There's a quote I've always loved on an episode of the X- Files where Scully remarks that her father, a Navy man, always taught her to respect nature because it has no respect for you. And I've always thought that sums it up pretty well
Deep story, deep comments. Lots to discuss. You took us very deep this time. In the end, I agree with you, find the middle way and I will add, and all that implies. Whether traveling on the road less traveled or not, life is difficult.
I'm with you. I'm all into the mystic Tolkien woods, but Little Tootsie toddling off to the pool with her widdle silver salver makes me slightly ill. The demand that her husband drive the car off the cliff could only have been made by someone who never went without to make car payments or heard the word "No." Like so many of us who left the pool and learned to live in the real world.
Didn't know how to send a message otherwise so I hope you see this! I'm a RMN with ADHD too (from Yorkshire) and I just wanted you to know you that you have really ignited my love of reading and wanting to write stories again ❤️. I absolutely love what you do and how you do it!! Thank you so much for putting your time out this way, I love to hear you can cut down your hours now, definitely earned it. I listen between my community crisis visits and it certainly helps to get my attention and distract from the work we do ❤️. You have a fantastic soothing accent, I love the voices you do as well! I'll get on patron asap but for now just know you're really appreciated and have such a talent ❤️❤️ hope shade and the pups are well!! All the best to you and yours X
I finally got a minute between writing the music and draft of my new novel- ‘For the Love of a Phantom’-to check out your reading of ‘The Golden Bough’ Tony. It’s a tremendous reading of a classic. Great job as always!
Love this picture wow Tony! This was a f ing FABULOUS tale and the most unbelievable thing in it, remember I see spirit’s and so did my gran not mum they terrify her because she saw her mum after she died to say she was out of her wheelchair and no longer had Alzheimer’s and at 5 I saw her too that night but I didn’t understand this gift/curse she spoke of because I had no experience of death! But the reason this is more unbelievable than anything else you have written is because of the man letting his good car go off a cliff! Lol 😂 I had an ex that used to kiss his car good night when he thought we were not looking out the window!! Oh that brings back funny memories! Thank you so much for another great job! 🕯🕊🤍🕊🕯
Of course, I've never met your Sheila, but as you describe her, she's too level headed to ask you to drown the car. lol I enjoyed the focus on the natural world and Romanticism in your interpretation of the story. We can combat the natural world, but we'll never conquer it. Storms will rage, and black bears will steal our cupcakes (worth a Google). My mind called to a return to The Garden. Like Adam and Eve, the couple enjoyed a carefree life. But like her predecessor, the modern Eve still wanted more. Chasing moon beams cost both Eves (and Adams) their lives.
Great story! Your thoughts on the more romantic take on Nature remind me of the long gone Dutch author Frederik van Eeden. Around 1898 Frederik and some like-minded souls started a kind of commune (the Walden Colony), to live closer to nature and mostly 'off the land'. The story I loved so much when I first heard it was that Frederik would regularly take a barefoot walk into town to buy a bag of biscuits, munching fresh biscuits on his way back to Walden. Which I get completely, I think we can all agree that Nature abhors an empty biscuit tin almost as much as a vacuum..
This is giving me great things to think about. I think wild animals are in the moment, they are present, they don't overthink and they accept and surrender. I feel things that don't move like trees, rocks, maybe even a sloth lol, are the great contemplators, even more so than humans but they do it un- neurotically. For the longest time I wanted to come back in my next life as a tree so I could sit and observe and contemplate but now I think I want to come back as the wind.
Yes Pan holds a fascination-chaos as god. Have you read William Morris’ News from Nowhere? Also Mervyn Peake’s The Gormenghast Trilogy? They sprang to mind as possible examples of the genre you were describing.
Wow. A wonderfully written story. I loved the alliteration and repetition he uses as well as the very ending. And as always, your performance was perfect. Thanks again.
Thank you. I needed a story to relax to this evening, and you put in a lot of work narrating these stories for us. I don't enjoy all of them but that's life. I just wanted to show my thanks for the work you do. I'm living under the poverty level, so this is the best I can do (I have to feed my cat too).
