1 00:00:01,760 --> 00:00:12,200 Speaker 1: Cool Zone Media, Cool Zone Media book Club. That's always 2 00:00:12,240 --> 00:00:14,320 Speaker 1: been our introduction to Cool Zone Media book Club. Hi, 3 00:00:14,680 --> 00:00:17,680 Speaker 1: I'm your host, Margaret Kiljoy. Every week on Cool Zone 4 00:00:17,680 --> 00:00:21,439 Speaker 1: Media book Club, I bring you stories so you don't 5 00:00:21,480 --> 00:00:23,240 Speaker 1: have to do the reading, because I do it for you. 6 00:00:23,960 --> 00:00:28,560 Speaker 1: I think that is our actual official slogan. But if 7 00:00:28,600 --> 00:00:30,800 Speaker 1: you're checking in, if you're tuning in now, you're tuning 8 00:00:30,800 --> 00:00:33,479 Speaker 1: into part two of a story, because part one was 9 00:00:33,560 --> 00:00:36,879 Speaker 1: last week. In part one of Zvend and his Brethren, 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:40,519 Speaker 1: we haven't even met Zvend of the Brethren having instead, 11 00:00:40,520 --> 00:00:43,640 Speaker 1: we met Cecilla in this story by William Morris written 12 00:00:43,680 --> 00:00:45,760 Speaker 1: in eighteen fifty six or published in eighteen fifty six, 13 00:00:45,760 --> 00:00:48,080 Speaker 1: who knows when you fucking wrote it. Probably eighteen fifty six. 14 00:00:49,680 --> 00:00:53,840 Speaker 1: We met Secilla, who lived in a country holding back 15 00:00:53,880 --> 00:00:57,680 Speaker 1: an empire and they were losing badly and she sacrificed 16 00:00:57,680 --> 00:01:01,480 Speaker 1: her own happiness to go be with king and she's 17 00:01:01,480 --> 00:01:04,319 Speaker 1: not happy about it. And that's where she's at right now. 18 00:01:05,040 --> 00:01:07,640 Speaker 1: And I'm reading this story because I think it inspires 19 00:01:07,640 --> 00:01:10,559 Speaker 1: a ton of stuff that comes later. And I see 20 00:01:10,720 --> 00:01:13,400 Speaker 1: almost no one talking about the story. I was like, Dear, 21 00:01:13,600 --> 00:01:17,080 Speaker 1: the internet is Vend and his Brethren a big deal 22 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,840 Speaker 1: in literature, and everyone knows about it because it's William 23 00:01:19,840 --> 00:01:23,440 Speaker 1: Morris and clearly is an inspiration for those who walked 24 00:01:23,480 --> 00:01:27,319 Speaker 1: away from omelass and the internet was like, here's two 25 00:01:27,400 --> 00:01:31,200 Speaker 1: paragraphs of one person talking about his vend and his brethren, 26 00:01:31,720 --> 00:01:35,120 Speaker 1: So you talking about it with your friends is the 27 00:01:35,120 --> 00:01:38,319 Speaker 1: first talking about it because we discovered it, much like 28 00:01:38,840 --> 00:01:40,840 Speaker 1: I'm attempting to make some sort of vague reference to 29 00:01:41,040 --> 00:01:44,120 Speaker 1: colonialism and how people pretend to discover things that clearly 30 00:01:44,560 --> 00:01:46,440 Speaker 1: people have known about, Like William Morris is not a 31 00:01:46,520 --> 00:01:49,640 Speaker 1: minor figure in literature. I'm sure other people have talked 32 00:01:49,680 --> 00:01:54,760 Speaker 1: about it. I just couldn't find anything. But we're gonna 33 00:01:54,960 --> 00:01:57,080 Speaker 1: talk about it a little bit after we finish reading it. 34 00:01:57,240 --> 00:01:58,920 Speaker 1: But first we're going to finish reading it, and by we, 35 00:01:59,720 --> 00:02:04,120 Speaker 1: I'm me, okay, this story kind of fast forwards. You'll 36 00:02:04,160 --> 00:02:09,840 Speaker 1: probably notice that, Come, Harold, said a beautiful golden haired 37 00:02:09,840 --> 00:02:12,600 Speaker 1: boy to one who is plainly his younger brother. Come 38 00:02:12,840 --> 00:02:15,320 Speaker 1: let us leave Robert here by the forge to show 39 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:19,840 Speaker 1: our lady mother this beautiful thing. Sweet master armorer, farewell 40 00:02:20,800 --> 00:02:24,080 Speaker 1: are you going to the queen? Then? Said the armorer yay, 41 00:02:24,240 --> 00:02:28,519 Speaker 1: said the boy, looking wonderingly at the strong craftsman's eager face. 42 00:02:29,240 --> 00:02:31,600 Speaker 1: But nay, let me look at you a while longer. 43 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:33,800 Speaker 1: You remind me so much of what I loved long 44 00:02:33,840 --> 00:02:37,040 Speaker 1: ago in my own land. Stay awhile till your other 45 00:02:37,120 --> 00:02:41,360 Speaker 1: brother goes with you. Well, I will stay and think 46 00:02:41,400 --> 00:02:43,519 Speaker 1: of what you have been telling me. I do not 47 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,919 Speaker 1: feel as it I should ever think of anything else 48 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:50,840 Speaker 1: for long together, as long as I live. So he 49 00:02:50,919 --> 00:02:54,079 Speaker 1: sat down again on an old battered anvil and seemed, 50 00:02:54,120 --> 00:02:56,040 Speaker 1: with his bright eyes to be holding something in the 51 00:02:56,120 --> 00:02:59,520 Speaker 1: land of dreams, A gallant dream, it was, he dreamed for. 52 00:02:59,600 --> 00:03:02,160 Speaker 1: He saw himself, with his brothers and friends about him, 53 00:03:02,200 --> 00:03:05,680 Speaker 1: seated on a throne, the justice king in all the earth, 54 00:03:06,200 --> 00:03:09,480 Speaker 1: his people, the loviness of all people. He saw the 55 00:03:09,520 --> 00:03:13,200 Speaker 1: ambassadors of the restored nation that had been unjustly dealt 56 00:03:13,280 --> 00:03:17,079 Speaker 1: a long time ago, everywhere, love and peace, if possible, 57 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:21,840 Speaker 1: justice and truth at all events. Alas, he knew not 58 00:03:21,960 --> 00:03:25,600 Speaker 1: that vengeance so long delayed must fall at last in 59 00:03:25,680 --> 00:03:28,680 Speaker 1: his lifetime. He knew not that it takes longer to 60 00:03:28,720 --> 00:03:31,960 Speaker 1: restore that whose growth has been through age and age 61 00:03:32,000 --> 00:03:35,360 Speaker 1: than the few years of a lifetime. Yet was the 62 00:03:35,400 --> 00:03:39,160 Speaker 1: reality good, if not as good as the dream? Presently, 63 00:03:39,200 --> 00:03:44,000 Speaker 1: his twin brother Robert woke him from that dream, calling out, now, brothers, Vend, 64 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:48,160 Speaker 1: are we really ready see here? But stop kneel first there? 