1 00:00:01,720 --> 00:00:10,040 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media. It's the cools On Media book Club, 2 00:00:11,520 --> 00:00:14,000 Speaker 1: which has always been our jingle. I'm your host, Margaret 3 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:18,000 Speaker 1: Kiljoy and this week, Uncles On Media book Club, I'm 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:19,920 Speaker 1: going to read you a story. How was that different 5 00:00:19,920 --> 00:00:23,160 Speaker 1: from other weeks? It's not. That's the great thing about 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:26,360 Speaker 1: podcasts is that they do a thing and then they 7 00:00:26,440 --> 00:00:36,200 Speaker 1: keep doing that thing forever wherever. Anyway, Okay, so last 8 00:00:36,200 --> 00:00:40,200 Speaker 1: week I brought you a story by William Morris, who 9 00:00:40,320 --> 00:00:42,880 Speaker 1: was the in case anyone missed that one, William Morris 10 00:00:42,960 --> 00:00:47,519 Speaker 1: is this wildly fascinating man. He was the socialist in 11 00:00:47,600 --> 00:00:50,519 Speaker 1: nineteenth century England who was from a upper middle class background, 12 00:00:50,560 --> 00:00:57,400 Speaker 1: who became the primary one of the primary interior designers 13 00:00:57,440 --> 00:01:03,520 Speaker 1: and like textile designers of Victorian England, and like set 14 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,760 Speaker 1: so many of the aesthetic ideas. When you imagine Victorian wallpaper, 15 00:01:07,480 --> 00:01:11,760 Speaker 1: you were imagining something that William Morris either designed or 16 00:01:11,959 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: was designing very similar things. But he was also kind 17 00:01:17,120 --> 00:01:19,480 Speaker 1: of the inventor of the fantasy genre. There's other people 18 00:01:19,520 --> 00:01:23,119 Speaker 1: who argue about other books that will have done this prior, 19 00:01:23,240 --> 00:01:26,240 Speaker 1: but in a lot of ways, the modern fantasy genre 20 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:29,840 Speaker 1: can be tracked to William Morris. Writing a bunch of 21 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: novels about secondary worlds with magic, and he's one of 22 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:41,200 Speaker 1: the primary inspirations for JR. Tolkien. And why am I 23 00:01:41,200 --> 00:01:43,240 Speaker 1: talking so much about him when we read him last week? 24 00:01:43,280 --> 00:01:45,240 Speaker 1: Because we're going to read him again. I'm going to 25 00:01:45,319 --> 00:01:47,000 Speaker 1: read a slightly longer story and it's going to be 26 00:01:47,080 --> 00:01:50,000 Speaker 1: this week and next week. And the reason I want 27 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:53,080 Speaker 1: to read you all this story is because not only 28 00:01:53,120 --> 00:02:01,919 Speaker 1: did William Morris inspire JR. Tolkien, I suspeact inspired Ursula 29 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:06,440 Speaker 1: Lagwin and Ursula Gwinn. For those who are not familiar, 30 00:02:06,720 --> 00:02:09,560 Speaker 1: which is probably very few of you, but I don't know. 31 00:02:09,680 --> 00:02:13,160 Speaker 1: Everyone starts somewhere. Ursulo Gwin is one of the most 32 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:18,000 Speaker 1: important feminist science fiction writers of all time. I consider 33 00:02:18,040 --> 00:02:21,960 Speaker 1: her personally to be the greatest English language anarchist fiction writer. 34 00:02:23,200 --> 00:02:28,080 Speaker 1: And I care about her work a lot, and a 35 00:02:28,120 --> 00:02:30,560 Speaker 1: lot of my friends do too. And she wrote this 36 00:02:30,560 --> 00:02:33,400 Speaker 1: one story that I won't read to you because I 37 00:02:33,720 --> 00:02:35,800 Speaker 1: don't I'd have to get in touch with her estate 38 00:02:35,840 --> 00:02:38,639 Speaker 1: in order to make that happen. But she and also 39 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:42,120 Speaker 1: it's like not long enough for this podcast. She wrote 40 00:02:42,120 --> 00:02:44,680 Speaker 1: the story called The Ones Who Walked Away from Omelas 41 00:02:45,840 --> 00:02:48,399 Speaker 1: and this story, I'm gonna spoil it for you because 42 00:02:48,400 --> 00:02:51,920 Speaker 1: it's just a little thought experiment. And in that story, 43 00:02:51,960 --> 00:02:54,919 Speaker 1: there's like a perfect, happy, utopian society where the children 44 00:02:54,960 --> 00:02:57,080 Speaker 1: are playing and the banners are flying and everything is 45 00:02:57,120 --> 00:03:00,040 Speaker 1: good and lovely. And the way that they make that 46 00:02:59,840 --> 00:03:04,800 Speaker 1: happen is that one child is locked up and tortured. 47 00:03:06,040 --> 00:03:08,480 Speaker 1: And how looking at this perfect society but based on 48 00:03:08,560 --> 00:03:13,720 Speaker 1: this fundamentally evil thing, some people walk away, some people leave. 49 00:03:13,840 --> 00:03:22,440 Speaker 1: Omelas LeGuin was an anarchist pacifist, and that idea comes, 50 00:03:22,840 --> 00:03:25,400 Speaker 1: you know, I think that that is that story is 51 00:03:25,440 --> 00:03:29,200 Speaker 1: maybe the most perfect encapsulation of anarchist pacifism as a 52 00:03:29,360 --> 00:03:33,480 Speaker 1: as a parable, and it's a very important story in 53 00:03:33,520 --> 00:03:35,640 Speaker 1: the sort of science fiction canon. A lot of authors 54 00:03:35,680 --> 00:03:39,360 Speaker 1: have sort of written responses or follow ups or sequels 55 00:03:39,480 --> 00:03:43,480 Speaker 1: or you know, other things that tie into it. Personally, 56 00:03:43,480 --> 00:03:46,080 Speaker 1: nothing I've read quite touches the original and sort of 57 00:03:46,080 --> 00:03:49,560 Speaker 1: a like perfectness. And it's so you can only write 58 00:03:49,560 --> 00:03:51,600 Speaker 1: perfect stuff if you write really short, you know, you 59 00:03:51,600 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 1: can do a little perfect, little parable. And I've never 60 00:03:56,040 --> 00:04:01,560 Speaker 1: before run across anything that made me think, oh this 61 00:04:01,640 --> 00:04:05,760 Speaker 1: might have inspired Legwin with o Malas. And then also 62 00:04:06,040 --> 00:04:08,080 Speaker 1: Legwin wrote a book called The Eye of the Heron 63 00:04:08,240 --> 00:04:12,400 Speaker 1: that is in some ways a more book length exploration 64 00:04:12,960 --> 00:04:19,360 Speaker 1: of that idea of pacifism and walking away. But then 65 00:04:19,360 --> 00:04:22,520 Speaker 1: I was reading a lot of William Morris stories and 66 00:04:22,600 --> 00:04:26,479 