Thanks for this Tony - I really enjoyed both the story and your reading. I’m definitely going to look out more of this guy’s work. A couple of things struck me. The first was the role of pipes - the musical pipe that seemed to bring death through the surrender of self to ecstasy and the plumber’s pipe which despite good intentions of the husband helped to hasten death anyway by mechanically piping away the water of the dark pool. I was also struck by the mistletoe and how as well as being a parasite that only grows on certain tree (oak, apple, hawthorn and ash I think, but could be wrong) was said to represent male fertility because of its likeness to sperm - holly with its red berries, the colour of menstrual blood, represented female creativity. There’s a lot more to unpick, but they were the two things you hadn’t mentioned that first occurred to me. I’m not sure if I like the ending or not, but I think I do. I think it’s showing us that these forces are real and humans who mess with them are doomed - a bit like modern humans and the Environment. Thanks lots💚xx
Well! That sounds like a really bad hair day! Honestly Tony, from memory, your story 'The Grysdale Wedding ", was better. The imagery was lush, I'll give him that. Geese and goats are so much more dynamic than sheep and chickens. But the ending left me flat. It seemed that he became bored with writing this story so finished it off with "and they all died." Ho hum! You did better to glean so much from between the lines. You are a true scholar sir. Take care Tony. 🙋🔻🇦🇺
First tale I've listened to for a few weeks ( busy in the garden!) and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Absolutely fascinating and intriguing story... Even more I loved your commentary! 😊
Very thought-provoking! Thanks for the description of the Romantic movement--I never pieced it together that way. And having grown up in Pennsylvania, I can see Keller's inspiration of thick pine forests hiding within reach of civilization. Just last year when I was visiting there, I felt that I could pull off the interstate highway where I was driving and walk into the forest to get lost for days. Given that Keller would have grown up hearing about women's suffrage, I felt like some conservative ideas from the time period were surfacing in this story: Is it wise to let women decide where they can live or whom they can love, etc., even if they feel so passionately about it? And in the year of publication, 1934, this was a discussion in popular culture, too. Hollywood was portraying independent women in film, and "screwball" comedies were emerging in which women had the opportunities and attitudes usually reserved for men.
Wonderful reading and story! Thank you! As per the driving yhe car over the cluff, in the words of Luttle Britain, "If you LOVE me, you'll do it!" LOL ❤️😆
@@ClassicGhost I don’t know it there is one, but if there is I thought you would know! Someone told me it’s supposed to be a spooky time of year, like Halloween.
@@hawthorne1504 I think the eve of any holy day can be, in theory. Ghost stories are told on Christmas Eve, and the story of Dracula kicks off on St. George's Eve.
The shears (sword) is a symbol of power. The husbands need for control over the woman (symbolising his own unconscious shadow) is played out, he puts the shears between them, trying to divide himself from his own unconscious shadow, but by denying it and cutting himself off from it, its greater power kills him. ....that's my take anyway.
Wonderful story, wonderfully read. I've a fondness for the presence of female worshipers in stories of Pan and Bacchus. To me they represent a lost awareness of female freedom and connection to divine power. Lost to male dominated Christianity, no offence, don't go nuts folks. History tells us pagan men were reluctant to lose their female deities having an instinctual understanding that it takes two to make a world. It's extremely significant that THE woman in Christianity is a virgin. Sex is power....over men and vice versa, virginity lacks the essential female power. In National Velvet, the girl gets to win the Grand National (disguised as a boy) but must, must be robbed of victory and revealed by fainting from the "excitement" and falling from the saddle after clearing every jump. Pulese, and the beat goes on. 😬
Tony, my good sir... Is there any way you could give us a teensy teaser in the description letting us know the plot of the story in the video? I love learning about the author but due to memory issues, I'll often get a fair long way into the story before I realize I've heard it already haha
There's a quote I've always loved on an episode of the X- Files where Scully remarks that her father, a Navy man, always taught her to respect nature because it has no respect for you.
And I've always thought that sums it up pretty well
Deep story, deep comments. Lots to discuss. You took us very deep this time. In the end, I agree with you, find the middle way and I will add, and all that implies. Whether traveling on the road less traveled or not, life is difficult.
Wow, this story is a gem! A beautiful, dark gem... Thank you so much!
You made my day
I'm with you. I'm all into the mystic Tolkien woods, but Little Tootsie toddling off to the pool with her widdle silver salver makes me slightly ill. The demand that her husband drive the car off the cliff could only have been made by someone who never went without to make car payments or heard the word "No." Like so many of us who left the pool and learned to live in the real world.
Didn't know how to send a message otherwise so I hope you see this! I'm a RMN with ADHD too (from Yorkshire) and I just wanted you to know you that you have really ignited my love of reading and wanting to write stories again ❤️. I absolutely love what you do and how you do it!! Thank you so much for putting your time out this way, I love to hear you can cut down your hours now, definitely earned it. I listen between my community crisis visits and it certainly helps to get my attention and distract from the work we do ❤️. You have a fantastic soothing accent, I love the voices you do as well! I'll get on patron asap but for now just know you're really appreciated and have such a talent ❤️❤️ hope shade and the pups are well!! All the best to you and yours X
ah sounds like we have a lot of experiences in common! listening between crisis visits lol!
Sending healing prayers. 😢❤
Amazing story with excellent narration. Thanks!
I finally got a minute between writing the music and draft of my new novel- ‘For the Love of a Phantom’-to check out your reading of ‘The Golden Bough’ Tony. It’s a tremendous reading of a classic. Great job as always!