65 00:03:48,480 --> 00:03:51,280 Speaker 1: Now I am the bishop. And he pulled his brother 66 00:03:51,400 --> 00:03:54,040 Speaker 1: down on his knees and put on his head, where 67 00:03:54,080 --> 00:03:57,200 Speaker 1: it fitted loosely enough. Now hanging down from left to right, 68 00:03:57,520 --> 00:04:01,240 Speaker 1: an iron crown fantastically wrought, which he himself, having just 69 00:04:01,280 --> 00:04:04,600 Speaker 1: finished it, had taken out of the water, cool and dripping. 70 00:04:05,880 --> 00:04:08,560 Speaker 1: Robert and Harold laughed loud when they saw the crown 71 00:04:08,680 --> 00:04:11,680 Speaker 1: hanging all askew, and the great drops rolling from it 72 00:04:11,720 --> 00:04:14,960 Speaker 1: into Ven's eyes and down his cheeks, looking like tears. 73 00:04:15,400 --> 00:04:18,120 Speaker 1: Not so, Svend. He rose, holding the crown level on 74 00:04:18,200 --> 00:04:21,039 Speaker 1: his head, holding it back so that it pressed against 75 00:04:21,120 --> 00:04:23,960 Speaker 1: his brow hard and first dashing the drops to left 76 00:04:23,960 --> 00:04:26,520 Speaker 1: and right, caught his brother by the hand and said, 77 00:04:27,440 --> 00:04:31,479 Speaker 1: may I keep it, Robert, I shall wear it someday. Yeay, 78 00:04:31,560 --> 00:04:33,600 Speaker 1: said the other, But it is a poor thing. Better 79 00:04:33,680 --> 00:04:36,200 Speaker 1: let shore put it in the furnace again and make 80 00:04:36,240 --> 00:04:40,839 Speaker 1: it into sword hilts. Thereupon they began to go Zvend, 81 00:04:40,920 --> 00:04:43,599 Speaker 1: holding the crown in his hand. But as they were going, 82 00:04:43,640 --> 00:04:46,720 Speaker 1: Shore called out, yet, I will sell my dagger at 83 00:04:46,760 --> 00:04:49,760 Speaker 1: a price, Prince Vend, even as you wished at first, 84 00:04:50,120 --> 00:04:53,680 Speaker 1: rather than give it to you for nothing. Well for 85 00:04:53,800 --> 00:04:56,760 Speaker 1: what said Svend, somewhat shortly, for he thought Sure was 86 00:04:56,800 --> 00:04:59,480 Speaker 1: going back from his promise, which was ugly to him. 87 00:05:00,200 --> 00:05:03,119 Speaker 1: Be not angry, Prince, said the armorer. Only I pray 88 00:05:03,160 --> 00:05:05,640 Speaker 1: you to satisfy this whim of mine. It is the 89 00:05:05,640 --> 00:05:08,200 Speaker 1: first favor I've asked of you. You will ask the 90 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:12,560 Speaker 1: fair noble lady, your mother from Shore the smith if 91 00:05:12,560 --> 00:05:17,120 Speaker 1: she is happy. Now, willingly, sweet master Sure, if it 92 00:05:17,160 --> 00:05:22,599 Speaker 1: pleases you, farewell, And with happy young faces they went away, 93 00:05:23,040 --> 00:05:25,560 Speaker 1: And when they were gone, Sure, from a secret place, 94 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:28,560 Speaker 1: drew out various weapons and armor, and began to work 95 00:05:28,600 --> 00:05:34,480 Speaker 1: at them. Having first drawn bolton bar of his workshop carefully, Svend, 96 00:05:34,960 --> 00:05:38,080 Speaker 1: with Harold and Robert, his two brethren, went their ways 97 00:05:38,120 --> 00:05:40,159 Speaker 1: to the Queen and found her sitting alone in a 98 00:05:40,200 --> 00:05:43,120 Speaker 1: fair court of the palace, full of flowers, with a 99 00:05:43,160 --> 00:05:46,400 Speaker 1: marble cloister round about it. And when she saw them coming, 100 00:05:46,480 --> 00:05:50,040 Speaker 1: she rose up to meet them, her three fair sons. 101 00:05:50,839 --> 00:05:54,000 Speaker 1: Truly as that right royal woman bent over them lovingly. 102 00:05:54,040 --> 00:05:57,320 Speaker 1: There seemed to be little need of Shore's question, so 103 00:05:57,440 --> 00:06:00,240 Speaker 1: Sven showed her his dagger, but not the crown, and 104 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,080 Speaker 1: she asked many questions concerning Sure the smith, about his 105 00:06:04,160 --> 00:06:07,600 Speaker 1: way of talking, and his face, the color of his hair, 106 00:06:07,680 --> 00:06:10,479 Speaker 1: even till the boys wondered. She questioned them so closely, 107 00:06:10,520 --> 00:06:13,680 Speaker 1: with beaming eyes and glowing cheeks, so that Svend thought 108 00:06:14,320 --> 00:06:16,839 Speaker 1: he had never before seen his mother look so beautiful. 109 00:06:17,960 --> 00:06:21,000 Speaker 1: Then Sven said, and mother, don't be angry with Sure, 110 00:06:21,080 --> 00:06:23,599 Speaker 1: will you, because he sent a message to you by 111 00:06:23,640 --> 00:06:28,440 Speaker 1: me angry and straightway. Her soul was wandering where her 112 00:06:28,480 --> 00:06:30,920 Speaker 1: body could not come, and for a moment or two 113 00:06:31,000 --> 00:06:33,320 Speaker 1: she was living as before, with him close by her 114 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:37,279 Speaker 1: in the old mountain. Land. Well, mother, he wanted me 115 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,800 Speaker 1: to ask if you were happy? Now did he' s Vend? 116 00:06:42,080 --> 00:06:44,400 Speaker 1: This man with brown hair grizzled as you say it 117 00:06:44,480 --> 00:06:47,680 Speaker 1: is now? Is his hair soft? Then? This shore going 118 00:06:47,760 --> 00:06:50,480 Speaker 1: down on to his shoulders and waves, and his eyes 119 00:06:50,480 --> 00:06:53,200 Speaker 1: do they grow steadily as if lighted up from his heart? 