Speaker 1: I read a story called Svend and his Brethren from 67 00:04:26,520 --> 00:04:30,440 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty six. And that's the story I'm going to 68 00:04:30,520 --> 00:04:35,880 Speaker 1: read to you today because I think it's related. And 69 00:04:35,920 --> 00:04:40,599 Speaker 1: I could be wrong, but I would suspect that this book, 70 00:04:41,080 --> 00:04:47,760 Speaker 1: the story inspired Legwin to some level. Now, this story 71 00:04:47,800 --> 00:04:49,840 Speaker 1: was written in eighteen fifty six. Like the last story 72 00:04:49,880 --> 00:04:53,960 Speaker 1: I wrote, William Morris wrote a bunch of romances, as 73 00:04:54,000 --> 00:04:56,719 Speaker 1: they were called, which meant like thet of fantasy fables, right, 74 00:04:56,960 --> 00:05:00,440 Speaker 1: not like more like romantic the art movement, not like 75 00:05:01,480 --> 00:05:03,400 Speaker 1: romance novels, although I would read the Shit out of 76 00:05:03,400 --> 00:05:06,080 Speaker 1: a Wayamore's romance novel based on that last story we 77 00:05:06,160 --> 00:05:09,240 Speaker 1: read where he's talking about how beautiful this man is. 78 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:12,120 Speaker 1: But he wrote all these stories I think while he 79 00:05:12,160 --> 00:05:14,880 Speaker 1: was in college. I think while he was in college, 80 00:05:14,920 --> 00:05:16,560 Speaker 1: while he was at Oxford, and they were published in 81 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:20,400 Speaker 1: the Literary Journal there, and that's like more or less 82 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:22,640 Speaker 1: his short story output. And after that he wrote epic 83 00:05:22,640 --> 00:05:24,560 Speaker 1: poetry for a long time, and then later in his 84 00:05:24,600 --> 00:05:26,400 Speaker 1: life he wrote all of the novels, which are much 85 00:05:26,400 --> 00:05:33,479 Speaker 1: more influential overall. And this story, like the last one, 86 00:05:34,800 --> 00:05:36,760 Speaker 1: it's a little bit I'm gonna use this word imprecisely. 87 00:05:36,960 --> 00:05:39,960 Speaker 1: It's a little bit baroque. It's a little bit the 88 00:05:41,000 --> 00:05:43,960 Speaker 1: writing is a little bit flowery. Some certain things you're 89 00:05:44,000 --> 00:05:48,599 Speaker 1: not entirely certain what's happening. And because one hundred and 90 00:05:48,600 --> 00:05:51,479 Speaker 1: seventy years have passed since this story came out, I'll 91 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:53,160 Speaker 1: just kind of go ahead and tell you a little 92 00:05:53,200 --> 00:05:55,200 Speaker 1: bit about the plots of an easier time following it, 93 00:05:55,440 --> 00:05:59,039 Speaker 1: because I would have done me some good. This is 94 00:05:59,040 --> 00:06:05,440 Speaker 1: a story about out one country conquering another, And at 95 00:06:05,480 --> 00:06:07,960 Speaker 1: the start of it, it is about one country conquering another. 96 00:06:08,040 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 1: And how is someone, a woman from that conquered country, 97 00:06:12,760 --> 00:06:15,279 Speaker 1: in order to stop the war, marries the king of 98 00:06:15,320 --> 00:06:18,560 Speaker 1: the other country and is not happy about it. But 99 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:22,320 Speaker 1: then it's a story about their children and the decisions 100 00:06:22,320 --> 00:06:26,320 Speaker 1: that they choose to make. And that's the part where 101 00:06:26,360 --> 00:06:30,080 Speaker 1: it starts getting well, what's all interesting. I hope you 102 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:31,480 Speaker 1: like it. I hope you like it as much as 103 00:06:31,520 --> 00:06:33,560 Speaker 1: I do, because I'll be reading it this week and 104 00:06:33,640 --> 00:06:37,000 Speaker 1: next week, and it's called Svend and his Brethren from 105 00:06:37,000 --> 00:06:44,760 Speaker 1: eighteen fifty six by William Morris. A king in the 106 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,200 Speaker 1: olden time ruled over a mighty nation. A proud man, 107 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:50,760 Speaker 1: he must have been any man who was king of 108 00:06:50,760 --> 00:06:55,000 Speaker 1: that nation. Hundreds of lords each, a prince over many people, 109 00:06:55,440 --> 00:06:58,160 Speaker 1: sat about him in the council chamber under the dim 110 00:06:58,240 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 1: vault that was blue like the vault of heaven, and 111 00:07:01,760 --> 00:07:07,520 Speaker 1: shone with innumerable glistenings of golden stars. North, south, east 112 00:07:07,560 --> 00:07:10,640 Speaker 1: and west. Spread that land of his. The sea did 113 00:07:10,640 --> 00:07:14,640 Speaker 1: not stop it. His empire clomb the high mountains and 114 00:07:14,760 --> 00:07:18,240 Speaker 1: spread abroad its arms over the valleys of them. All 115 00:07:18,280 --> 00:07:21,560 Speaker 1: along the sea lined shore cities set with their crowns 116 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:24,800 Speaker 1: of towers in the midst of broad bays, each fit. 117 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:28,320 Speaker 1: It seemed to be a harbor for the navies of 118 00:07:28,360 --> 00:07:34,040 Speaker 1: all the world. Inland, the pastures and cornlands lay checkered, 119 00:07:34,120 --> 00:07:37,880 Speaker 1: much with climbing over tumbling grape vines under the sun 120 00:07:37,960 --> 00:07:41,240 Speaker 1: that crumbled their clods and drew up the young wheat 121 00:07:41,280 --> 00:07:44,560 Speaker 1: in the springtime, under the rain that made the long 122 00:07:44,600 --> 00:07:49,560 Speaker 1: grass soft and fine. Under all fair fertilizing influences. The 123 00:07:49,640 --> 00:07:52,920 Speaker 1: streams leapt down from the mountain tops or cleft their 124 00:07:52,960 --> 00:07:57,360 Speaker 1: way through the ridged ravines. They grew great rivers like seas. 125 00:07:57,520 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 1: Each one. The mountains were cloven and gave forth from 126 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:05,239 Speaker 1: their scarred sides wealth of ore and splendor of marble. 