1 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:17,430 Hello and welcome to meters pod Live episode one. I'm your host 2 00:00:17,430 --> 00:00:20,310 D Mitas. We're here at well traveled beer in Goldsboro, 3 00:00:20,310 --> 00:00:23,310 North Carolina to celebrate a night with Edgar Allan Poe. 4 00:00:24,090 --> 00:00:27,150 Edgar Allan Poe is an American short story writer, poet, critic 5 00:00:27,150 --> 00:00:30,120 and editor who's famous for his cultivation of mystery and the 6 00:00:30,120 --> 00:00:34,740 McCobb. His tale the murders in the Rue Morgue, initiated the 7 00:00:34,740 --> 00:00:37,710 modern detective story, and the atmosphere in his tales of 8 00:00:37,710 --> 00:00:43,260 horror is unrivaled in American fiction. His The Raven numbers 9 00:00:43,260 --> 00:00:46,950 among the best known poems in the national literature, the 10 00:00:46,950 --> 00:00:50,040 raven is our first selection for this evening. So without further 11 00:00:50,040 --> 00:00:51,960 ado, the Raven. 12 00:01:05,430 --> 00:01:09,390 Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and 13 00:01:09,390 --> 00:01:13,290 weary, over many acquaints and curious volume of forgotten 14 00:01:13,290 --> 00:01:18,090 lore, while I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a 15 00:01:18,090 --> 00:01:23,940 tapping as of someone gently rapping, rapping at my chamber 16 00:01:23,940 --> 00:01:30,360 door to some visitor, I muttered, tapping at my chamber 17 00:01:30,360 --> 00:01:37,140 door. Only this nothing more distinctly I remember it was in 18 00:01:37,140 --> 00:01:40,500 the bleak December and each separate dying Ember wrote its 19 00:01:40,500 --> 00:01:46,080 ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow vainly I had 20 00:01:46,080 --> 00:01:51,390 sought to borrow from my books or cease of sorrow, sorrow, for 21 00:01:51,390 --> 00:01:56,070 the lost Lenore. For the rare and radiants maiden on the 22 00:01:56,070 --> 00:02:03,810 angels name, Lenore, nameless here, forevermore. And the 23 00:02:03,810 --> 00:02:07,830 silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain thrilled me, 24 00:02:08,400 --> 00:02:13,170 filled me with fantastic tears never felt before. So that now 25 00:02:13,200 --> 00:02:17,310 to steal the beating of my heart, I stood repeating to some 26 00:02:17,310 --> 00:02:21,360 visitor intriguing entrance of my chamber door, suddenly 27 00:02:21,390 --> 00:02:26,190 visitor and treating entrance at my chamber door. This it is 28 00:02:26,550 --> 00:02:33,150 nothing more. Presently my soldiers stronger hesitating 29 00:02:33,150 --> 00:02:39,570 then no longer, sir, said I, or madam, truly your forgiveness I 30 00:02:39,570 --> 00:02:43,350 implore but the fact is, I was napping so gently, you came 31 00:02:43,350 --> 00:02:48,090 wrapping and so you can tap tapping at my chamber door that 32 00:02:48,090 --> 00:02:53,730 I scarce was sure I heard you. Here. I opened wide the door, 33 00:02:55,110 --> 00:03:01,320 darkness there, and nothing more. deep into that darkness 34 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,040 peering long I stood there wondering, fearing dreaming 35 00:03:05,040 --> 00:03:10,260 dreams, no mortal ever dared to dream before. But the silence 36 00:03:10,260 --> 00:03:14,730 was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, and the only word 37 00:03:14,730 --> 00:03:21,570 there spoken was the whispered word. And this I whispered, and 38 00:03:21,570 --> 00:03:28,560 an echo murmured back the word Lenovo nearly this nothing more. 39 00:03:30,090 --> 00:03:33,990 Back into the chamber turning all my soul within me burning 40 00:03:34,110 --> 00:03:37,500 soon again I heard a tapping somewhat louder than before. 41 00:03:40,170 --> 00:03:45,480 Surely said hi. Surely that is something that my window lattice 42 00:03:45,510 --> 00:03:48,720 let me see them what they're at is and this mystery explorer. 