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Title: PC463: A Dozen By Dunsany
Post by: Ocicat on April 04, 2017, 10:31:10 PM

PodCastle 463: A Dozen By Dunsany (http://podcastle.org/2017/04/02/podcastle-463-a-dozen-by-dunsany/)

by Lord Dunsany

read by Wilson Fowlie, Setsu Uzume, Graeme Dunlop, Eric Luke, Matt Dovey, Aidan Doyle, Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali, Cheyenne Wright, Tina Connolly, Steve Anderson, Jen Albert, Amal el-Mohtar.

hosted by Peter Wood, MK Hobson, Dave Thompson.

First published in Fifty-One Tales in April, 1915.

Rated PG.

• The True Story of the Hare and the Tortoise
  Chosen by Samantha Brandt (Talia); Read by Wilson Fowlie
  Note: “I enjoyed the rather dark interpretation of a fable generally considered benign.”
• The Sphinx at Giza
  Chosen & Read by Setsu Uzume
  Note: “I love that the sense of doom and futility in all three, and the juxtaposition of eternal forces with finite human experience. It speaks to the artist’s experience, trying to capture something eternal in mediums as finite as smeared oils and chicken scratch.”
• The Song of the Blackbird
  Chosen & Read by Graeme Dunlop
  Note: “I love it for this line: “It was new then.” As in, everything old is new again.”
• The Tomb of Pan
  Chosen by Raj K. Gopal; Read by Eric Luke
  Note: “There is something beautiful to me about the holiness of joy and hedonism and humanity somehow managing to survive the holiness of sobriety and rigidity and ideology. “
• A Moral Little Tale
  Chosen & Read by Matt Dovey
  Note: “I don’t believe personal happiness can ever be an evil. There is an infinite pool of happiness to go around, if only we’d let each other share in it without judgement.”
• Death and the Orange
  Chosen & Read by Aidan Doyle
  Note: “I’ve had to deal with some strange fruit in my travels and I appreciate the description of “a small orange which had an evil laughter in its heart.”
• Alone the Immortals
  Chosen & Read by Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
  Note: “I was intrigued by the title and the melancholic/dark feel of the tale.”
• Time and the Tradesman
  Chosen by Krystal Claxton; Read by Cheyenne Wright
  Note: “So the personification of Time showed up in a lot, A LOT, of these and I liked “Time and the Tradesmen” best. The Roman god pettiness of Time smiting a human merely to state that he is not to be fucked with left me oddly satisfied.”
• The Sphinx in Thebes (Massachusetts)
  Chosen by Peter Wood; Read by Tina Connolly
• The Return of Song
  Chosen by Peter Wood; Read by Steve Anderson
• Charon
  Chosen & Read by Jen R. Albert
  Note: “It’s oddly sweet and I’ve always liked the whole boatman thing.”
• After the Fire
  Chosen by Troy Wiggins; Read by Amal El-Mohtar
  Note: “I like to think that mankind’s great ideas will outlive us even when everything that we know is destroyed. Also, we’re a lot more awesome than mammoths.”
  

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Title: Re: PC463: A Dozen By Dunsany
Post by: Lionman on April 04, 2017, 10:56:40 PM

I have to be honest...this set of stories zoned me out.  I was about three quarters through the first one, and I my brain was just not being held to the stories.  Later on, I found myself thinking, "Oh, is this episode still playing?"

I'm pretty sure I let it run all the way through, but I'm not sure I really heard all of it.  And while there were different narrators to help show the breaking from one story to the next, in the end that didn't really help me, as they didn't keep my attention.

Perhaps they would have been better off as flash pieces, in groups of 3 or maybe 4...or less?  Perhaps they would have been more memorable that way?