127 00:08:05,960 --> 00:08:09,800 Speaker 1: All things this people that King Valdemar ruled over could do. 128 00:08:10,520 --> 00:08:13,480 Speaker 1: They leveled mountains that over the smooth roads the wains 129 00:08:13,560 --> 00:08:16,760 Speaker 1: might go laden with silks and spices. From the sea. 130 00:08:17,360 --> 00:08:20,640 Speaker 1: They drained lakes that the land might yield more and 131 00:08:20,800 --> 00:08:24,679 Speaker 1: more As year by year the serfs, driven like cattle, 132 00:08:25,040 --> 00:08:30,440 Speaker 1: but worse fed, worse housed, died slowly scarce. Knowing they 133 00:08:30,440 --> 00:08:34,080 Speaker 1: had souls, They builded them huge ships, and said they 134 00:08:34,120 --> 00:08:38,120 Speaker 1: were masters of the sea too. Only I trow the 135 00:08:38,200 --> 00:08:41,880 Speaker 1: sea was an unruly subject, and often sent them back 136 00:08:41,920 --> 00:08:44,199 Speaker 1: their ships cut into more pieces than the pines of 137 00:08:44,240 --> 00:08:47,559 Speaker 1: them were when the ads first fell upon them. They 138 00:08:47,640 --> 00:08:51,880 Speaker 1: raised towers and bridges, and marble palaces with endless corridors, 139 00:08:51,960 --> 00:08:57,640 Speaker 1: rose scented and cooled with welling fountains. They sent great 140 00:08:57,760 --> 00:09:00,640 Speaker 1: armies and fleets to all points of heaven that the 141 00:09:00,679 --> 00:09:05,160 Speaker 1: winds blow from. Who took and burned many happy cities, wasted, 142 00:09:05,280 --> 00:09:09,120 Speaker 1: many fields and valleys blotted out from the memory of men. 143 00:09:09,200 --> 00:09:13,280 Speaker 1: The names of nations made their men's lives a hopeless 144 00:09:13,320 --> 00:09:17,440 Speaker 1: shame and misery to them, their women's lives disgrace, And 145 00:09:17,520 --> 00:09:21,119 Speaker 1: then came home to have flowers thrown on them in showers, 146 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:26,160 Speaker 1: to be feasted and called heroes. Should not then their 147 00:09:26,280 --> 00:09:30,079 Speaker 1: king be proud of them? Moreover, they could fashion stone 148 00:09:30,120 --> 00:09:33,559 Speaker 1: and brass into the shapes of men. They could write books. 149 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:36,440 Speaker 1: They knew the names of the stars and their number. 150 00:09:37,040 --> 00:09:39,280 Speaker 1: They knew what moved the passions of men in the 151 00:09:39,320 --> 00:09:43,600 Speaker 1: hearts of them, and could draw you up cunningly catalogs 152 00:09:43,600 --> 00:09:47,200 Speaker 1: of virtues and vices. Their wise men could prove to 153 00:09:47,240 --> 00:09:50,840 Speaker 1: you that any lie was true, that any truth was false, 154 00:09:51,320 --> 00:09:54,640 Speaker 1: till your head grew dizzy and your heart sick, and 155 00:09:54,679 --> 00:09:59,000 Speaker 1: you almost doubted if there were a god. Should not 156 00:09:59,160 --> 00:10:02,440 Speaker 1: then their king be proud of them? Their men were 157 00:10:02,480 --> 00:10:06,840 Speaker 1: strong in body and moved about gracefully like dancers, and 158 00:10:06,960 --> 00:10:10,120 Speaker 1: the purple, black scented hair of their gold clothed knights 159 00:10:10,760 --> 00:10:13,440 Speaker 1: seemed to shoot out rays under the blaze of light 160 00:10:13,520 --> 00:10:17,480 Speaker 1: that shone like many suns in the king's halls. Their 161 00:10:17,520 --> 00:10:21,160 Speaker 1: women's faces were very fair in red and white, their 162 00:10:21,200 --> 00:10:25,760 Speaker 1: skins fair and half transparent like the marble of their mountains, 163 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:29,280 Speaker 1: and their voices sounded like the rising of soft music 164 00:10:29,320 --> 00:10:33,920 Speaker 1: from step to step of their own white palaces. Should not, 165 00:10:34,080 --> 00:10:37,199 Speaker 1: then their king be proud of such a people who 166 00:10:37,280 --> 00:10:39,800 Speaker 1: seemed to help so in carrying on the world to 167 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:45,880 Speaker 1: its consummate perfection, which they even hoped their grandchildren would see. 168 00:10:46,480 --> 00:10:52,199 Speaker 1: Alas alas they were slaves, king and priest, noble and burgher, 169 00:10:52,840 --> 00:10:56,040 Speaker 1: just as much as the meanest task surf, perhaps more 170 00:10:56,080 --> 00:10:59,480 Speaker 1: even than he, for they were so willingly and he 171 00:10:59,559 --> 00:11:04,440 Speaker 1: unwillingly enough they could do everything but justice and truth 172 00:11:04,559 --> 00:11:08,760 Speaker 1: and mercy. Therefore God's judgments hung over their heads, not 173 00:11:08,880 --> 00:11:12,840 Speaker 1: fallen yet, but surely to fall one time or other. 174 00:11:14,720 --> 00:11:18,000 Speaker 1: For ages past they had warred against one people only 175 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:21,800 Speaker 1: whom they could not utterly subdue, a feeble people in 176 00:11:21,920 --> 00:11:25,120 Speaker 1: numbers dwelling in the very midst of them among the mountains. 177 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:29,280 Speaker 1: Yet now they were pressing them close, acre after acre, 178 00:11:29,880 --> 00:11:33,280 Speaker 1: with seas of blood to purchase. Each acre had been 179 00:11:33,320 --> 00:11:36,920 Speaker 1: wrested from the free people, and their end seeming drawing 180 00:11:37,040 --> 00:11:40,839 Speaker 1: near and this time the king Valdemar had marched to 181 00:11:40,880 --> 00:11:43,480 Speaker 1: their land with a great army to make war on them. 182 00:11:43,840 --> 00:11:49,240 Speaker 1: He boasted to himself, almost for the last time, a 183 00:11:49,320 --> 00:11:52,520 Speaker 1: walled town in the free land. In that town a 184 00:11:52,600 --> 00:11:56,440 Speaker 1: house built of rough, splintery stones, and in a great, 185 00:11:56,559 --> 00:11:59,680 Speaker 1: low browed room of that house a gray haired man 186 00:11:59,720 --> 00:12:03,480 Speaker 1: paid seen to and fro impatiently. Will she never come, 187 00:12:03,600 --> 00:12:07,160 Speaker 1: he says, it is two hours since the sunset. News 188 00:12:07,200 --> 00:12:09,920 Speaker 1: too of the enemy's being in the land. How dreadful 189 00:12:10,120 --> 00:12:13,840 Speaker 1: if she is taken. His great broad face is marked 190 00:12:13,840 --> 00:12:16,880 Speaker 1: with many furrows, made by the fierce, restless energy of 191 00:12:16,920 --> 00:12:20,079 Speaker 1: the man. But there is a wearied look on it, 192 00:12:20,520 --> 00:12:23,120 Speaker 1: the look of a man who, having done his best, 193 00:12:23,760 --> 00:12:26,880 Speaker 1: is yet beaten. He seemed to long to be gone 194 00:12:26,960 --> 00:12:30,280 Speaker 1: and be at peace. He, the fighter in many battles, 195 00:12:30,679 --> 00:12:33,160 Speaker 1: who often had seemed with his single arm to roll 196 00:12:33,240 --> 00:12:36,760 Speaker 1: back the whole tide of fight, felt despairing enough. Now, 197 00:12:37,559 --> 00:12:41,520 Speaker 1: this last invasion, he thought, must surely quite settle the matter. 