43 00:03:49,590 --> 00:03:54,210 Let my heart be still a moment. And this mystery Explorer is the 44 00:03:54,210 --> 00:04:01,080 wind and nothing more. Open here I've long Miss shutter with many 45 00:04:01,080 --> 00:04:05,400 a flirt and flutter in there stepped a stately Raven. Of the 46 00:04:05,400 --> 00:04:10,890 saintly days of you're not the least of the sun's made he not a 47 00:04:10,890 --> 00:04:14,220 minute stopped or stayed here but with mine of Lord or Lady 48 00:04:14,220 --> 00:04:18,900 perched above my chamber door, perched upon a bust of palace 49 00:04:18,930 --> 00:04:24,990 just above my chamber door perched and sat and nothing 50 00:04:24,990 --> 00:04:30,450 more. Then this ebony bird beguiling my sad fancy into 51 00:04:30,450 --> 00:04:34,590 smiling, but the grave and stern decorum of the countenance at 52 00:04:34,590 --> 00:04:40,680 war, though they crest be shown and shaven now, I said, aren't 53 00:04:40,680 --> 00:04:44,550 sure no Craven, ghastly, grim and ancient Raven wandering from 54 00:04:44,550 --> 00:04:48,240 the knightly shore telling me what the Lord thy name is on 55 00:04:48,240 --> 00:04:56,370 this nice plutonium shore? Quote The Raven, Nevermore. Much I 56 00:04:56,370 --> 00:05:01,680 marveled this ungainly foul to hear discourse plainly, though 57 00:05:01,680 --> 00:05:05,370 its answer little meaning little relevancy bore. For we cannot 58 00:05:05,370 --> 00:05:09,930 help agreeing that no living human being ever yet was blessed 59 00:05:09,930 --> 00:05:16,470 with seeing bird above his chamber door, bird or beast upon 60 00:05:16,470 --> 00:05:20,310 the sculpted bust above his chamber door with such a name as 61 00:05:20,340 --> 00:05:26,100 never more. But the Raven sitting lonely on the blasted 62 00:05:26,100 --> 00:05:30,660 bust spoke only that one word, as if his soul in that one word 63 00:05:30,660 --> 00:05:35,640 he did outpour nothing further than he uttered, not a feather 64 00:05:35,790 --> 00:05:40,050 that he fluttered till I scarcely more than other other 65 00:05:40,050 --> 00:05:44,640 friends have flown before. And tomorrow he will leave me as my 66 00:05:44,640 --> 00:05:45,900 hopes as long before. 67 00:05:47,490 --> 00:05:53,880 Then the bird said, Nevermore. startled at the stillness broken 68 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:59,580 by replies, so aptly spoken, darkness, said I wanted others 69 00:05:59,580 --> 00:06:03,030 is its only stocking store call it from someone happy master, 70 00:06:03,060 --> 00:06:05,850 who, when a merciful disaster followed fast and followed 71 00:06:05,850 --> 00:06:09,930 faster until his songs One burden bore till the dirt is of 72 00:06:09,930 --> 00:06:16,110 his hope, that melancholy burden more have never, never more. But 73 00:06:16,110 --> 00:06:20,790 the Raven still beguiling all my fancy into smiling straight I 74 00:06:20,790 --> 00:06:26,160 wheeled a cushion seat in front of bird and bust and door. Then 75 00:06:26,160 --> 00:06:31,680 upon the velvet sinking, I took myself to linking fancy and to 76 00:06:31,680 --> 00:06:36,330 fancy thinking that this ominous bird of your what this grim, 77 00:06:36,330 --> 00:06:39,990 ungainly, ghastly, gaunt, and ominous bird of your meant in 78 00:06:39,990 --> 00:06:47,340 croaking Nevermore. This I sat engaged in guessing but no 79 00:06:47,340 --> 00:06:51,960 syllable expressing to the foul was fiery eyes now burned into 80 00:06:51,960 --> 00:06:57,300 my bosoms core. This and more I sat divining, with my head at 81 00:06:57,300 --> 00:07:01,020 ease reclining on the cushions, velvet lining with the lamp 82 00:07:01,020 --> 00:07:07,530 light glow to door, but whose fill that violet lining with the 83 00:07:07,530 --> 00:07:18,510 lamp light gloating or she shall press? Ah, never more than me 84 00:07:18,510 --> 00:07:23,490 thought the air grew denser, perfumed by some unseen sensor 85 00:07:23,490 --> 00:07:27,150 swung by Sarafem, whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted 86 00:07:27,150 --> 00:07:34,140 floor. Rach, I cried, that God has lent the by these angels he 87 00:07:34,140 --> 00:07:37,830 has sent the respite respite and independent 88 00:07:37,830 --> 00:07:42,480 