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"You've probably heard the old children's song. "There's a hole in my bucket, dear Liza, dear Liza.""
Returning from a long hiatus due to having received donations. Thank you!
This audiobook is about to have a Patreon, in order to continue to have more episodes that are not a year apart. After Patreon reviews it, the link will appear in the show notes for the next episode. In the meantime, the discussion about the Patreon is taking place in the Reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/unsong/comments/9meqfd/unsong_audiobook/
This is a serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%95-theres-a-hole-in-my-bucket/
Episode 23
Duration: 13:48
"Sitting in bed with her computer on her lap, Erica Lowry watched the sun rise and writing the news."
If you'd like to help make episodes appear more often, please use my tip jar at:
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A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
https://unsongbook.com/chapter-12-borne-on-angels-wings/
Episode 22
Duration: 16:44
"LSD became illegal in California in 1966, two years before the real world got so hallucinatory that it became redundant."
If you'd like to help make episodes appear more often, please use my tip jar at:
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A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
https://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%94-the-right-hand-of-god/
Episode 21
Duration: 03:29
"Time and chance, according to the Book of Ecclesiastes, happeneth to us all. Ana had planned to sleep in, but it so happeneth that she woke up hungry and found herself out of milk. She threw on an old t-shirt – one she had gotten at a theodicy conference a few years ago, with the motto WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMAKER? on the front – grabbed a shopping bag, and headed out to the 7-11 on the corner."
Sorry for the delay between episodes. As a freelancer, my financial situation is quite feast-and-famine, and I needed to recover from famine. I did not quite get a feast, so there may be another famine in the near future. Thanks for your patience. If you'd like to help make episodes appear more often, please use my tip jar at:
https://cash.me/$MattArnold
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/chapter-11-drive-the-just-man-into-barren-climes/
Episode 20
Duration: 13:44
"The shortest effective Name of God is the Tetragrammaton. This was the Name recorded in the Bible, the one the High Priests of Israel would speak in the Temple of Solomon. The rabbis said it was so holy that God would smite any impure person who said it. Some of them went on wild flights of raptures about the holiness of this Name, said it was the Shem haMephorash, the holiest Name of all.
In these more enlightened times, we know better. We call it the Mortal Name, and it just so happens to be a Name whose power is to kill the speaker."
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/interlude-%D7%93-n-grammata/
Episode 19
Duration 10:10
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"Campus library hadn't changed much since I got expelled. I checked out three big books without even so much as a "You don't look like an Ana Thurmond," let alone UNSONG goons hauling me off somewhere. Thank goodness for automatic card reader machines."
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/chapter-10-bring-the-swift-arrows-of-light/
Episode 18
Duration 09:09
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"WE SAY THAT MAN WAS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD," said Uriel. "BUT GOD IS INEFFABLE AND WITHOUT PHYSICAL FORM. RESOLVE THE PARADOX."
"I'm hungry," said Sohu."
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/chapter-9-with-art-celestial/
Episode 17
Duration 16:16
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"Love is the law, but it is poorly enforced. — Reverend Raymond Stevens, "Singers In The Hands Of An Angry God""
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/chapter-8-laughing-to-scorn-thy-laws-and-terrors/
Episode 16
Duration 31:45
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"My watch read 5 AM. Bill Dodd lived an hour's walk away, close to the weird morass of swamps and mud flats that passed for the San Francisco Bay in this area. He woke up around six and left at seven for some tutoring job up in the North Bay. I figured by the time I got to his home, it would be just about morning and I could catch him while he was getting ready."
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/chapter-7-the-perishing-vegetable-memory/
Episode 15
Duration 22:58
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"The computer whirred and chattered: the speaker producing Names faster than the ear could follow. I stared at the screen. I already knew I wouldn't sleep tonight."
A serialized story narrated by Matt Arnold with the permission of the author, Scott Alexander. Here is the website on which he is publishing the text:
http://unsongbook.com/chapter-6-till-we-have-built-jerusalem/
Episode 14
Duration 21:54
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