120 00:06:53,680 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 1: And how does he speak? Did you not tell me 121 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,320 Speaker 1: that his words led you whether you would or no? 122 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:02,720 Speaker 1: And to dreamland? Ah? Well, tell him I am happy 123 00:07:02,760 --> 00:07:05,200 Speaker 1: but not so happy as we shall be as we were. 124 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:08,279 Speaker 1: And so you, son Robert, are getting to be quite 125 00:07:08,279 --> 00:07:11,520 Speaker 1: a cunning smith. But do you think you will ever 126 00:07:11,560 --> 00:07:15,400 Speaker 1: beat sure? Ah? Mother, No, he said, there is something 127 00:07:15,440 --> 00:07:17,880 Speaker 1: with him that makes him seem quite infinitely beyond all 128 00:07:17,880 --> 00:07:21,080 Speaker 1: other workmen I have ever heard of. And if you 129 00:07:21,200 --> 00:07:25,840 Speaker 1: want to buy products from the finest work people in 130 00:07:25,880 --> 00:07:29,760 Speaker 1: all the realm, I suggest the sponsor of this podcast 131 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:34,600 Speaker 1: medieval weaponry. No one's sad when they have a sword 132 00:07:34,960 --> 00:07:40,000 Speaker 1: or a dagger, mace, morning star, flail, spear spears are 133 00:07:40,080 --> 00:07:44,720 Speaker 1: quite lovely. We also probably have other ads. Let's find out, 134 00:07:55,240 --> 00:08:02,400 Speaker 1: and we're back memory. Coming from that dreamland smoke upon 135 00:08:02,440 --> 00:08:05,040 Speaker 1: her heart more than the others. She blushed like a 136 00:08:05,040 --> 00:08:08,720 Speaker 1: young girl and said, hesitatingly, does he work with his 137 00:08:08,800 --> 00:08:11,200 Speaker 1: left hand, son, Robert? For I have heard that some 138 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:13,960 Speaker 1: men do so. But in her heart she remembered how 139 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,560 Speaker 1: once long ago, in the old mountain country, in her 140 00:08:16,560 --> 00:08:19,920 Speaker 1: father's house, someone had said that only men who were 141 00:08:19,960 --> 00:08:23,800 Speaker 1: born so could do cunningly with their left hand. And 142 00:08:23,840 --> 00:08:26,720 Speaker 1: how sure then quite a boy had said, well I 143 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:28,920 Speaker 1: will try, And how in a month or two he 144 00:08:28,960 --> 00:08:31,480 Speaker 1: had come to her with an armlet of silver, very 145 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:34,760 Speaker 1: curiously wrought, which he had done with his own left hand. 146 00:08:35,840 --> 00:08:39,160 Speaker 1: So Robert said, yea, mother, he works with his left 147 00:08:39,160 --> 00:08:41,760 Speaker 1: hand almost as much as with his right. And sometimes 148 00:08:41,800 --> 00:08:43,880 Speaker 1: I have seen him change the hammer suddenly from his 149 00:08:43,960 --> 00:08:46,000 Speaker 1: right to his left, with a kind of half smile, 150 00:08:46,520 --> 00:08:49,880 Speaker 1: as one who could say, can I not then? And 151 00:08:50,000 --> 00:08:52,839 Speaker 1: this more when he does smith's work in metal than 152 00:08:52,840 --> 00:08:55,640 Speaker 1: when he works in marble. And once I heard him say, 153 00:08:55,679 --> 00:08:58,400 Speaker 1: when he did so, I wonder where my first left 154 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:03,720 Speaker 1: hand work is, ah, I abide my time. I wonder, also, mother, 155 00:09:04,559 --> 00:09:07,840 Speaker 1: what he meant by that. She answered no word, but 156 00:09:07,840 --> 00:09:10,880 Speaker 1: shook her arm free from its broad sleeve, and something 157 00:09:10,920 --> 00:09:14,080 Speaker 1: glittered on it near her wrist, something wrought out of silver, 158 00:09:14,640 --> 00:09:19,880 Speaker 1: set with quaint and uncouthly cut stones of little value. 159 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:24,520 Speaker 1: In the council chamber among the lords sat Vend with 160 00:09:24,559 --> 00:09:27,800 Speaker 1: his six brethren, he chief of awe in wielding of 161 00:09:27,840 --> 00:09:31,360 Speaker 1: sword or axe, in the government of people, in drawing 162 00:09:31,400 --> 00:09:33,960 Speaker 1: the love of men and women to him, perfect in 163 00:09:34,000 --> 00:09:37,160 Speaker 1: face and body, and wisdom and strength, was Vennd. Next 164 00:09:37,160 --> 00:09:40,160 Speaker 1: to him sat Robert, cunning and working of marble or 165 00:09:40,160 --> 00:09:43,080 Speaker 1: wood or brass, all things he could make to look 166 00:09:43,120 --> 00:09:45,560 Speaker 1: as if they lived from the sweep of an angel's 167 00:09:45,600 --> 00:09:48,600 Speaker 1: wing down to the slipping of a little field mouse 168 00:09:48,640 --> 00:09:51,880 Speaker 1: from under the sheath in the harvest time. Then there 169 00:09:51,920 --> 00:09:54,959 Speaker 1: was Harold, who knew concerning all the stars of heaven 170 00:09:55,040 --> 00:09:58,280 Speaker 1: and flowers of earth. Richard, who drew men's hearts from 171 00:09:58,320 --> 00:10:01,040 Speaker 1: their bodies with the words that swung to and fro 172 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:05,000 Speaker 1: in his glorious rhymes. William, to whom the air of 173 00:10:05,080 --> 00:10:08,840 Speaker 1: heaven seemed a servant when the harpstrings quivered underneath his fingers. 