D from my memories of Lenore cloth. Oh, Paul, this kind of 89 00:07:42,480 --> 00:07:44,880 the pet D and forget this last 90 00:07:44,880 --> 00:07:53,130 Lenore. quoth The Raven, Nevermore. Profit set up said I 91 00:07:53,970 --> 00:07:58,800 think of evil profit still if bird or devil whether temper 92 00:07:58,800 --> 00:08:03,420 cent or whether tempest tossed the here ashore desolate yo yet 93 00:08:03,450 --> 00:08:07,530 all undaunted on this desert land enchanted on this home by 94 00:08:07,530 --> 00:08:14,580 horror haunted telling me truly. I implore Is there is there boom 95 00:08:14,610 --> 00:08:20,880 in Gilead Tell me tell me I implore you quote the Raven. 96 00:08:22,050 --> 00:08:31,650 Nevermore. Prophet, said I, Dean of evil prophets still if bird 97 00:08:31,650 --> 00:08:35,820 or devil by that heaven that bends above us, by that God we 98 00:08:35,820 --> 00:08:39,510 both adore telling this soul with sorrow Layton within the 99 00:08:39,510 --> 00:08:43,620 distance Aidan it shall class if it shall class but saying to me 100 00:08:43,620 --> 00:08:48,600 whom the angels name Lenore Class A rare and radiant mating 101 00:08:48,630 --> 00:08:58,860 whom the angels name Lenore. With the Raven, Nevermore be 102 00:08:58,860 --> 00:09:03,840 that word or sign of parting bird or themed I shrieked up 103 00:09:03,840 --> 00:09:07,710 starting, get the back into the Tempest and the nights Plutonian 104 00:09:07,710 --> 00:09:12,090 shore leave no black plume as a token of that lie they sold it 105 00:09:12,090 --> 00:09:16,440 spoken. Leave my loneliness unbroken he quit the bust above 106 00:09:16,440 --> 00:09:21,870 my door, take thy beat from out my heart and take thy form from 107 00:09:21,900 --> 00:09:31,650 off my door with the Raven, Nevermore. And the Raven, never 108 00:09:31,650 --> 00:09:38,370 flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting on that pallet 109 00:09:38,370 --> 00:09:43,710 Buster Palace just above my chamber door. And his eyes have 110 00:09:43,710 --> 00:09:48,540 all the seeming of a demons that is dreaming, and the lamp light 111 00:09:48,540 --> 00:09:54,120 or him streaming throws his shadow on the floor and my soul 112 00:09:54,240 --> 00:09:59,070 from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor shall be 113 00:09:59,070 --> 00:10:22,920 lifted Nevermore The Raven was first released 175 years ago as 114 00:10:22,920 --> 00:10:27,060 of last month. When the Raven was first released, it brought 115 00:10:27,060 --> 00:10:29,880 Poe tons of celebrity and recognition but no financial 116 00:10:29,880 --> 00:10:34,980 success. He's quoted as saying, I have made no money. I am as 117 00:10:34,980 --> 00:10:39,480 poor now as I ever was in my life except in hope, which is by 118 00:10:39,480 --> 00:10:45,780 no means bankable. Sounds like he's a podcaster. Our second 119 00:10:45,780 --> 00:10:49,800 selection will be the tale to the tell tale heart. The Tell 120 00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:54,450 Tale Heart was first published in 1843. And Paul was paid about 121 00:10:54,450 --> 00:10:58,170 $10 for it, which in today's dollars would be about 350. 122 00:11:00,900 --> 00:11:21,060 Without further ado, the telltale hearts true, nervous, 123 00:11:21,690 --> 00:11:28,140 very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am. But why will 124 00:11:28,140 --> 00:11:33,060 you say that I am mad. The disease had sharpened my senses, 125 00:11:33,510 --> 00:11:38,880 not destroyed, not dulled them. Above all, was the sense of 126 00:11:38,880 --> 00:11:44,460 hearing acute. I heard all things in the heaven then in the 127 00:11:44,460 --> 00:11:51,270 earth. I heard many things in hell. How then, am I mad? 128 00:11:52,260 --> 00:11:58,140 hearken. And observe how healthily how calmly I can tell 129 00:11:58,140 --> 00:11:59,700 you the whole story 130 00:12:01,710 --> 00:12:07,770 is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain. But 131 00:12:07,770 --> 00:12:13,650 once conceived, it haunted me day and night. Object. There was 