198 00:12:42,200 --> 00:12:46,600 Speaker 1: Wave after wave, wave after wave had broken on that 199 00:12:46,720 --> 00:12:49,680 Speaker 1: dear land and been rolled back from it, and yet 200 00:12:49,720 --> 00:12:53,600 Speaker 1: the hungry sea pressed on. They must be finally drowned 201 00:12:53,600 --> 00:12:57,160 Speaker 1: in that sea how fearfully they had been tried for 202 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:03,040 Speaker 1: their sins. Back again to his anxiety concerning Cecilla, his daughter, 203 00:13:03,240 --> 00:13:06,680 Speaker 1: go his thoughts, and he still paces up and down, wearily, 204 00:13:07,240 --> 00:13:10,480 Speaker 1: stopping now and then to gaze intently on things which 205 00:13:10,480 --> 00:13:13,800 Speaker 1: he has seen a hundred times. And the night has 206 00:13:13,840 --> 00:13:18,120 Speaker 1: altogether come on. But what you have probably seen a 207 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:21,199 Speaker 1: hundred times is me make cynical ad transitions in the 208 00:13:21,240 --> 00:13:41,480 Speaker 1: middle of podcasts like this one. And we're back at last. 209 00:13:41,600 --> 00:13:44,360 Speaker 1: The blast of a horn from outside, a challenge and 210 00:13:44,440 --> 00:13:48,400 Speaker 1: counter challenge, and the wicket to the courtyard is swung open. 211 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,120 Speaker 1: For this house, being in a part of the city 212 00:13:51,120 --> 00:13:54,120 Speaker 1: where the walls are somewhat weak, is a little fortress 213 00:13:54,120 --> 00:13:57,959 Speaker 1: in itself, and is very carefully guarded. The old man's 214 00:13:58,000 --> 00:14:00,880 Speaker 1: face brightened at the sound of the newcomer, and he 215 00:14:00,920 --> 00:14:02,760 Speaker 1: went toward the entrance of the house, where he was 216 00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:05,640 Speaker 1: met by two young knights fully armed, and a maiden. 217 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,880 Speaker 1: Thank god you are come, he says, but stops when 218 00:14:09,920 --> 00:14:13,559 Speaker 1: he sees her face, which is quite pale, almost wild, 219 00:14:13,600 --> 00:14:17,679 Speaker 1: with some sorrow. The Saint Cecilia, what is it, he says, 220 00:14:18,800 --> 00:14:22,600 Speaker 1: Father Eric will tell you. Then suddenly a clang for 221 00:14:22,800 --> 00:14:26,440 Speaker 1: Eric has thrown on the ground a richly jeweled sword sheathed, 222 00:14:27,080 --> 00:14:30,080 Speaker 1: and sets his foot on it, crunching the pearls on 223 00:14:30,160 --> 00:14:35,160 Speaker 1: the sheath, then says, flinging up his head. There, father, 224 00:14:35,680 --> 00:14:38,400 Speaker 1: the enemy is in the land. May that happen to 225 00:14:38,480 --> 00:14:41,320 Speaker 1: every one of them. But for my part, I've accounted 226 00:14:41,320 --> 00:14:45,840 Speaker 1: for two already, son, Eric, Son, Eric, you talk forever 227 00:14:45,920 --> 00:14:49,880 Speaker 1: about yourself. Quick, tell me about Cecilia instead. If you 228 00:14:49,960 --> 00:14:53,280 Speaker 1: go on boasting and talking always about yourself, you will 229 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:57,000 Speaker 1: come to no good end. Son after all, But as 230 00:14:57,000 --> 00:15:04,160 Speaker 1: he says this, he smiles nevertheless, and his eyes glistens. Well, father, listen, 231 00:15:04,880 --> 00:15:07,560 Speaker 1: such a strange thing she tells us. Not to be 232 00:15:07,640 --> 00:15:10,360 Speaker 1: believed if she did not tell us herself. The enemy 233 00:15:10,400 --> 00:15:13,280 Speaker 1: has suddenly got generous, one of them at least, which 234 00:15:13,320 --> 00:15:16,480 Speaker 1: is something of a disappointment to me. Ah, pardon about 235 00:15:16,480 --> 00:15:20,040 Speaker 1: myself again, And that is about myself too. Well, Father, 236 00:15:20,440 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: what am I to do? But Cecila, she has wandered 237 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,480 Speaker 1: some way from her maidens. When Ah, but I never 238 00:15:26,520 --> 00:15:29,520 Speaker 1: could tell a story properly. Let her tell it herself 239 00:15:29,560 --> 00:15:33,000 Speaker 1: here Cecilla. Well, well, I see she is better employed 240 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:36,320 Speaker 1: talking namely, How should I know what with sure in 241 00:15:36,360 --> 00:15:39,480 Speaker 1: the window seat yonder. But she has told us that 242 00:15:39,880 --> 00:15:42,680 Speaker 1: as she wandered, almost by herself, she presently heard shouts 243 00:15:42,680 --> 00:15:45,440 Speaker 1: and saw many of the enemy's knights riding quickly towards her. 244 00:15:46,120 --> 00:15:49,080 Speaker 1: Whereat she knelt only and prayed to God, who was 245 00:15:49,200 --> 00:15:52,320 Speaker 1: very gracious to her, For when as she thought something 246 00:15:52,400 --> 00:15:55,200 Speaker 1: dreadful was about to happen, the chief of the knights, 247 00:15:55,520 --> 00:15:59,120 Speaker 1: a very noble looking man, she said, rescued her, and, 248 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:02,480 Speaker 1: after he had gave earnestly into her face, told her 249 00:16:02,600 --> 00:16:05,040 Speaker 1: she might go back again to her own home and 250 00:16:05,120 --> 00:16:08,040 Speaker 1: her maids with her, if only she would tell him 251 00:16:08,360 --> 00:16:11,760 Speaker 1: where she dwelt in her name, and withal. He sent 252 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:14,280 Speaker 1: three knights to escort her some way toward the city. 253 00:16:14,960 --> 00:16:17,440 Speaker 1: Then he turned and rode away with all his knights, 254 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:20,080 Speaker 1: but those three, who, when they knew that he had 255 00:16:20,160 --> 00:16:24,160 Speaker 1: quite gone, she says, began to talk horribly, saying things 256 00:16:24,200 --> 00:16:27,520 Speaker 1: whereof in her terror, she understood the import Only then, 257 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:30,680 Speaker 1: before worse came to pass, came I and slew too, 258 00:16:31,440 --> 00:16:34,040 Speaker 1: as I said, And the other ran away lustily with 259 00:16:34,080 --> 00:16:36,880 Speaker 1: a good courage. And that is the sword of one 260 00:16:36,920 --> 00:16:39,680 Speaker 1: of the slain knights, or as one might rather call 261 00:16:39,760 --> 00:16:45,960 Speaker 1: them rascally katiffs. The old man's thoughts seemed to have 262 00:16:46,000 --> 00:16:49,000 Speaker 1: gone wandering after his son had finished, for he said 263 00:16:49,040 --> 00:16:55,280 Speaker 1: nothing for some time, but at last spoke dejectedly, Eric, 264 00:16:55,800 --> 00:16:58,880 Speaker 1: brave son. When I was your age, I too hoped, 265 00:16:58,880 --> 00:17:00,840 Speaker 1: and my hopes are to come to this at last. 266 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:04,080 Speaker 1: You are blind in your hopeful, youth, Eric, And do 267 00:17:04,160 --> 00:17:06,960 Speaker 1: not see that this king, for the king it certainly was, 268 00:17:07,720 --> 00:17:11,280 Speaker 1: will crush us, and not the less surely, because he 269 00:17:11,400 --> 00:17:15,240 Speaker 1: is plainly not ungenerous, but rather a good, courteous knight. 