174 00:10:09,400 --> 00:10:12,080 Speaker 1: There were the two sailor brothers, who the year before, 175 00:10:12,440 --> 00:10:14,960 Speaker 1: young though they were, had come back from a long 176 00:10:15,040 --> 00:10:17,760 Speaker 1: perilous voyage with news of an island they had found 177 00:10:17,840 --> 00:10:21,360 Speaker 1: long and long away to the west, larger than any 178 00:10:21,640 --> 00:10:24,240 Speaker 1: that his people knew of, but very fair and good, 179 00:10:24,800 --> 00:10:29,840 Speaker 1: though uninhabited. But now over all this noble brotherhood, with 180 00:10:29,960 --> 00:10:34,120 Speaker 1: all its various gifts, hung one cloud of sorrow. Their mother, 181 00:10:34,760 --> 00:10:39,000 Speaker 1: the peace Queen Cecilia, was dead, She who had taught 182 00:10:39,040 --> 00:10:42,400 Speaker 1: them truth and nobleness so well. She was never to 183 00:10:42,440 --> 00:10:46,280 Speaker 1: see the beginning of the end that they would work. Truly, 184 00:10:46,360 --> 00:10:49,959 Speaker 1: it seemed sad. There sat the seven brothers in the 185 00:10:50,000 --> 00:10:53,800 Speaker 1: council chamber, waiting for the king, speaking no word, only 186 00:10:53,840 --> 00:10:57,400 Speaker 1: thinking drearily. Under the pavement of the great church, Cesllah 187 00:10:57,480 --> 00:11:00,400 Speaker 1: lay and by the side of her tomb stood men, 188 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:06,760 Speaker 1: old men, both Valdemar the King, and sure so the King. 189 00:11:07,520 --> 00:11:09,559 Speaker 1: After that he had gazed awhile on the carve and 190 00:11:09,640 --> 00:11:13,280 Speaker 1: face of her he had loved so well, said at last, 191 00:11:15,160 --> 00:11:18,280 Speaker 1: and now, sir carver, you must carve me also to 192 00:11:18,400 --> 00:11:21,280 Speaker 1: lie there. And he pointed to the vacant spot by 193 00:11:21,280 --> 00:11:25,839 Speaker 1: the side of the fair alabaster figure. Oh King said sure, 194 00:11:25,960 --> 00:11:28,240 Speaker 1: except for a very few strokes on steel, I have 195 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,560 Speaker 1: done work. Now, having carved the queen there, I cannot 196 00:11:31,559 --> 00:11:34,880 Speaker 1: do this thing for you. What was? It? Sent a 197 00:11:34,920 --> 00:11:37,680 Speaker 1: sharp pang of bitterest suspicion through the very heart of 198 00:11:37,720 --> 00:11:40,920 Speaker 1: the poor old man. He looked steadfastedly at him a 199 00:11:40,960 --> 00:11:43,839 Speaker 1: moment or two, as if he would know all secrets. 200 00:11:44,200 --> 00:11:46,640 Speaker 1: He could not. He had not the strength of life 201 00:11:46,760 --> 00:11:49,040 Speaker 1: enough to get to the bottom of things. Doubt vanished 202 00:11:49,080 --> 00:11:52,840 Speaker 1: soon from his heart and his face under Shore's pitying gaze, 203 00:11:53,160 --> 00:11:59,160 Speaker 1: he said, then, perhaps I shall be my own statue. 204 00:11:59,200 --> 00:12:01,200 Speaker 1: And there with all he sat down on the edge 205 00:12:01,240 --> 00:12:04,120 Speaker 1: of the low marble tomb and laid his right arm 206 00:12:04,200 --> 00:12:07,360 Speaker 1: across her breast. He fixed his eyes on the eastern 207 00:12:07,360 --> 00:12:11,240 Speaker 1: belt of windows, and sat quite motionless and silent. And 208 00:12:11,280 --> 00:12:16,040 Speaker 1: he never knew that she loved him, not but sure 209 00:12:16,280 --> 00:12:19,880 Speaker 1: when he gazed at him, awhile stole away quietly as 210 00:12:19,880 --> 00:12:22,200 Speaker 1: we do when we fear to wake a sleeper. And 211 00:12:22,280 --> 00:12:25,160 Speaker 1: the king never turned his head, but still sat there, 212 00:12:25,200 --> 00:12:29,360 Speaker 1: never moving, scarce breathing. It seemed Shore stood in his 213 00:12:29,440 --> 00:12:32,800 Speaker 1: own great hall, for his house was large. He stood 214 00:12:32,840 --> 00:12:36,040 Speaker 1: before the dais, saw a fair sight the work of 215 00:12:36,080 --> 00:12:42,000 Speaker 1: his own hands. For fronting him against the wall were 216 00:12:42,040 --> 00:12:46,480 Speaker 1: seven thrones, and behind them a cloth of samite of purple, 217 00:12:46,880 --> 00:12:50,360 Speaker 1: wrought with golden stars, and barred across from right to 218 00:12:50,480 --> 00:12:53,680 Speaker 1: left with long bars of silver and crimson, and edged 219 00:12:53,679 --> 00:12:58,080 Speaker 1: below with melancholy fading green like a september sunset. And 220 00:12:58,200 --> 00:13:01,200 Speaker 1: opposite each throne was a glitter suit of armor, wrought 221 00:13:01,280 --> 00:13:04,280 Speaker 1: wonderfully in bright steel, except that on the breast of 222 00:13:04,320 --> 00:13:07,960 Speaker 1: each suit was a face worked marvelously in enamel, the 223 00:13:08,000 --> 00:13:11,680 Speaker 1: face of Cecilla, in a glory of golden hair, and 224 00:13:11,760 --> 00:13:14,079 Speaker 1: the glory of that gold spread away from the breast 225 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:17,160 Speaker 1: on all sides and ran conningly along with the steel 226 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:20,120 Speaker 1: rings in such a way as it is hard even 227 00:13:20,160 --> 00:13:23,600 Speaker 1: to imagine. Moreover, on the crest of each helm was 228 00:13:23,640 --> 00:13:27,800 Speaker 1: wrought the phoenix, the never dying bird, the only creature 229 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:30,840 Speaker 1: that knows the sun. And by each suit lay a 230 00:13:30,880 --> 00:13:35,120 Speaker 1: gleaming sword, terrible to look at, steel from pommel to point, 231 00:13:35,559 --> 00:13:39,400 Speaker 1: but wrought along the blade in burnished gold that out flashed. 232 00:13:39,480 --> 00:13:43,160 Speaker 1: The gleam of the steel was written in fantastic letters. 233 00:13:43,200 --> 00:13:52,640 Speaker 1: The word westward and also gleaming steel are medieval weapons. 234 00:13:52,720 --> 00:13:56,480 Speaker 1: Here they are the ads that are only for medieval weaponry. 