132 00:12:13,650 --> 00:12:18,750 none. Passion, there was none. I loved the old man, for he had 133 00:12:18,750 --> 00:12:23,850 never wronged me. He had never given me insult. For his gold, I 134 00:12:23,850 --> 00:12:31,830 had no desire. I think it was his eye. Yes, it was this. He 135 00:12:31,830 --> 00:12:37,500 had the eye of a vulture a pale blue eye with the film over it. 136 00:12:38,610 --> 00:12:43,620 Whenever it fell upon me by blood ran cold. And so by 137 00:12:43,620 --> 00:12:48,630 degrees very gradually, I made up my mind to take the life of 138 00:12:48,630 --> 00:12:55,410 the old man, and thus rid myself of the eye forever. Now, this is 139 00:12:55,410 --> 00:13:02,220 the points. You fancy me mad. Mad Men know nothing. But you 140 00:13:02,220 --> 00:13:07,860 should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded 141 00:13:07,860 --> 00:13:12,420 and with what caution with what four sites was what 142 00:13:12,420 --> 00:13:18,240 dissimulation I went to work. I was never kinder to the old man 143 00:13:18,240 --> 00:13:22,620 during the whole week before I killed him. Then every night, 144 00:13:22,740 --> 00:13:27,870 about midnight, I turned the latch of his door and opened it. 145 00:13:28,890 --> 00:13:35,610 Oh so gently. And then, when I had made an opening sufficient 146 00:13:35,610 --> 00:13:41,160 for my head, I put in a dark lantern, all closed, closed, 147 00:13:41,160 --> 00:13:48,060 that no light shone out. And then I thrust in my head. You 148 00:13:48,060 --> 00:13:52,650 would have laughed to see how cunningly I thrust it in. I 149 00:13:52,650 --> 00:13:59,190 moved it slowly. There you very slowly so that I might not 150 00:13:59,190 --> 00:14:05,820 disturb the old man's sleep. It took me an hour to place my 151 00:14:05,820 --> 00:14:09,390 whole head within the opening so far that I could see him as he 152 00:14:09,390 --> 00:14:17,280 lie upon his bed. What a madman have been so wise is this. And 153 00:14:17,280 --> 00:14:22,860 then, when my head was well in the room, I undid the lantern 154 00:14:22,890 --> 00:14:27,960 cautiously Oh, so cautiously cautiously, for the hinges 155 00:14:27,960 --> 00:14:36,690 creaked I undid it just so much that a single thin array fell 156 00:14:36,720 --> 00:14:42,420 upon the vulture i. And this I did for seven long nights every 157 00:14:42,420 --> 00:14:47,970 night, just at midnight. When I found the I always closed so it 158 00:14:47,970 --> 00:14:52,440 was impossible to do the work. For it was not the old man who 159 00:14:52,440 --> 00:14:57,690 vexed me but his evil eye. And every morning when the day 160 00:14:57,690 --> 00:15:00,960 broke, I went boldly into his chambers. Well courageously to 161 00:15:00,960 --> 00:15:04,890 him, calling him by name and a hearty tone and inquiring how he 162 00:15:04,890 --> 00:15:09,720 had passed the night. You see, he would have been a very 163 00:15:09,720 --> 00:15:13,560 profound old man indeed to suspect that every night just at 164 00:15:13,560 --> 00:15:22,080 12 I looked in upon him while he slept. Upon the eighth nights, I 165 00:15:22,080 --> 00:15:27,480 was more than usually cautious in opening the door of watches 166 00:15:27,480 --> 00:15:32,460 minute hand moves more quickly than did mine. Never before that 167 00:15:32,460 --> 00:15:42,450 night, had I felt the extent of my own powers of my sagacity. I 168 00:15:42,450 --> 00:15:45,870 could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph to think 169 00:15:45,870 --> 00:15:50,910 that they are I was opening the door little by little, and he 170 00:15:51,120 --> 00:15:57,090 not even to dream of my secret deeds or thoughts. I fairly 171 00:15:57,090 --> 00:16:01,680 chuckled at the idea, and perhaps he heard me, for he 172 00:16:01,680 --> 00:16:07,950 moved on the bed suddenly, as if startled. You may think that I 173 00:16:07,950 --> 00:16:13,980 drew back. But no. His room was this blackest pitch with a thick 174 00:16:13,980 --> 00:16:17,820 darkness, for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of 175 