270 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,800 Speaker 1: Alas poor old gunner, broken down now and ready to die, 271 00:17:19,920 --> 00:17:23,080 Speaker 1: as your country is. How often in the olden time 272 00:17:23,160 --> 00:17:26,160 Speaker 1: thou used to say to thyself, as thou didst ride 273 00:17:26,200 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: at the head of our glorious house, this charge may 274 00:17:29,080 --> 00:17:33,480 Speaker 1: finish this matter, this battle must They passed away, those 275 00:17:33,520 --> 00:17:36,480 Speaker 1: gallant fights, and still the foe pressed on, and hope 276 00:17:36,520 --> 00:17:39,080 Speaker 1: too slowly ebbed away, as the boundaries of our land 277 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:42,240 Speaker 1: grew less and less. Behold, this is the last wave, 278 00:17:42,359 --> 00:17:45,520 Speaker 1: but one or two, and then for a sad farewell 279 00:17:45,520 --> 00:17:48,879 Speaker 1: to name and freedom. Yet surely the end of the 280 00:17:48,880 --> 00:17:51,160 Speaker 1: world must come, when we are swept off the face 281 00:17:51,200 --> 00:17:54,439 Speaker 1: of the earth. God waits long, they say, before he 282 00:17:54,480 --> 00:17:58,920 Speaker 1: avenges his own. As he was speaking, shure and Cecilia 283 00:17:58,960 --> 00:18:01,760 Speaker 1: came nearer to him, and Sellah, all traces of her 284 00:18:01,800 --> 00:18:04,720 Speaker 1: late terror gone from her face. Now, raising her lips 285 00:18:04,720 --> 00:18:07,119 Speaker 1: to his bended forehead, kissed him fondly and said, with 286 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,320 Speaker 1: glowing face, Father, how can I help our people? Do 287 00:18:12,359 --> 00:18:16,159 Speaker 1: they want deaths? I will die? Do they want happiness? 288 00:18:16,520 --> 00:18:19,520 Speaker 1: I will live miserably through years and years, Nor ever 289 00:18:19,600 --> 00:18:23,159 Speaker 1: pray for death. Some hope or other seemed growing up 290 00:18:23,160 --> 00:18:26,680 Speaker 1: his heart and showing through his face when he spoke again, 291 00:18:26,720 --> 00:18:29,840 Speaker 1: putting back the hair from off her face and clasping 292 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,480 Speaker 1: it about with both his hands while he stooped to 293 00:18:32,560 --> 00:18:38,040 Speaker 1: kiss her, much like I have stooped to selling ads 294 00:18:38,080 --> 00:18:58,600 Speaker 1: for a living. Here's the ads, and we're back. God, 295 00:18:58,680 --> 00:19:02,360 Speaker 1: remember your mother, Cissela. Then it was no dream after all, 296 00:19:02,400 --> 00:19:04,919 Speaker 1: but true, perhaps as indeed it seemed at the time. 297 00:19:05,280 --> 00:19:07,480 Speaker 1: But it must come quickly, that woman's deliverance, or not 298 00:19:07,600 --> 00:19:10,000 Speaker 1: at all? When was it that I heard that old 299 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,800 Speaker 1: tale that sounded even then true to my ears? For 300 00:19:12,840 --> 00:19:15,240 Speaker 1: we have not been punished for naught, my son. That 301 00:19:15,359 --> 00:19:18,520 Speaker 1: is not God's way. It comes across my memory, somehow 302 00:19:18,680 --> 00:19:21,320 Speaker 1: mingled in a wonderful manner with the purple of the 303 00:19:21,359 --> 00:19:23,880 Speaker 1: pines on the hillside, with the fragrance of them born 304 00:19:23,960 --> 00:19:26,840 Speaker 1: from far towards me. For know, my children, that in 305 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:30,760 Speaker 1: times passed long long past, now we did an evil 306 00:19:30,840 --> 00:19:33,959 Speaker 1: deed for our forefathers, who have been dead now and 307 00:19:34,000 --> 00:19:36,800 Speaker 1: forgiven so long ago. Once, mad with rage at some 308 00:19:36,840 --> 00:19:40,919 Speaker 1: defeat from their enemies, fired a church and burned therein 309 00:19:41,000 --> 00:19:44,120 Speaker 1: many women who had fled thither for refuge. And from 310 00:19:44,160 --> 00:19:47,560 Speaker 1: that time a curse cleaves to us. Only they say 311 00:19:48,000 --> 00:19:50,400 Speaker 1: that at last we may be saved from utter destruction 312 00:19:50,520 --> 00:19:54,280 Speaker 1: by a woman. I know not, God grant it may 313 00:19:54,280 --> 00:19:59,080 Speaker 1: be so. Then she said, father, brother, and you sure 314 00:19:59,640 --> 00:20:01,679 Speaker 1: come with with me to the chapel. I wish you 315 00:20:01,720 --> 00:20:05,320 Speaker 1: to witness me make an oath. Her face was pale, 316 00:20:05,920 --> 00:20:09,760 Speaker 1: her lips were pale. Her golden hail was pale, but 317 00:20:09,800 --> 00:20:12,679 Speaker 1: not pale. It seemed from any sinking of blood, but 318 00:20:12,760 --> 00:20:16,600 Speaker 1: from gathering of intensest light from somewhere her eyes perhaps, 319 00:20:17,280 --> 00:20:21,840 Speaker 1: for they appeared to burn Inwardly. They followed the sweeping 320 00:20:21,880 --> 00:20:24,399 Speaker 1: of her purple robe in silence through the low, heavy 321 00:20:24,440 --> 00:20:28,280 Speaker 1: beamed passages they entered the little chapel, dimly lighted by 322 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:30,520 Speaker 1: the moon that night as it shone through one of 323 00:20:30,560 --> 00:20:32,920 Speaker 1: the three arrow slits of windows at the east end. 324 00:20:34,160 --> 00:20:37,679 Speaker 1: There was little wealth of marble there I trow little 325 00:20:37,720 --> 00:20:42,840 Speaker 1: time had those fighting men for stone smoothing, albeit one 326 00:20:42,920 --> 00:20:46,280 Speaker 1: noted many semblances of flowers even in the dim half light. 