235 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:13,760 Speaker 1: And were back so sure gazed till he heard footsteps coming. 236 00:14:13,800 --> 00:14:16,240 Speaker 1: Then he turned to meet them. And Svend and his 237 00:14:16,320 --> 00:14:19,720 Speaker 1: brethren sat silent in the council chamber. So they heard 238 00:14:19,760 --> 00:14:22,880 Speaker 1: a great noise and clamor of the people arise through 239 00:14:22,920 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 1: all the streets, and then they rose to see what 240 00:14:25,160 --> 00:14:28,400 Speaker 1: it might be. Meanwhile, on the low marble tomb, under 241 00:14:28,400 --> 00:14:31,360 Speaker 1: the dim sweeping vault, sat, or rather lay the King, 242 00:14:31,520 --> 00:14:34,400 Speaker 1: for though his right arm still lay over her breast, 243 00:14:35,160 --> 00:14:38,160 Speaker 1: his head had fallen forward and rested now on the 244 00:14:38,200 --> 00:14:42,120 Speaker 1: shoulder of the marble queen. There he lay, with strange 245 00:14:42,120 --> 00:14:47,600 Speaker 1: confusion of his scarlet gold wrought robes, silent, motionless and dead. 246 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,720 Speaker 1: The seven Brethren stood together on the marble terrace of 247 00:14:51,760 --> 00:14:55,000 Speaker 1: the Royal Palace that was dotted about on the bluster 248 00:14:55,080 --> 00:14:58,600 Speaker 1: of it with white statues. They were helmeted and armed 249 00:14:58,640 --> 00:15:02,720 Speaker 1: to the teeth. Only over their armour, great black cloaks 250 00:15:02,800 --> 00:15:07,120 Speaker 1: were thrown. Now the whole great terrace was a sway 251 00:15:07,520 --> 00:15:10,280 Speaker 1: with the crowd of nobles and princes, and others that 252 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:14,040 Speaker 1: were neither nobles or princes, but true men only, And 253 00:15:14,120 --> 00:15:17,480 Speaker 1: these were helmeted and wrapped in black cloaks, even as 254 00:15:17,520 --> 00:15:20,160 Speaker 1: the princes were. Only the crests of the prince's helms 255 00:15:20,160 --> 00:15:23,440 Speaker 1: were wrought wonderfully with that bird, the phoenix, all flaming 256 00:15:23,480 --> 00:15:26,240 Speaker 1: with new power, dying because its old body was not 257 00:15:26,400 --> 00:15:29,680 Speaker 1: strong enough for its newfound power. And those on that 258 00:15:29,800 --> 00:15:33,600 Speaker 1: terrace who were unarmed had anxious faces, some fearful, some 259 00:15:33,720 --> 00:15:37,560 Speaker 1: stormy with devil's rage at disappointment. But among the faces 260 00:15:37,560 --> 00:15:40,120 Speaker 1: of those helmed ones, though here and there you might 261 00:15:40,160 --> 00:15:43,080 Speaker 1: see a pale face, and there was no fear or rage, 262 00:15:43,120 --> 00:15:47,400 Speaker 1: scarcely even anxiety, but calm, brave joy seemed to be 263 00:15:47,480 --> 00:15:51,360 Speaker 1: on all above the heads of all men on that 264 00:15:51,480 --> 00:15:55,320 Speaker 1: terrace shown out Zeven's brave face, the golden hair flowing 265 00:15:55,360 --> 00:15:58,920 Speaker 1: out from his helmet, a smile of quiet confidence overflowing 266 00:15:58,960 --> 00:16:00,880 Speaker 1: from his mighty heart, and the depths of which it 267 00:16:00,920 --> 00:16:04,480 Speaker 1: was dwelling just showed very little on his eyes and lips, 268 00:16:06,080 --> 00:16:08,480 Speaker 1: while all the vast square, and all the windows and 269 00:16:08,560 --> 00:16:12,040 Speaker 1: roofs and even of houses over against the palace were alive, 270 00:16:12,080 --> 00:16:15,320 Speaker 1: with an innumerable sea of trouble, raging faces showing white 271 00:16:15,720 --> 00:16:20,040 Speaker 1: upturned under the undersea their many colored raiment. The murmur 272 00:16:20,120 --> 00:16:23,280 Speaker 1: from them was like a sow of the first tempest 273 00:16:23,320 --> 00:16:27,000 Speaker 1: wind among the pines, and the gleam of spears here 274 00:16:27,040 --> 00:16:29,440 Speaker 1: and there was like the last gleams of the sun 275 00:16:29,560 --> 00:16:33,080 Speaker 1: through the woods when the black thunderclouds come up over all, 276 00:16:33,160 --> 00:16:35,760 Speaker 1: and soon to be shown through those woods by the 277 00:16:35,800 --> 00:16:41,080 Speaker 1: gleam of deep lightning. Also sometimes the murmur would swell, 278 00:16:41,360 --> 00:16:43,680 Speaker 1: and from the heart of it would come a fierce horse, 279 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:50,800 Speaker 1: tearing shattering roar, strangely discordant of war, war, Give us war, 280 00:16:50,920 --> 00:16:56,040 Speaker 1: o King, thence then stepping forward, his arms hidden under 281 00:16:56,040 --> 00:16:59,160 Speaker 1: his long cloak, as they hung down quietly, The smile 282 00:16:59,200 --> 00:17:02,240 Speaker 1: on his face brought somewhat sent from his chest a 283 00:17:02,360 --> 00:17:07,600 Speaker 1: mighty effortless voice. Over all the raging hear, o ye people, 284 00:17:08,320 --> 00:17:11,119 Speaker 1: war with all that is ugly and base, peace with 285 00:17:11,240 --> 00:17:14,879 Speaker 1: all that is fair and good, No war with my 286 00:17:15,000 --> 00:17:19,960 Speaker 1: brother's people. Just then, one of those unhelmeted, creeping round 287 00:17:20,000 --> 00:17:23,359 Speaker 1: about stealthily to the place where Sven stood, lifted his 288 00:17:23,480 --> 00:17:26,639 Speaker 1: arm and smote at him with a dagger. Whereupon, Seven, 289 00:17:26,800 --> 00:17:29,040 Speaker 1: clearing his right arm from his cloak with his left, 290 00:17:29,400 --> 00:17:32,520 Speaker 1: lifted up his glittering right hand, and the trader fell 291 00:17:32,560 --> 00:17:35,280 Speaker 1: to the earth, groaning with a broken jaw. First, Ven 292 00:17:35,320 --> 00:17:37,760 Speaker 1: had smitten him on the mouth a