00:16:17,820 --> 00:16:22,860 robbers. And so I knew that he could not see the opening of the 176 00:16:22,860 --> 00:16:30,270 door, and I kept pushing it on steadily, steadily. I had my 177 00:16:30,270 --> 00:16:34,410 head in, and was about to open the lantern when my thumb 178 00:16:34,410 --> 00:16:38,670 slipped upon the fastening, and the old man sprang up in bed 179 00:16:38,670 --> 00:16:43,860 crying out who was there. I kept quiet and still and said 180 00:16:43,860 --> 00:16:50,010 nothing. For a whole hour, I did not move a muscle. And in the 181 00:16:50,010 --> 00:16:53,220 meantime, I did not hear him lie down. 182 00:16:54,540 --> 00:16:59,340 He was still sitting up in his bed listening, just as I have 183 00:16:59,340 --> 00:17:03,960 done night after night, hearkening to the death watches 184 00:17:03,960 --> 00:17:12,030 in the wall. Presently, I heard a slight groan, and I know it 185 00:17:12,030 --> 00:17:16,830 was the groan of mortal terror. It was not a groan of pain or 186 00:17:16,830 --> 00:17:21,900 grief. Oh no. It was the low stifled sound that arises from 187 00:17:21,900 --> 00:17:26,160 the bottom of a soul when overcharged with all I knew that 188 00:17:26,160 --> 00:17:31,770 sound well. Many a night, just at midnight, when all the world 189 00:17:31,770 --> 00:17:36,930 slept. It is welled up in my own bosom deepening, with its 190 00:17:36,930 --> 00:17:43,080 dreadful echo, the terrors that distracted me. I say I knew it's 191 00:17:43,080 --> 00:17:50,850 well. I knew what the old man felt, and pity them. Although I 192 00:17:50,850 --> 00:17:55,800 chuckled at heart, I knew that he had been lying awake ever 193 00:17:55,800 --> 00:18:00,090 since the first slight noise when he had turned in the bed. 194 00:18:01,020 --> 00:18:05,250 His fears had been ever since growing upon him he had been 195 00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,820 trying to fancy them causeless but could not. He had been 196 00:18:08,820 --> 00:18:12,930 saying to himself, it was nothing but a wind in the 197 00:18:12,930 --> 00:18:17,850 chimney or it was only a mouse crossing the floor, or it was 198 00:18:17,850 --> 00:18:22,740 merely a cricket that was made a single church. Yes, he had been 199 00:18:22,740 --> 00:18:26,490 trying to comfort himself with these suppositions but he was 200 00:18:26,490 --> 00:18:32,970 found all in vain. All in vain, because death, in approaching 201 00:18:32,970 --> 00:18:38,070 him, had stocked with his black shadow before him and enveloped 202 00:18:38,070 --> 00:18:44,610 the victim. And was the mournful influence of the unperceived 203 00:18:44,610 --> 00:18:49,410 shadow that caused him to feel, although he neither saw nor 204 00:18:49,410 --> 00:18:57,180 heard, to feel the presence of my head within the room. When I 205 00:18:57,180 --> 00:19:02,160 had waited a long time very patiently, without hearing him 206 00:19:02,160 --> 00:19:08,040 lie down, I resolved to open a little, a very, very little 207 00:19:08,040 --> 00:19:14,490 crevice in the lantern. So I opened it. You cannot imagine 208 00:19:14,760 --> 00:19:20,700 how stealthily, stealthily until, at length, a simple dim 209 00:19:20,700 --> 00:19:24,390 array, like the threat of a spider shot out from the crevice 210 00:19:24,390 --> 00:19:30,780 and fell upon the vulture, I. It was open, wide, wide open, and I 211 00:19:30,780 --> 00:19:34,950 grew furious As I gazed upon it. I saw it with perfect 212 00:19:34,950 --> 00:19:38,940 distinctness all a dull blue with a hideous veil over it, and 213 00:19:38,940 --> 00:19:43,440 it chilled the very marrow in my bones. But I could see nothing 214 00:19:43,470 --> 00:19:48,570 else of the old man's face or person, for I had directed the 215 00:19:48,570 --> 00:19:53,640 array as if by instinct precisely upon the damned spot. 216 00:19:54,990 --> 00:19:58,710 And Have I not told you that what you mistake from madness is 217 00:19:58,710 --> 00:20:04,320 but an over acuteness of sensors. Now, I say, there came 218 00:20:04,320 --> 00:20:11,490 