327 00:20:46,800 --> 00:20:49,919 Speaker 1: And here and there the faces of brave men, roughly 328 00:20:49,960 --> 00:20:52,840 Speaker 1: cut enough, but grand because the hand of the carver 329 00:20:52,960 --> 00:20:57,240 Speaker 1: had followed his loving heart. Neither was their gold. Wanting 330 00:20:57,320 --> 00:21:01,080 Speaker 1: to the altar and its canopy. Above the low pillars 331 00:21:01,080 --> 00:21:04,080 Speaker 1: of the knave hung banners taken from the foe by 332 00:21:04,160 --> 00:21:07,760 Speaker 1: the men of that house. Gallant with gold and jewels, 333 00:21:09,480 --> 00:21:11,680 Speaker 1: she walked up to the altar and took the Blessed 334 00:21:11,680 --> 00:21:13,760 Speaker 1: Book of the Gospels from the left side of it, 335 00:21:13,880 --> 00:21:16,920 Speaker 1: then knelt in prayer for a moment or two while 336 00:21:16,920 --> 00:21:20,600 Speaker 1: the three men stood behind her reverently. When she rose, 337 00:21:20,680 --> 00:21:22,919 Speaker 1: she made a sign to them, and from their scabbards 338 00:21:22,960 --> 00:21:26,920 Speaker 1: gleamed three swords in the moonlight. Then, while they held 339 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:30,119 Speaker 1: them aloft and pointed toward the altar, she opened the 340 00:21:30,119 --> 00:21:32,960 Speaker 1: book at the page whereon was painted Christ, the Lord 341 00:21:33,119 --> 00:21:37,560 Speaker 1: dying on the cross, pale against the gleaming gold, She said, 342 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:42,000 Speaker 1: in a firm voice, Christ, God, who dietist for all men, 343 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,160 Speaker 1: so help me, as I refuse not life, happiness, even 344 00:21:46,200 --> 00:21:50,639 Speaker 1: honor for this people whom I love. Then she kissed 345 00:21:50,680 --> 00:21:53,560 Speaker 1: the face so pale against the gold, and knelt again. 346 00:21:55,240 --> 00:21:57,240 Speaker 1: But when she had risen, and before she could leave 347 00:21:57,280 --> 00:21:59,920 Speaker 1: the space by the altar, Shore had stepped up to 348 00:22:00,160 --> 00:22:04,120 Speaker 1: her and seized her hurriedly, folding both his arms about her. 349 00:22:05,119 --> 00:22:07,919 Speaker 1: She let herself be held there, her bosom against his. 350 00:22:08,920 --> 00:22:11,359 Speaker 1: Then he held her away from him a little space, 351 00:22:11,480 --> 00:22:14,159 Speaker 1: holding her by the arms near the shoulder. Then he 352 00:22:14,200 --> 00:22:17,159 Speaker 1: took her hands and laid them across his shoulders, so 353 00:22:17,200 --> 00:22:21,439 Speaker 1: that now she held him. And they said nothing. What 354 00:22:21,520 --> 00:22:24,399 Speaker 1: could they say? Do you know any word for what 355 00:22:24,520 --> 00:22:28,720 Speaker 1: they meant? And the father and brother stood by, looking 356 00:22:28,800 --> 00:22:31,600 Speaker 1: quite awe struck more so than they seemed by her 357 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:35,040 Speaker 1: solemn oath. Till Shore, raising his head from where it lay, 358 00:22:35,440 --> 00:22:38,960 Speaker 1: cried out aloud, May God forgive me as I am 359 00:22:39,000 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: true to her. Hear you. Father and brother, then said Cecilia, 360 00:22:44,840 --> 00:22:46,720 Speaker 1: may God help me in my need, as I am 361 00:22:46,760 --> 00:22:50,360 Speaker 1: true to shure. And the others went, and the two 362 00:22:50,359 --> 00:22:54,200 Speaker 1: were left standing there alone, with no little awe over them, 363 00:22:54,400 --> 00:22:56,439 Speaker 1: strange and shy as they had never been yet to 364 00:22:56,480 --> 00:23:00,119 Speaker 1: each other. Cecilla shuddered and said, in a quick whisper, 365 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:03,640 Speaker 1: sure on your knees and pray that these oaths may 366 00:23:03,680 --> 00:23:08,760 Speaker 1: never clash? Can they? Cecilia? He said, Oh love, she cried, 367 00:23:09,119 --> 00:23:11,639 Speaker 1: you have loosed my hand. Take it again, or I 368 00:23:11,680 --> 00:23:15,680 Speaker 1: shall die. Sure. He took both her hands and held 369 00:23:15,680 --> 00:23:19,920 Speaker 1: them fast to his lips and to his forehead. He said, no, 370 00:23:20,440 --> 00:23:23,159 Speaker 1: God does not allow such things. Truth does not lie. 371 00:23:23,480 --> 00:23:28,480 Speaker 1: You are truth. This need not be prayed for. She said, Oh, 372 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:31,440 Speaker 1: forgive me yet Yet this old chapel is damp and cold, 373 00:23:31,480 --> 00:23:35,400 Speaker 1: even in the burning summer weather. Oh night, sure something 374 00:23:35,480 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: strikes through me. I pray, you kneel and pray. He 375 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,800 Speaker 1: looked steadily at her for a long time without answering, 376 00:23:43,280 --> 00:23:45,359 Speaker 1: as if he were trying once and for all to 377 00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:49,320 Speaker 1: become indeed one with her. Then said, yes, it is possible. 378 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,560 Speaker 1: In no other way could you give up everything. Then 379 00:23:53,560 --> 00:23:56,080 Speaker 1: he took off from his finger a thin golden ring 380 00:23:56,600 --> 00:23:59,680 Speaker 1: and broke it in two and gave her the one half, saying, 381 00:24:01,000 --> 00:24:05,520 Speaker 1: when will they come together? Then within a while they 382 00:24:05,560 --> 00:24:08,399 Speaker 1: left the chapel and walked as in a dream, between 383 00:24:08,440 --> 00:24:11,560 Speaker 1: the dazzling nights of the hall where the knight sat. Now, 384 00:24:11,840 --> 00:24:15,240 Speaker 1: and between those lights sat down together, dreaming still the 385 00:24:15,240 --> 00:24:18,200 Speaker 1: same dream, each of them, while all the knights shouted 386 00:24:18,200 --> 00:24:21,000 Speaker 1: for sure and Cecilla. Even if a man had spent 387 00:24:21,040 --> 00:24:23,320 Speaker 1: all his life looking for sorrowful things, even if he 388 00:24:23,359 --> 00:24:25,880 Speaker 1: had sought them with all his heart and soul, even 389 00:24:25,960 --> 00:24:29,280 Speaker 1: though he had grown gray in that quest, yet would 390 00:24:29,280 --> 00:24:31,800 Speaker 1: he have found nothing in all the world, or perhaps 391 00:24:31,800 --> 00:24:38,159 Speaker 1: in all the stars, either so sorrowful as Cecila. They 392 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:42,000 Speaker 1: had accepted her sacrifice after long deliberation. They had arrayed 393 00:24:42,040 --> 00:24:45,520 Speaker 1: her in purple and scarlet. They had crowned her with gold, 394 00:24:45,600 --> 00:24:48,920 Speaker 1: wrought about with jewels. They had spread abroad the veil 395 00:24:49,000 --> 00:24:51,960 Speaker 1: of her golden hair. Yet now as they led her 396 00:24:52,000 --> 00:24:54,760 Speaker 1: forth in the midst of the band of knights, her 397 00:24:54,800 --> 00:24:58,359 Speaker 1: brother Eric holding fast her hand, each man felt like 398 00:24:58,400 --> 00:25:02,240 Speaker 1: a murderer when he beheld her face, whereon was no tear, 399 00:25:03,080 --> 00:25:06,119 Speaker 1: wherein was no writhing of muscle, twitching of nerve, wherein 400 00:25:06,280 --> 00:25:09,119 Speaker 1: was no sorrow mark of her own, but only the 401 00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:12,119 Speaker 1: sorrow mark which God sent her, and which she must 402 00:25:12,200 --> 00:25:16,840 Speaker 1: perforce whear. Yet they had not caught eagerly at her offer. 