backward blow with 293 00:17:37,840 --> 00:17:43,520 Speaker 1: his open hand. One shouted from the crowd, I murderers, Ven, 294 00:17:43,600 --> 00:17:46,600 Speaker 1: slay our good nobles, as you poisoned the king your father, 295 00:17:47,080 --> 00:17:49,520 Speaker 1: that you and your false brethren might oppress us with 296 00:17:49,560 --> 00:17:54,119 Speaker 1: the memory of that devil's witch your mother. The smile 297 00:17:54,200 --> 00:17:57,359 Speaker 1: lifts Ven's face and heart. Now he looked very stern 298 00:17:57,400 --> 00:18:01,120 Speaker 1: as he said, here, o ye people. In years past, 299 00:18:01,200 --> 00:18:03,080 Speaker 1: when I was a boy, my dream of dreams was 300 00:18:03,119 --> 00:18:06,520 Speaker 1: ever this, How should I make you good and because 301 00:18:06,560 --> 00:18:10,240 Speaker 1: good happy when I should become king over you? But 302 00:18:10,320 --> 00:18:12,760 Speaker 1: as year by year passed, I saw my dream flitting, 303 00:18:12,880 --> 00:18:16,040 Speaker 1: the deep colors of it changed, faded, grew gray in 304 00:18:16,080 --> 00:18:19,720 Speaker 1: the late light of coming manhood. Nevertheless, God be my 305 00:18:19,800 --> 00:18:22,480 Speaker 1: witness that I have ever striven to make you just 306 00:18:22,560 --> 00:18:26,920 Speaker 1: and true, hoping against hope continually, and I have ever 307 00:18:27,000 --> 00:18:29,880 Speaker 1: determined to bear everything and stay with you, even though 308 00:18:29,880 --> 00:18:32,919 Speaker 1: you should remain unjust in liars, for the sake of 309 00:18:33,000 --> 00:18:35,439 Speaker 1: the few who really love me. But now, seeing that 310 00:18:35,480 --> 00:18:38,000 Speaker 1: God has made you mad, and that his vengeance will 311 00:18:38,040 --> 00:18:41,199 Speaker 1: speedily fall, take heed, how you cast out from you 312 00:18:41,280 --> 00:18:44,400 Speaker 1: all that is good and true hearted? Once more, which 313 00:18:44,480 --> 00:18:50,040 Speaker 1: choose you peace or war? Between the good and the base. 314 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:52,760 Speaker 1: In the midst of the passionate faces and changing colors 315 00:18:53,160 --> 00:18:56,040 Speaker 1: stood the great Terrace, cold and calm and white, with 316 00:18:56,119 --> 00:18:59,360 Speaker 1: its changeless statues. And for a while there was silence, 317 00:19:00,920 --> 00:19:04,040 Speaker 1: broken through at last by a yell and a sharp 318 00:19:04,080 --> 00:19:07,600 Speaker 1: whir of arrows, and the cling clang from the armor 319 00:19:07,680 --> 00:19:11,240 Speaker 1: of the terrace. As Prince Harold staggered through, unhurt, struck 320 00:19:11,280 --> 00:19:15,440 Speaker 1: by the broad point on the helmet, What war? Shouted 321 00:19:15,560 --> 00:19:18,399 Speaker 1: vend wrathfully, and his voice sounded like a clap of 322 00:19:18,440 --> 00:19:21,199 Speaker 1: thunder following the lightning flash when a tower is struck 323 00:19:21,720 --> 00:19:25,320 Speaker 1: what war swords for vend round about the king, good 324 00:19:25,320 --> 00:19:27,840 Speaker 1: men and true sons of the golden hair, show these 325 00:19:27,880 --> 00:19:31,400 Speaker 1: men war. And as he spoke, he let his black 326 00:19:31,440 --> 00:19:34,800 Speaker 1: cloak fall, and up from their sheaths sprang seven swords, 327 00:19:35,160 --> 00:19:38,400 Speaker 1: steal from pommel to point. Only on the blades of them, 328 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:43,320 Speaker 1: in fantastic letters of gold, shone the word westward. Then 329 00:19:43,520 --> 00:19:46,480 Speaker 1: all the terrace gleamed with steel, and admit the hurling 330 00:19:46,520 --> 00:19:50,720 Speaker 1: of stones and whizz of arrows, they began to go westward. 331 00:19:53,080 --> 00:19:55,480 Speaker 1: The streets ran with blood, the air was filled with 332 00:19:55,560 --> 00:19:59,320 Speaker 1: groans and curses. The low waves nearest the granite pier 333 00:19:59,440 --> 00:20:02,680 Speaker 1: were edged with blood because they first caught the drippings 334 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,639 Speaker 1: of the blood. And those on the pier who durst 335 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,680 Speaker 1: stay on the pier saw the ships of Sven's little 336 00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:12,080 Speaker 1: fleet leaving, one by one, For he had taken aboard 337 00:20:12,119 --> 00:20:14,600 Speaker 1: those ten ships whoever had prayed to go, even in 338 00:20:14,640 --> 00:20:17,840 Speaker 1: the last moment, wounded or dying. Even better so, for 339 00:20:17,960 --> 00:20:20,199 Speaker 1: in their last moments came thoughts of good things to 340 00:20:20,280 --> 00:20:22,639 Speaker 1: many of them, and it was good to be among 341 00:20:22,680 --> 00:20:27,240 Speaker 1: the true. But those haughty ones left behind, sullen and untamed, 342 00:20:27,480 --> 00:20:31,160 Speaker 1: but with horrible, indefinable dread on them what was worse 343 00:20:31,240 --> 00:20:35,400 Speaker 1: than death or mere pain, howsoever fierce. These saw all 344 00:20:35,440 --> 00:20:37,600 Speaker 1: the ships go out of the harbor, merrily, with the 345 00:20:37,680 --> 00:20:41,080 Speaker 1: swaying sail and dashing oar, and with joyous singing of 346 00:20:41,119 --> 00:20:45,760 Speaker 1: those aboard. And Sven's was the last of all whom 347 00:20:45,840 --> 00:20:48,960 Speaker 1: they saw kneel down on the deck unhelmed. Then all 348 00:20:49,040 --> 00:20:51,720 Speaker 1: sheathed their swords that were about him, and the Prince 349 00:20:51,840 --> 00:20:55,919 Speaker 1: Robert took from Sven's hand an iron crown fantastically wrought, 350 00:20:56,280 --> 00:20:58,439 Speaker 1: and placed it on his head, and he knelt, and 351 00:20:58,480 --> 00:21:01,920 Speaker 1: he continued kneeling still till as the ship drew further 352 00:21:01,960 --> 00:21:05,159 Speaker 1: and further away from the harbor, all things aboard her 353 00:21:05,240 --> 00:21:09,639 Speaker 1: became indistinct, and they never saw Spend and his brethren again. 