to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watchmaker when 219 00:20:11,490 --> 00:20:17,580 enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well too, and was the 220 00:20:17,580 --> 00:20:25,320 beating of the old man's heart. It increased my theory, as the 221 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:31,140 beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage. But even 222 00:20:31,140 --> 00:20:37,050 yet I refrained and kept still. I scarcely breathe. I held the 223 00:20:37,050 --> 00:20:41,010 lantern motionless. I tried how steadily I could maintain the 224 00:20:41,010 --> 00:20:46,560 array upon the eye. Meantime, the hellish tattoo of the heart 225 00:20:46,560 --> 00:20:51,930 increased. It grew quicker and quicker, and louder and louder 226 00:20:51,930 --> 00:20:56,790 with every instant the old man's terror must have been extreme. 227 00:20:57,000 --> 00:21:01,890 It grew louder and louder, louder every moment do you mark 228 00:21:01,890 --> 00:21:06,120 me? Well, then I have told you that I am nervous so I am. And 229 00:21:06,120 --> 00:21:09,270 now in the dead hour of nights amid the dreadful silence of the 230 00:21:09,270 --> 00:21:12,780 old house so strange noise as this excited me to 231 00:21:12,780 --> 00:21:16,770 uncontrollable terror. Yet for some minutes longer, I've 232 00:21:16,770 --> 00:21:20,970 refrained and stood still. But the beating grew louder and 233 00:21:20,970 --> 00:21:27,180 louder. I thought the heart must burst. And now the new anxiety 234 00:21:27,180 --> 00:21:31,320 seized me. The sound would be heard by a neighbor. The old 235 00:21:31,320 --> 00:21:34,440 man's our had come with a loud yellow light through open the 236 00:21:34,440 --> 00:21:39,510 lantern and leapt into the room. He shrieked once only once, and 237 00:21:39,510 --> 00:21:42,750 in an instant I dragged him to the floor and pulled the heavy 238 00:21:42,750 --> 00:21:49,470 bed over him. I then smiled to Gailey to find the deed so far 239 00:21:49,470 --> 00:21:55,320 done, but for many minutes, the heartbeat on with a muffled 240 00:21:55,320 --> 00:21:55,860 sound. 241 00:21:57,270 --> 00:22:02,460 This, however, did not vex me. It would not be heard through 242 00:22:02,460 --> 00:22:11,850 the wall. At length, it ceased. The old man was dead. I removed 243 00:22:11,850 --> 00:22:16,470 the bed and examined the corpse. Yes, he was stone stone dead. I 244 00:22:16,470 --> 00:22:19,320 placed my hand upon the heart and held it there for many 245 00:22:19,320 --> 00:22:26,010 minutes. There was no pulsation. He was stone dead, his eye would 246 00:22:26,010 --> 00:22:32,160 trouble me no more. If still you think me mad, he will think so 247 00:22:32,160 --> 00:22:35,820 no longer. When I described the wise precautions I took for the 248 00:22:35,820 --> 00:22:40,230 concealment of the body. The night waned, and I worked 249 00:22:40,230 --> 00:22:43,620 hastily, but in silence. First of all, I dismembered the 250 00:22:43,620 --> 00:22:48,120 corpse. I cut off the head and arms and legs. I then took up 251 00:22:48,120 --> 00:22:52,770 three planks from the floor of the chamber, and deposited all 252 00:22:52,800 --> 00:22:58,140 between this gatlings. I then replaced the board so cleverly, 253 00:22:58,200 --> 00:23:04,680 cunningly, that no human is not even his could have detected 254 00:23:04,680 --> 00:23:09,420 anything was wrong. There was nothing to wash out no stain of 255 00:23:09,420 --> 00:23:14,100 any kind, no bloodspot whatever. I had been too weary for that. 256 00:23:14,730 --> 00:23:20,550 The tub had caught all. When I had made an end of these labors, 257 00:23:20,550 --> 00:23:25,620 it was four o'clock. Still dark is midnight. As the bell sounded 258 00:23:25,620 --> 00:23:31,320 the hour, there came a knocking at the street door. I went down 259 00:23:31,320 --> 00:23:34,440 to open it with a light heart for what had I to fear now. 260 00:23:35,760 --> 00:23:39,660 They're entered three men, who introduced themselves with 261 00:23:39,660 --> 00:23:43,830 perfect suavity, as officers of