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The Rayless Reverie is intended for all. My goal for this podcast is to help people escape from the hustle of our daily lives, help heal our depression, help us fall asleep when our anxious minds won't allow us to be free, and take a journey and learn from characters written throughout classic literature. Feel free to come to this safe space whenever you please. These works of art were created for us and still have such beautiful meanings and I hope to keep them alive. Welcome To The Rayless Reverie.
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✨ Our Story Today :
Planting A Pear Tree
by Songling Pu
“You have several hundred pears on your barrow; I ask for a single one, the loss of which, Sir, you would not feel. Why then get angry?”
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The Fox And The Cat
from Aesop's Fables
“What sort of education have you had? How many arts are you master of?"
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Why The Goat Lives With Mankind
from Folk-Tales of The Khasis
by Mrs. Rafy
"Ka Blang was so upset by this sudden interruption, and in such fear of the big and ferocious beast, that she began to tremble from head to foot, so that even her beard shook violently, and she hardly knew what she was doing or saying."
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Panic Fears
by Anton Tchekhov
"I was seized with a feeling of loneliness, misery, and horror, as though I had been flung down against my will into this great hole full of shadows..."
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A Moonlight Fable
by H.G. Wells
"Now all these restrictions his mother set to the wearing of his suit he obeyed, always he obeyed them, until one strange night he woke up and saw the moonlight shining outside his window."
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An Uncomfortable Bed
by Julian Hawthorne
'During the entire evening, everyone laughed in an exaggerated fashion. I smelled a practical joke in the air, as a dog smells game. But what was it? "
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The Lark And Its Young Ones
by P.V. Ramaswami Raju
"At home, we are three", said the child, "myself and two sisters".
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The Selfish Giant
by Oscar Wilde
“I cannot understand why the Spring is so late in coming,” said the Selfish Giant, as he sat at the window and looked out at his cold white garden; “I hope there will be a change in the weather.”
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An Eloquence Of Grief
by Stephen Crane
"No one seemed to notice the girl, and there was no reason why she should be noticed, if the curious in the body of the court-room were not interested in the devastation which tears bring upon some complexions."
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The Black Patch
by Randolph Hartley
"Slowly but clearly my mind advanced through the process of self-identification, and memory brought me to the moment of my last conscious thought. With a mingled feeling of curiosity and dread I opened my eyes."
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Arletta
by Margaret Ade
"I am going into this bit of family history so you will understand—so you will see this affair from my viewpoint."
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The Detail
by Stephen Crane
"The tiny old lady's eyes were upon them. She was quaintly serious, silently expectant. She made one marvel that in that face the wrinkles showed no trace of experience, knowledge; they were simply little, soft, innocent creases. As for her glance, it had the trustfulness of ignorance and the candour of babyhood."
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The Winner's Loss
by Elliot Flower
"He was not drunk—positively, he was not drunk, for he recalled everything distinctly, but he did fraternize briefly with the jovial stranger. "
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The Bad Man
by Harry C. Goodwin
“I would like to say something, judge, ’cause I got a hunch you’ll understand. I got a feelin’ you’d done the same thing I did."
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Thicker Than Water
by Ralph Henry Barbour + George Randolph Osbourne
"When he entered the operating room the boy gave a low cry of pain, bent over the form on the table, and pressed his lips to the white forehead. When he looked up his eyes were filled with tears. He nodded to the surgeon."
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Housework - And The Man
by Freeman Tilden
“Well, Mrs. Kincaid, please don’t bother to do that. Really, I’m afraid I enjoy dirt.”
“Nobody enjoys dirt,” was her severe reply. “Not if they can be clean.”
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Man May Love
by Robert Sharp
“What I want to know, Heine, is this - When do we ever get a fair chance at a man? We don’t get away from the hospital long enough at a time to capture one, and here, where we receive proposals every day, it’s against the rules to marry the patients.”