Love this picture wow Tony! This was a f ing FABULOUS tale and the most unbelievable thing in it, remember I see spirit’s and so did my gran not mum they terrify her because she saw her mum after she died to say she was out of her wheelchair and no longer had Alzheimer’s and at 5 I saw her too that night but I didn’t understand this gift/curse she spoke of because I had no experience of death! But the reason this is more unbelievable than anything else you have written is because of the man letting his good car go off a cliff! Lol 😂 I had an ex that used to kiss his car good night when he thought we were not looking out the window!! Oh that brings back funny memories! Thank you so much for another great job! 🕯🕊🤍🕊🕯
Of course, I've never met your Sheila, but as you describe her, she's too level headed to ask you to drown the car. lol
I enjoyed the focus on the natural world and Romanticism in your interpretation of the story. We can combat the natural world, but we'll never conquer it. Storms will rage, and black bears will steal our cupcakes (worth a Google). My mind called to a return to The Garden. Like Adam and Eve, the couple enjoyed a carefree life. But like her predecessor, the modern Eve still wanted more. Chasing moon beams cost both Eves (and Adams) their lives.
that is a great interpretation! i missed that one but i think you’re right !
By the way, nice thumbnail choice. It definitely caught my eye. And since I've read Frazier's Golden Bough, I clicked!
Great story! Your thoughts on the more romantic take on Nature remind me of the long gone Dutch author Frederik van Eeden. Around 1898 Frederik and some like-minded souls started a kind of commune (the Walden Colony), to live closer to nature and mostly 'off the land'. The story I loved so much when I first heard it was that Frederik would regularly take a barefoot walk into town to buy a bag of biscuits, munching fresh biscuits on his way back to Walden. Which I get completely, I think we can all agree that Nature abhors an empty biscuit tin almost as much as a vacuum..
I didn’t know of him. Lovely story. aid heard of Walden but wasn’t very clear what it was. Thank you
Great story, how the Gods are roused at times, to play cruel games against mankind.
Killer thumbnail art! The story was awesome as always, but the realistic look of her is terrifyingly wonderful!
This is giving me great things to think about. I think wild animals are in the moment, they are present, they don't overthink and they accept and surrender.
I feel things that don't move like trees, rocks, maybe even a sloth lol, are the great contemplators, even more so than humans but they do it un- neurotically.
For the longest time I wanted to come back in my next life as a tree so I could sit and observe and contemplate but now I think I want to come back as the wind.
❤
Amazon is the most freightening environment of all... . Terrifiying. Thank you, Tony.
Thoroughly enjoyed thank you 👍🥂
Perfect for this stormy night! Thanks as always Tony, you're a gem
Yes Pan holds a fascination-chaos as god. Have you read William Morris’ News from Nowhere? Also Mervyn Peake’s The Gormenghast Trilogy? They sprang to mind as possible examples of the genre you were describing.
Wow. A wonderfully written story. I loved the alliteration and repetition he uses as well as the very ending. And as always, your performance was perfect. Thanks again.
Maybe the most important, informed, and interesting,
post story ramble that you've ever had.
Praise indeed! Thank you
Fantastic post-discussion! Authentically superb
This was a fantastic story! Thank you for reading! I can’t open books like I used to, but I can always turn on an audiobook. This is my happy place!
Great story, well narrated.
Reminds me somehow of wassailing in the orchards of Kent!🤟🇬🇧
Thank you. I needed a story to relax to this evening, and you put in a lot of work narrating these stories for us. I don't enjoy all of them but that's life. I just wanted to show my thanks for the work you do. I'm living under the poverty level, so this is the best I can do (I have to feed my cat too).
Oooo just in time for afternoon chores! Thank you so much!
What a great story, both in style and content. And excellently performed. Thank you so much
as a fellow (post-)Jungian, I loved this. So numinous, full of images, beautifully written. brilliant choice, thank you
Loved this story thankyou! 😊
Always...beware of pipes...😱 Heeding them never ends well...
Sad story but thank you
Pan has always fascinated me.. Even as a child...... ❤
The Pan within!
Fantastic Story, except for the End, that Sucked 👏👏👏👍👍👍
Where nightmares originate---horrorfull. Masterful narration and commentary as always. Thank you, Tony.
Great channel!
Thank you!
Thanks for this Tony - I really enjoyed both the story and your reading. I’m definitely going to look out more of this guy’s work. A couple of things struck me. The first was the role of pipes - the musical pipe that seemed to bring death through the surrender of self to ecstasy and the plumber’s pipe which despite good intentions of the husband helped to hasten death anyway by mechanically piping away the water of the dark pool.