the police. A shriek had been 262 00:23:43,830 --> 00:23:47,190 heard by a neighbor during the night suspicion of foul play had 263 00:23:47,190 --> 00:23:50,340 been aroused information had been lodged at the police 264 00:23:50,340 --> 00:23:55,320 office, and they the officers, had been deputed to search the 265 00:23:55,320 --> 00:24:01,950 premises. I smile, for what had I to fear. I bade the gentleman 266 00:24:01,950 --> 00:24:06,840 welcome. The shriek, I said, was my own in a dream. The old man I 267 00:24:06,840 --> 00:24:11,130 mentioned was absent in the country. I took my visitors all 268 00:24:11,130 --> 00:24:17,610 over the house, I bade them search search well. I led them 269 00:24:17,730 --> 00:24:21,630 at length to his chamber. I showed them His treasures, 270 00:24:21,630 --> 00:24:25,920 secure, undisturbed, and the enthusiasm of my confidence I 271 00:24:25,920 --> 00:24:29,790 brought chairs into the room, and desired them here to rest 272 00:24:29,790 --> 00:24:34,680 from their fatigues, while I myself in the wild audacity of 273 00:24:34,680 --> 00:24:40,530 my perfect triumph, placed my own seat upon the various spots 274 00:24:40,530 --> 00:24:45,720 beneath which repurposed the corpse of the victim the 275 00:24:45,720 --> 00:24:50,490 officers were satisfied. My mana had convinced them I was 276 00:24:50,490 --> 00:24:59,670 singularly at ease. They sat while they sat and while I 277 00:24:59,670 --> 00:25:04,320 answered Surely they chattered with familiar matters. But ere 278 00:25:04,320 --> 00:25:09,240 long I felt myself getting pale and wished them gone. My head 279 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:14,670 ached, and I fancied a ringing in my ears but still, they sat 280 00:25:14,670 --> 00:25:23,370 and chatted. The ringing became more distinct, it continued and 281 00:25:23,400 --> 00:25:28,260 became more distinct. I talked more freely to get rid of the 282 00:25:28,260 --> 00:25:33,930 feeling, but it continued and gain definiteness until at 283 00:25:33,930 --> 00:25:45,300 length, I found that the noise was not within my ears and now, 284 00:25:45,720 --> 00:25:50,310 I grew very pale, but I talked more fluently, and with a 285 00:25:50,310 --> 00:25:54,660 heightened voice yet the sound increased. And what could I do? 286 00:25:55,530 --> 00:26:00,180 It was a low dole quick sound much such a sound as a watch 287 00:26:00,180 --> 00:26:07,380 makes when enveloped in cotton. I gasped for breath, and yet the 288 00:26:07,380 --> 00:26:12,660 officers heard it not. I talked more quickly more vehemently, 289 00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:17,490 but the noise steadily increased. I arose I argued 290 00:26:17,490 --> 00:26:21,120 about trifles, and a high key with violent gesticulations but 291 00:26:21,120 --> 00:26:25,770 the noise steadily increased. Why would they not be gone? I 292 00:26:25,770 --> 00:26:30,150 paced the floor to and fro with heavy strides as the as if 293 00:26:30,150 --> 00:26:35,160 excited by the observations of the men, but the noise steadily 294 00:26:35,160 --> 00:26:40,320 increased. Oh, God, what could I do? I phoned I raved. I swore I 295 00:26:40,320 --> 00:26:40,830 swung 296 00:26:40,830 --> 00:26:44,310 the chair upon which I had been sitting and grated it up on the 297 00:26:44,310 --> 00:26:48,660 floorboards. But the noise arose above all, and continually 298 00:26:48,660 --> 00:26:53,460 increased. It grew louder and louder. And still the min 299 00:26:53,460 --> 00:26:57,510 chatted pleasantly, and smiled. Was it possible they heard not 300 00:26:57,510 --> 00:27:03,150 almighty God? No, no, they heard they suspected they knew. And 301 00:27:03,150 --> 00:27:07,350 they were making a mockery of my horror. This I thought in this I 302 00:27:07,380 --> 00:27:11,730 think, but anything would be better than this agony. Anything 303 00:27:11,730 --> 00:27:14,850 was more tolerable than this derision. I could bear those 304 00:27:14,850 --> 00:27:19,560 hypocritical smiles no longer I felt that I must scream or die 305 