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In Cold Blood
by Joseph Hall
"In an instant she was hot with anger and hurt pride. She rose quickly and dressed for the street. She hurried. She must get away. She had no right in this room, in this house, in the house of a man who did not love her."
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John Mortonson's Funeral
by Ambrose Bierce
"...but in the presence of death reason and philosophy are silent."
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Her Memory
by Dwight M. Wiley
“Your charms are very potent, moon maid,” he said, “it is magic, isn’t it? It — it doesn’t happen like this — really.”
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Two Timer
by Fredric Brown
( Experiment )
"He leaned forward and set one of the dials on the time machine. "Look at your watches," he said."
( Sentry )
"When the chips are down, though, it was still the foot soldier, the infantry, that had to take the ground and hold it, foot by bloody foot."
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The Princess and The Apple - Tree
by A. A. Milne
"And Summer came, but Silvio did not come, and Autumn came, and still she thought of Silvio. "
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The Lie
By Holloway Horn
"...although Carruthers had always been rather a proposition. But now it seemed hopeless — a man cannot strive with a memory."
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The Eyes Have It
by Philip K. Dick
"It took some time for the full import to sink in. After I’d comprehended, it seemed odd I hadn’t noticed it right away."
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That Wretched Boy
by Anton Tchekhov
"But there is no such thing as absolute happiness in this life. If happiness itself does not contain a poison, poison will enter in from without."
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The Child's Story
by Charles Dickens
"But, the traveller lost them one day, as he had lost the rest of his friends, and, after calling to them to come back, which they never did, went on upon his journey."
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The Heavenly Christmas Tree
by Fiodor Dostoievski
"He was ready to cry again but he was afraid, and ran on and on and blew his fingers. And he was miserable because he felt suddenly so lonely and terrified, and all at once, mercy on us!"
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The Christmas Present
by Richmal Crompton
"She had borne it for ten years, so surely she could go on with it. Yet today, as she gazed hopelessly at the wintry country side, she became acutely conscious that she could not go on with it. Something must happen. Yet what was there that could happen?
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The Log
by Guy de Maupassant
"No, you understand nothing about the subject. It seems to me that real love must unsettle the mind, upset the nerves and distract the head; that it must--how shall I express it?--be dangerous, even terrible, almost criminal and sacrilegious; that it must be a kind of treason; I mean to say that it is bound to break laws, fraternal bonds, sacred obligations; when love is tranquil, easy, lawful and without dangers, is it really love?"
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The Wicked Prince
by Hans Christian Andersen
"The prince often looked with delight upon his gold and his magnificent edifices, and thought, like the crowd: "What a mighty prince! But I must have more– much more. No power on earth must equal mine, far less exceed it." "
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Amy's Question
by T.S. Arthur
"... See what a great road of light lies across the water! Isn't it beautiful, mother? And it makes me feel so quiet and happy. I wonder why it is?"
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The Father
by Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Is there anything else?" inquired the priest, and looked up."
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The Glass Dog
by L. Frank Baum
" There is something almost astonishing in the magic arts of wizards; unless, of course, you know how to do the things yourself, when you are not expected to be surprised at them."
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The Drunkard
by Guy de Maupassant
" He was no longer moving, dazed by fright, bewildered, fearing the devil, ghosts, all the mysterious beings of darkness, and he waited a long time without daring to move. But when he found out that nothing else was moving, a little reason returned to him, the reason of a drunkard."
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The Petting Zoo
by Peter de Niverville
" But there was something odd. Something missing. Where are the flies? thought Johnson. On most farms the low buzz of the black swarms was constant. But here there was none. Except for the moaning of the wind, it was quiet."
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The Hand by Guy de Maupassant
" But if, instead of using the word 'supernatural' to express what we do not understand, we were simply to make use of the word 'inexplicable,' it would be much better."
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The Bet
by Anton Tchekhov
"Capital punishment and life-imprisonment are equally immoral; but if I were offered the choice between them, I would certainly choose the second. It's better to live somehow than not to live at all."
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