403 00:25:17,600 --> 00:25:20,000 Speaker 1: They had said, at first, almost to a man, nay, 404 00:25:20,080 --> 00:25:22,920 Speaker 1: this thing shall not be let us die altogether, rather 405 00:25:23,000 --> 00:25:25,960 Speaker 1: than this. Yet, as they sat and said this to 406 00:25:26,040 --> 00:25:28,800 Speaker 1: each man of the council, came floating dim memories of 407 00:25:28,840 --> 00:25:32,840 Speaker 1: that curse of the burned women and its remedy. To 408 00:25:32,960 --> 00:25:36,280 Speaker 1: many it ran rhythmically, an old song, better known by 409 00:25:36,280 --> 00:25:39,680 Speaker 1: the music than the words heard once and again long ago, 410 00:25:40,240 --> 00:25:44,080 Speaker 1: when the gusty wind overmastered the chestnut boughs and strewed 411 00:25:44,119 --> 00:25:49,359 Speaker 1: the smooth sward with their star leaves. With all came 412 00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:52,679 Speaker 1: thoughts to each man, partly selfishly, partly wise and just, 413 00:25:53,119 --> 00:25:56,560 Speaker 1: concerning his own wife and children, concerning children yet unborn, 414 00:25:57,240 --> 00:25:59,600 Speaker 1: thoughts too of the glory of the old name, all 415 00:25:59,640 --> 00:26:02,200 Speaker 1: that had and suffered and done, that the glorious free 416 00:26:02,240 --> 00:26:06,520 Speaker 1: land might yet be a nation. And the spirit of hope, 417 00:26:07,040 --> 00:26:10,119 Speaker 1: never dead but sleeping, only woke up within their hearts. 418 00:26:11,200 --> 00:26:13,560 Speaker 1: We may yet be a people, they said to themselves, 419 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:19,159 Speaker 1: if we can but get breathing time. And as they 420 00:26:19,160 --> 00:26:22,080 Speaker 1: thought these things and doubted, shure rose up in the 421 00:26:22,119 --> 00:26:24,840 Speaker 1: midst of them, and said, you are right. In what 422 00:26:24,880 --> 00:26:28,520 Speaker 1: you think, countrymen, and she is right. She is altogether 423 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:33,240 Speaker 1: good and noble. Sent her forth. Then, with one look 424 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:35,600 Speaker 1: of utter despair at her, as she stood statue like, 425 00:26:35,920 --> 00:26:38,000 Speaker 1: he left the council, lest he should fall down and 426 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:40,399 Speaker 1: die in the midst of them, he said. Yet he 427 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:44,439 Speaker 1: died not then, but lived for many years afterwards. But 428 00:26:44,480 --> 00:26:46,720 Speaker 1: they rose from their seats, and when they were armed, 429 00:26:46,920 --> 00:26:49,679 Speaker 1: and she was royally arrayed, they went with her, leading 430 00:26:49,720 --> 00:26:52,760 Speaker 1: her through the dear streets, whence you always saw the 431 00:26:52,800 --> 00:26:56,240 Speaker 1: great pine shadowed mountains. She went away from all that 432 00:26:56,320 --> 00:26:58,600 Speaker 1: was dear to her, to go and sit a crowned 433 00:26:58,680 --> 00:27:02,160 Speaker 1: queen in the dreary Monde marble Palace, whose outer walls 434 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:05,480 Speaker 1: rose up from the weary hearted sea. She could not 435 00:27:05,640 --> 00:27:09,359 Speaker 1: think she durst not. She feared if she did that 436 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:12,320 Speaker 1: she would curse her beauty, almost curse the name of love. 437 00:27:12,720 --> 00:27:15,439 Speaker 1: Curse Sure. Though she knew he was right for not 438 00:27:15,600 --> 00:27:21,679 Speaker 1: slaying her, she feared she might curse God. So she 439 00:27:21,760 --> 00:27:25,320 Speaker 1: thought not at all, steeping her senses utterly, and forgetfulness 440 00:27:25,359 --> 00:27:29,480 Speaker 1: of the happy past, destroying all anticipation of the future. Yet, 441 00:27:29,520 --> 00:27:31,800 Speaker 1: as they left the city, amidst the tears of women 442 00:27:32,080 --> 00:27:35,400 Speaker 1: and fixed sorrowful gaze of men. She turned round once 443 00:27:35,440 --> 00:27:38,960 Speaker 1: and stretched her arms out involuntarily, like a dumb, senseless thing, 444 00:27:39,440 --> 00:27:42,080 Speaker 1: towards the place where she was born, and where her 445 00:27:42,080 --> 00:27:44,920 Speaker 1: life grew happier day by day, and where his arms 446 00:27:44,960 --> 00:27:48,480 Speaker 1: first crept round about her. She turned away and thought, 447 00:27:48,560 --> 00:27:52,000 Speaker 1: but in a cold, speculative manner, how it was possible 448 00:27:52,520 --> 00:27:55,600 Speaker 1: that she was bearing this sorrow, as she often before 449 00:27:55,640 --> 00:27:58,960 Speaker 1: had wondered when slight things vexed her over much, how 450 00:27:58,960 --> 00:28:02,479 Speaker 1: people had such sorrow? Rosen lived, and almost doubted if 451 00:28:02,520 --> 00:28:04,959 Speaker 1: the pain was so much greater in great sorrows than 452 00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,000 Speaker 1: in small troubles, or whether the nobleness was only greater, 453 00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:15,439 Speaker 1: the pain not sharper, but more lingering. Half way towards 454 00:28:15,520 --> 00:28:18,920 Speaker 1: the camp, the king's people met her, and over trampled 455 00:28:18,960 --> 00:28:22,080 Speaker 1: ground where they had fought so fiercely, but a little 456 00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,199 Speaker 1: time before, they spread breadth of golden cloth that her 457 00:28:26,200 --> 00:28:28,960 Speaker 1: feet might not touch the arms of her dead countrymen 458 00:28:29,760 --> 00:28:33,399 Speaker 1: or their brave bodies. And so they came at last, 459 00:28:33,440 --> 00:28:36,800 Speaker 1: with many trumpet blasts, to the king's tent, who stood 460 00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:38,840 Speaker 1: at the door of it to welcome his bride that 461 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:41,920 Speaker 1: was to be a noble man truly to look on 462 00:28:42,120 --> 00:28:45,960 Speaker 1: kindly and genialized. The red blood sprang up all over 463 00:28:46,000 --> 00:28:48,760 