00:27:19,560 --> 00:27:25,920 and now again Hawk louder. Louder. Louder villains I 306 00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:30,720 streaked the symbol no more I admit the deed tear up the 307 00:27:30,720 --> 00:27:35,880 planks hair here it's the beating of this hideous art 308 00:27:56,700 --> 00:27:59,370 our last election for the evening will be Annabel Lee 309 00:27:59,970 --> 00:28:27,930 Annabel Lee was posed last completed poem Annabel Lee It 310 00:28:27,930 --> 00:28:34,650 was many and many a year ago in the kingdom by the sea that a 311 00:28:34,650 --> 00:28:40,530 maiden there lived um you may know by the name of Annabel Lee. 312 00:28:42,060 --> 00:28:47,700 And this maiden, she lived with no other thoughts than to love 313 00:28:47,880 --> 00:28:54,000 and be loved by me. I was a child and she was a child in 314 00:28:54,000 --> 00:29:00,390 this kingdom by the sea. But we loved with the love that was 315 00:29:00,390 --> 00:29:07,320 more than love. I and my Annabelle the with the love that 316 00:29:07,320 --> 00:29:13,530 the wings sheriff's of Heaven coveted her and me. And this was 317 00:29:13,530 --> 00:29:20,970 the reason that long ago in this kingdom by the sea, a wind blew 318 00:29:20,970 --> 00:29:27,090 out of the cloud, chilling my beautiful Annabel Lee, so that 319 00:29:27,090 --> 00:29:33,390 her high born kinsmen came and bought her away from me to shut 320 00:29:33,390 --> 00:29:40,710 her up and separate occur, and this kingdom by the sea. The 321 00:29:40,710 --> 00:29:46,290 angels not have so happy in heaven went in being her and me. 322 00:29:47,340 --> 00:29:52,500 Yes, that was the reason as all men know in this kingdom by the 323 00:29:52,500 --> 00:29:59,340 sea, that the wind came out of a cloud by night. Chilling and 324 00:29:59,340 --> 00:30:06,570 killing My Annabel Lee but our love is stronger by far than the 325 00:30:06,570 --> 00:30:12,420 love of those who are older than we have many far wiser than me. 326 00:30:13,890 --> 00:30:17,970 And neither the angels in heaven above nor the demons down under 327 00:30:17,970 --> 00:30:23,220 the sea can ever discover my soul from the soul of the 328 00:30:23,220 --> 00:30:29,190 beautiful Annabel Lee. For the moon never beams without 329 00:30:29,190 --> 00:30:34,860 bringing me dreams of the beautiful Annabel Lee. And the 330 00:30:34,860 --> 00:30:40,920 stars never rise. But I feel the bright eyes of the beautiful 331 00:30:41,550 --> 00:30:49,530 Annabel Lee. And so, all the night tide I lie down by the 332 00:30:49,530 --> 00:30:59,400 side of my darling, my darling, my life and my bride in the sub 333 00:30:59,400 --> 00:31:24,960 liquor there by the sea in her tomb by the sounding sea. The 334 00:31:24,960 --> 00:31:27,390 Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore, Maryland has 335 00:31:27,390 --> 00:31:30,570 identified 11 versions of Annabel Lee, that were published 336 00:31:30,570 --> 00:31:35,640 between 1849 and 1850. The biggest variation is in the 337 00:31:35,640 --> 00:31:40,110 final line. The original manuscript reads and her tomb by 338 00:31:40,110 --> 00:31:44,730 the side of the sea the alternate version in her tomb by 339 00:31:44,730 --> 00:31:49,230 the sounding see Well, that's all for this episode, folks. Our 340 00:31:49,230 --> 00:31:52,650 theme music is into the unknown by od Sprite, more of their 341 00:31:52,650 --> 00:31:55,920 music can be found at odd sprite.com Mitas pod is released 342 00:31:55,920 --> 00:31:58,110 under a Creative Commons Attribution non commercial no 343 00:31:58,110 --> 00:32:00,600 derivatives license, that means you can share it all you like 344 00:32:00,600 --> 00:32:03,810 just don't change it or sell it. And I'd like to say thank you to 345 00:32:03,810 --> 00:32:05,970 all the folks here at World Travel beer and Goldsboro, North 346 00:32:05,970 --> 00:32:08,700 Carolina for coming out and having a drink and watching me 347 00:32:08,700 --> 00:32:09,570 talk to my computer. 348 00:32:16,050 --> 00:32:18,570 We'll see you next time folks. Have a good one.