I was also struck by the mistletoe and how as well as being a parasite that only grows on certain tree (oak, apple, hawthorn and ash I think, but could be wrong) was said to represent male fertility because of its likeness to sperm - holly with its red berries, the colour of menstrual blood, represented female creativity.
There’s a lot more to unpick, but they were the two things you hadn’t mentioned that first occurred to me.
I’m not sure if I like the ending or not, but I think I do. I think it’s showing us that these forces are real and humans who mess with them are doomed - a bit like modern humans and the Environment. Thanks lots💚xx
Yippee, can't wait to for this story, thank you Tony 💙💛💚
Thank you, Tony. Good analysis. 👍
Well!
That sounds like a really bad hair day!
Honestly Tony, from memory, your story 'The Grysdale Wedding ", was better.
The imagery was lush, I'll give him that. Geese and goats are so much more dynamic than sheep and chickens. But the ending left me flat.
It seemed that he became bored with writing this story so finished it off with "and they all died."
Ho hum!
You did better to glean so much from between the lines. You are a true scholar sir.
Take care Tony.
🙋🔻🇦🇺
Thank you! 👍🏽
Lovely Friday night treat thank you Tony
Thank you sir..😊❤
First tale I've listened to for a few weeks ( busy in the garden!) and I thoroughly enjoyed it! Absolutely fascinating and intriguing story...
Even more I loved your commentary! 😊
Enjoyed this
That was soooo good!
Very thought-provoking! Thanks for the description of the Romantic movement--I never pieced it together that way. And having grown up in Pennsylvania, I can see Keller's inspiration of thick pine forests hiding within reach of civilization. Just last year when I was visiting there, I felt that I could pull off the interstate highway where I was driving and walk into the forest to get lost for days.
Given that Keller would have grown up hearing about women's suffrage, I felt like some conservative ideas from the time period were surfacing in this story: Is it wise to let women decide where they can live or whom they can love, etc., even if they feel so passionately about it? And in the year of publication, 1934, this was a discussion in popular culture, too. Hollywood was portraying independent women in film, and "screwball" comedies were emerging in which women had the opportunities and attitudes usually reserved for men.
Wonderful reading and story! Thank you! As per the driving yhe car over the cluff, in the words of Luttle Britain, "If you LOVE me, you'll do it!" LOL ❤️😆
Naaah man, thats as far as i,d have gone. l,d have driven her straight to the funny farm 😂😂😂😂
@@davidwhite7294 LOL
I liked it that Pan's mother didn't approve.
This guy is the quintessential fool for love
AAhhhMazing❣️🙏🏻❣️ 42:23
Never trust a Satyr.🌙💀🌠
well said
👌 👏 wow 👌
❤❤❤❤❤
thanks for that 😀
Can you narrate a midsummer eve (St John’s Eve) ghost story?
who wrote that one?
@@ClassicGhost I don’t know it there is one, but if there is I thought you would know! Someone told me it’s supposed to be a spooky time of year, like Halloween.
@@hawthorne1504 I think the eve of any holy day can be, in theory. Ghost stories are told on Christmas Eve, and the story of Dracula kicks off on St. George's Eve.
@@alisonkirkland6132 Interesting
The shears (sword) is a symbol of power. The husbands need for control over the woman (symbolising his own unconscious shadow) is played out, he puts the shears between them, trying to divide himself from his own unconscious shadow, but by denying it and cutting himself off from it, its greater power kills him. ....that's my take anyway.
I like this. Keep em coming
Reminds me of some stories by Saki -- The Music on the Hill, Gabriel-Ernest
yes. i see the similarities
der ehemann tut mir nicht leid. er hat sein ende selber herbeigeführt.
eine tolle geschichte, ich habe mit der frau mitgefiebert!
Yes. She's dangerous. Still, no. 😂😂
Wonderful story, wonderfully read. I've a fondness for the presence of female worshipers in stories of Pan and Bacchus. To me they represent a lost awareness of female freedom and connection to divine power. Lost to male dominated Christianity, no offence, don't go nuts folks. History tells us pagan men were reluctant to lose their female deities having an instinctual understanding that it takes two to make a world. It's extremely significant that THE woman in Christianity is a virgin. Sex is power....over men and vice versa, virginity lacks the essential female power.
In National Velvet, the girl gets to win the Grand National (disguised as a boy) but must, must be robbed of victory and revealed by fainting from the "excitement" and falling from the saddle after clearing every jump. Pulese, and the beat goes on. 😬
I think I hear pages turning and that’s wonderful. Thank you!
yes. it was a paper copy
Tony, my good sir... Is there any way you could give us a teensy teaser in the description letting us know the plot of the story in the video? I love learning about the author but due to memory issues, I'll often get a fair long way into the story before I realize I've heard it already haha
+Jenny Lane i think there is. i the last i’ve done that but i’ve got out of the way of it recently.