Speaker 1: his face when she came near, and she looked back 464 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:52,000 Speaker 1: no more, but bowed before him, almost to the ground, 465 00:28:52,520 --> 00:28:54,880 Speaker 1: and would have knelt, but that he caught her in 466 00:28:54,920 --> 00:28:58,240 Speaker 1: his arms and kissed her. She was pale now no more, 467 00:28:59,120 --> 00:29:02,080 Speaker 1: and the king, as he gazed delightedly at her, did 468 00:29:02,080 --> 00:29:05,280 Speaker 1: not notice that sorrow mark, which was plain enough to 469 00:29:05,320 --> 00:29:10,120 Speaker 1: her own people. And so the trumpet sounded again, one 470 00:29:10,200 --> 00:29:12,920 Speaker 1: long peal that seemed to make all the air real 471 00:29:13,000 --> 00:29:17,120 Speaker 1: and quiver, and the soldiers and Lord shouted Hurrah for 472 00:29:17,240 --> 00:29:22,200 Speaker 1: the peace Queen Cecela. And that's where we're gonna leave 473 00:29:22,240 --> 00:29:27,120 Speaker 1: this story for this week. Cecilla has now sacrificed herself 474 00:29:27,120 --> 00:29:32,240 Speaker 1: and left her family to go marry the king. What's 475 00:29:32,280 --> 00:29:35,840 Speaker 1: gonna happen? Well, I'm not gonna tell you. You can either 476 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,960 Speaker 1: look it up, I suppose, or you can wait a week. 477 00:29:39,280 --> 00:29:40,840 Speaker 1: Or maybe it's the future and you don't have to 478 00:29:40,840 --> 00:29:42,880 Speaker 1: wait a week and you just binge listen to podcasts 479 00:29:43,040 --> 00:29:46,720 Speaker 1: like a normal person. Anyway, I'll talk to you all 480 00:29:46,760 --> 00:29:50,360 Speaker 1: next week. Oh, I'm Margaret Kiljoy. I have a book out. 481 00:29:50,840 --> 00:29:53,640 Speaker 1: I'm on tour right now, Okay, well, right now I'm 482 00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:55,040 Speaker 1: at home because I drove home to see my dog 483 00:29:55,080 --> 00:29:56,720 Speaker 1: because my dog could only come on the first couldn't 484 00:29:56,760 --> 00:29:58,000 Speaker 1: come on the first leg of the tour. But he's 485 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,160 Speaker 1: gonna be with me on the rest of the tour. 486 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:00,880 Speaker 1: But I went to all this that my dog wouldn't 487 00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:03,040 Speaker 1: be really excited about on the first couple of days, 488 00:30:03,240 --> 00:30:05,240 Speaker 1: and so now I'm reunited. I know that's what you 489 00:30:05,280 --> 00:30:08,760 Speaker 1: all are most concerned about, But don't worry. I'm back 490 00:30:08,880 --> 00:30:10,800 Speaker 1: home with Rentroll. But I am on tour. I am 491 00:30:10,800 --> 00:30:12,960 Speaker 1: touring with a book called The Sapling Cage, and I 492 00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:15,080 Speaker 1: wrote a bunch of folklore said in the same world 493 00:30:15,120 --> 00:30:17,880 Speaker 1: as that book, and so I'm reading. If you want 494 00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,080 Speaker 1: to come hear me read stories, and notice that I 495 00:30:21,160 --> 00:30:24,120 Speaker 1: clearly read fables and old stories a lot. You can 496 00:30:24,120 --> 00:30:27,320 Speaker 1: come hear me. Do it. I will be traveling all 497 00:30:27,360 --> 00:30:29,920 Speaker 1: over the United States. If I don't come to your city, 498 00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:31,959 Speaker 1: it's because I personally have a problem with you, and 499 00:30:32,000 --> 00:30:34,600 Speaker 1: that is the reason I did not come. But I 500 00:30:34,680 --> 00:30:36,920 Speaker 1: will be. Let's see, I was in Baltimore yesterday at 501 00:30:36,920 --> 00:30:38,280 Speaker 1: the time. You listen to this, If you listen to it, 502 00:30:38,320 --> 00:30:42,000 Speaker 1: on time. I will be in Brooklyn today if you're 503 00:30:42,040 --> 00:30:45,600 Speaker 1: listening to this, and then I'll be in Boston the 504 00:30:45,600 --> 00:30:49,360 Speaker 1: weekend after followed by Portland, Maine, followed by Rockland, Maine, 505 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:50,840 Speaker 1: and then after that, I'm going to go on a 506 00:30:50,880 --> 00:30:53,400 Speaker 1: huge ass tour. I'm going to go up to Pittsburgh 507 00:30:53,400 --> 00:30:55,840 Speaker 1: and Cleveland and maybe Buffalo. I'm not sure. Don't hold 508 00:30:55,880 --> 00:30:57,400 Speaker 1: me to that. I just started talking to someone about 509 00:30:57,400 --> 00:30:58,920 Speaker 1: that today. And I'm going to go ann Harbor and 510 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:01,280 Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Madison, Wisconsin. I'm going to 511 00:31:01,320 --> 00:31:03,320 Speaker 1: go to Minneapolis. I'm going to go to Lincoln, Nebraska. 512 00:31:03,360 --> 00:31:05,640 Speaker 1: I'm going to go to Fort Collins, Colorado. I'm going 513 00:31:05,680 --> 00:31:07,120 Speaker 1: to go to Fruit of Colorado. I'm going to go 514 00:31:07,120 --> 00:31:09,480 Speaker 1: to Salt Lake City. I might go somewhere between Salt 515 00:31:09,520 --> 00:31:11,680 Speaker 1: Lake City and Quilseleine, Washington, but who's to know. I'm 516 00:31:11,680 --> 00:31:13,600 Speaker 1: going to be in quose to Washington. I'm going to 517 00:31:13,640 --> 00:31:15,880 Speaker 1: be in Portland, Oregon, where I'll be speaking with friend 518 00:31:15,880 --> 00:31:17,520 Speaker 1: of the pod, Robert Evans, friend of the pod. He's 519 00:31:17,520 --> 00:31:19,680 Speaker 1: on the pods. I think his name is in the 520 00:31:19,760 --> 00:31:23,239 Speaker 1: official title of the pod. November first, I'll be at 521 00:31:23,280 --> 00:31:27,560 Speaker 1: Powell's Books with Robert Evans and also be at other 522 00:31:27,600 --> 00:31:29,160 Speaker 1: places because then I have to get back home. But 523 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:30,560 Speaker 1: I haven't booked that part of the tour yet, so 524 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:31,960 Speaker 1: you're just going to have to listen to the future 525 00:31:32,400 --> 00:31:34,360 Speaker 1: or look at my substack where I'll be talking more 526 00:31:34,400 --> 00:31:37,640 Speaker 1: about being on tour and you should come. If I 527 00:31:37,680 --> 00:31:41,200 Speaker 1: talk fast enough then it sounds exciting. That's my theory. 528 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:45,760 Speaker 1: I'll talk to you next week. It could Happen here 529 00:31:45,800 --> 00:31:48,480 Speaker 1: as a production of cool Zone Media. 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