354 00:21:11,920 --> 00:21:15,280 Speaker 1: Here ends what William the Englishman wrote. But afterwards, in 355 00:21:15,320 --> 00:21:17,680 Speaker 1: the night time he found the book of a certain 356 00:21:17,760 --> 00:21:24,200 Speaker 1: chronicler which Saith in the springtime. In May the five 357 00:21:24,320 --> 00:21:26,919 Speaker 1: hundred and fiftieth year from the death of Spend, of 358 00:21:26,920 --> 00:21:31,400 Speaker 1: the wonderful King, the good knights, sailing due eastward, came 359 00:21:31,480 --> 00:21:34,159 Speaker 1: to the harbor of a land they knew not wherein 360 00:21:34,200 --> 00:21:37,760 Speaker 1: they saw many goodly ships, but of a strange fashion, 361 00:21:37,880 --> 00:21:42,880 Speaker 1: like the ships of the ancients, and destitute of any mariners. Besides, 362 00:21:42,920 --> 00:21:46,760 Speaker 1: they saw no beacons for the guidance of seamen, nor 363 00:21:46,880 --> 00:21:49,679 Speaker 1: was there any sound of bells or singing, though the 364 00:21:49,720 --> 00:21:53,520 Speaker 1: city was vast with many goodly towers and palaces. So 365 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:56,280 Speaker 1: when they landed they found that which is hardly to 366 00:21:56,280 --> 00:22:00,159 Speaker 1: be believed, but which is nevertheless true. For about to 367 00:22:00,200 --> 00:22:02,920 Speaker 1: the quays and about the streets lay many people dead 368 00:22:03,040 --> 00:22:06,080 Speaker 1: or stood, but quite without motion, for they were all white, 369 00:22:06,240 --> 00:22:09,640 Speaker 1: or about the color of new hewn freestone. Yet were 370 00:22:09,640 --> 00:22:12,560 Speaker 1: they not statues, but real men, for they had, some 371 00:22:12,600 --> 00:22:15,280 Speaker 1: of them ghastly wounds, which showed their entrails, and the 372 00:22:15,320 --> 00:22:20,639 Speaker 1: structure of their flesh and veins and bones. Moreover, the 373 00:22:20,680 --> 00:22:23,879 Speaker 1: streets were red and wet with blood, and the harbor 374 00:22:23,920 --> 00:22:26,639 Speaker 1: waves were red with it, because it dipped in great 375 00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,560 Speaker 1: drops slowly from the quays. Then, when the good knights 376 00:22:30,560 --> 00:22:33,199 Speaker 1: saw this, they doubted not but that it was the 377 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:37,320 Speaker 1: fearful punishment on this people for sins of theirs. Thereupon 378 00:22:37,440 --> 00:22:39,679 Speaker 1: they entered into a church of that gray city and 379 00:22:39,720 --> 00:22:43,680 Speaker 1: prayed God to pardon them. Afterwards, going back to their ships, 380 00:22:44,200 --> 00:22:48,120 Speaker 1: sailed away, marveling and I John who wrote this story, 381 00:22:48,440 --> 00:22:56,000 Speaker 1: saw all this with mine own eyes, and that's the story. 382 00:22:56,280 --> 00:22:58,119 Speaker 1: I like this story so much. I even like it 383 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:01,360 Speaker 1: better the second time I eat it, right, because there's 384 00:23:01,400 --> 00:23:03,399 Speaker 1: a kind of lot going on that I didn't necessarily 385 00:23:03,480 --> 00:23:07,760 Speaker 1: catch the first time. But it's so interesting to me, okay, 386 00:23:07,760 --> 00:23:10,639 Speaker 1: for a lot of reasons. One, I can see the 387 00:23:10,640 --> 00:23:13,040 Speaker 1: inspiration on Tolkien really clearly in this right, because you 388 00:23:13,080 --> 00:23:15,720 Speaker 1: have this kind of like good noble king thing going on, 389 00:23:16,040 --> 00:23:17,600 Speaker 1: but you also have like an evil king, or like 390 00:23:17,600 --> 00:23:19,639 Speaker 1: a king who thinks he's good but he actually sucks, 391 00:23:19,680 --> 00:23:22,520 Speaker 1: like the first king, you know. And and he's like, oh, 392 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:24,639 Speaker 1: I love my wife, and she's like, I'm not into you. 393 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:27,080 Speaker 1: I wish I was still dating that fucking smith, you know. 394 00:23:28,960 --> 00:23:32,119 Speaker 1: And it's so tragic when he's like, I'm gonna just 395 00:23:32,200 --> 00:23:34,760 Speaker 1: lay down and die here upon the statue of my 396 00:23:35,200 --> 00:23:37,720 Speaker 1: dead wife, and she's like, I don't even like you. 397 00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:40,119 Speaker 1: You know, I married you as like I gave up 398 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:41,760 Speaker 1: my life to marry you in order to keep my 399 00:23:41,800 --> 00:23:45,879 Speaker 1: people like free and happy, and you know, and you 400 00:23:45,920 --> 00:23:47,440 Speaker 1: still have got these like okay, and then the seven 401 00:23:47,480 --> 00:23:49,600 Speaker 1: Brothers are like all good and true, and that's like 402 00:23:49,760 --> 00:23:53,399 Speaker 1: very fucking like English like whatever, you know. But what 403 00:23:53,440 --> 00:23:55,679 Speaker 1: was so interesting then is this Like but then the 404 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:58,320 Speaker 1: nobles who are all gathered up round are like, no, 405 00:23:58,359 --> 00:24:00,080 Speaker 1: we want war. We just want to like fuck each 406 00:24:00,080 --> 00:24:02,439 Speaker 1: other up, right, That's just like, man, can't wait, just 407 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:05,639 Speaker 1: fuck each other up, you know. And so they're like, 408 00:24:05,640 --> 00:24:07,040 Speaker 1: all right, well we're gonna get out of here, like 