaker 2>the face of a child who was just going to

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<v Speaker 2>be sick.

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<v Speaker 3>Oh boy.

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<v Speaker 2>I dropped down into the boat and turned my back

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<v Speaker 2>on him. I wondered then if that was how he

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<v Speaker 2>had seen himself in the glass. But since I have

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<v Speaker 2>only wondered what it was he saw in me, and

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<v Speaker 2>I can never go back to ask him.

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<v Speaker 3>Ah.

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<v Speaker 2>Pretty great stuff.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, torturous ending though, for sure. But I means nicely cinematically,

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<v Speaker 1>you know for sure?

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<v Speaker 2>I mean, isn't not knowing the most horrible thing of all?

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<v Speaker 1>Well? Yeah, especially when you see Kopley turn around and

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<v Speaker 1>look and then look like a kid that's about to puke.

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<v Speaker 2>Yeah, what would have been? Graters? Have you just been

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<v Speaker 2>over and started puking after something?

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<v Speaker 5>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 3>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 1>All over the rock?

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<v Speaker 2>Really?

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah?

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<v Speaker 2>Man, I feel like we should make a second career

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<v Speaker 2>of punching up old short stories and making them better.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah all right, yeah, I think it's a good market

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<v Speaker 1>in that.

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<v Speaker 2>Let those painters that go around and find like yard

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<v Speaker 2>sale paintings and then paint stuff in them.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, let's do it.

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<v Speaker 2>Okay, speaking of let's do it, Chuck, I say that

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<v Speaker 2>this this Halloween Spectacular has come to an end, don't you.

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<v Speaker 1>Yeah, there's been great fun, my friend. This is always

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<v Speaker 1>one of the more fun episodes that we do, along

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<v Speaker 1>with our Christmas special. We have a lot of fun

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<v Speaker 1>doing these, and you did a great, great job this year.

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<v Speaker 2>As did you. Thank you so Happy Halloween everybody from

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<v Speaker 2>Chuck and Me and Jerry from Ben from Dave from Dave,

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<v Speaker 2>from Livia, from Ed from the whole crew. Here it's

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<v Speaker 2>stuff you Should Know, stay safe, and be ghoulish.

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