409 00:24:07,040 --> 00:24:08,480 Speaker 1: we're good and noble and true, and so we're just 410 00:24:08,560 --> 00:24:11,680 Speaker 1: gonna leave. And they're going to basically Iceland. Right. It's 411 00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:13,960 Speaker 1: like always a little sketchy when people are like westward right, 412 00:24:14,080 --> 00:24:17,520 Speaker 1: you know, when they're English, because well, I'm recording this 413 00:24:17,640 --> 00:24:21,639 Speaker 1: from a colony that is the result of that, you know. 414 00:24:22,200 --> 00:24:24,120 Speaker 1: But I'm almost certain that they're talking about Iceland because 415 00:24:24,119 --> 00:24:25,639 Speaker 1: they referred to it as an island they referred to 416 00:24:25,680 --> 00:24:30,080 Speaker 1: as uninhabited. And also like specifically, I know William Morris 417 00:24:30,160 --> 00:24:32,280 Speaker 1: was like into Iceland, and you've got this whole like 418 00:24:32,960 --> 00:24:35,800 Speaker 1: kind of Vikingish vibe. Right, They're all like names vend 419 00:24:35,840 --> 00:24:38,359 Speaker 1: and shore and stuff, you know. So I think they 420 00:24:38,400 --> 00:24:40,239 Speaker 1: all like basically fuck off the Iceland. And then they 421 00:24:40,240 --> 00:24:44,000 Speaker 1: come back and then violence has trapped them into this 422 00:24:45,359 --> 00:24:49,120 Speaker 1: perfect stillness, you know, that's like ever changing, and their 423 00:24:49,160 --> 00:24:52,080 Speaker 1: wounds are always there and the blood keeps dripping forever. 424 00:24:53,520 --> 00:24:57,959 Speaker 1: It's so cool. Thank you all for listening to this story. 425 00:24:58,200 --> 00:25:00,359 Speaker 1: If you want to hear me read stories. If you 426 00:25:00,400 --> 00:25:02,400 Speaker 1: want to hear me read stories, you can do so 427 00:25:02,480 --> 00:25:04,960 Speaker 1: by continuing to listen to this podcast, or I read 428 00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:07,520 Speaker 1: about history on my podcast Cool People Did Cool stuff, 429 00:25:08,560 --> 00:25:10,560 Speaker 1: or you can come and see me talk because I'm 430 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:16,280 Speaker 1: on tour right now, unless it's the future, in which maybe, 431 00:25:16,440 --> 00:25:21,119 Speaker 1: but as you listen to this, I might be in Portland, Maine, 432 00:25:21,800 --> 00:25:26,560 Speaker 1: or in Rockland, somewhere rural Maine, I don't know. Look 433 00:25:26,600 --> 00:25:29,600 Speaker 1: up box car Books. That's where I'm going to be 434 00:25:29,680 --> 00:25:33,040 Speaker 1: the day this comes out. But I'm on tour. I 435 00:25:33,080 --> 00:25:36,879 Speaker 1: am reading stories. I'm reading folk tales set in the 436 00:25:36,920 --> 00:25:39,200 Speaker 1: world of the Sapling Cage, which is my new novel 437 00:25:39,960 --> 00:25:44,679 Speaker 1: that you might like. I hope you like it. I 438 00:25:44,720 --> 00:25:47,960 Speaker 1: also hope that you're doing well and that you don't 439 00:25:48,000 --> 00:25:50,280 Speaker 1: like take like like like I'm not like, oh, this 440 00:25:50,320 --> 00:25:52,399 Speaker 1: story has like all the right morals or whatever, like 441 00:25:52,400 --> 00:25:54,480 Speaker 1: now fuck that right, But instead it's just it's just 442 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,000 Speaker 1: interesting and like, am I wrong? Is this not the 443 00:25:58,040 --> 00:26:00,240 Speaker 1: precursor to those who walk away from ome loss because 444 00:26:00,280 --> 00:26:02,879 Speaker 1: you're describing this like perfect beautiful city, but that has 445 00:26:02,920 --> 00:26:05,560 Speaker 1: like a dark secret. And I really like you can 446 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:07,119 Speaker 1: tell that this man ended up like he's kind of 447 00:26:07,119 --> 00:26:09,480 Speaker 1: also seen sometimes as like the first eco socialist. Right. 448 00:26:10,680 --> 00:26:13,520 Speaker 1: He loves nature and he also loves craft stuff, right, 449 00:26:13,680 --> 00:26:16,200 Speaker 1: and he's like, actually, crafts and nature like go hand 450 00:26:16,240 --> 00:26:18,960 Speaker 1: in hand, and and it's shown in both of the 451 00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:21,160 Speaker 1: stories I've read by him so far. But I love 452 00:26:21,200 --> 00:26:23,000 Speaker 1: that they're describing and being like, oh, look at this 453 00:26:23,040 --> 00:26:26,639 Speaker 1: beautiful thing where they're taming everything by way of using 454 00:26:26,720 --> 00:26:29,960 Speaker 1: smartness to make lies and laying waste of valleys and 455 00:26:30,000 --> 00:26:34,760 Speaker 1: everyone lives as surfs and it sucks, like it's so good. 456 00:26:34,760 --> 00:26:36,959 Speaker 1: Like this guy he wasn't even like a socialist yet 457 00:26:36,960 --> 00:26:38,520 Speaker 1: when he wrote this, but you can see where he's 458 00:26:38,520 --> 00:26:40,439 Speaker 1: gonna end up. It's also interesting because he ended up 459 00:26:40,440 --> 00:26:45,720 Speaker 1: an atheist, right, But this story is like totally God focused, right, 460 00:26:46,359 --> 00:26:48,080 Speaker 1: But that's just like, I mean, it's the style at 461 00:26:48,080 --> 00:26:49,640 Speaker 1: the time, and it's the way people were thinking about 462 00:26:49,640 --> 00:26:54,119 Speaker 1: things and not context. Anyway, I already did my plugs 463 00:26:54,119 --> 00:26:56,040 Speaker 1: and here I am talking about the story again, so 464 00:26:56,119 --> 00:26:58,760 Speaker 1: I'll just be done and I'll talk to you next 465 00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:02,720 Speaker 1: week by It Could Happen Here as a production of 466 00:27:02,760 --> 00:27:05,680 Speaker 1: cool Zone Media. 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