Posted on 12/16/2005 2:30:42 PM PST by jaime1959
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. In goes my hand into that wool-white bell-tongued ball of holidays resting at the rim of the carol-singing sea, and out come Mrs. Prothero and the firemen.
(Excerpt) Read more at undermilkwood.net ...
Typo and all?
Just kidding. Thanks.
What a stupid I am!
Any mods out there who can fix that?
Wow, looks good!
Thank you for some Christmas spirit!
Perhaps the Mods could correct the title of this thread. Quality MP3 audio for the text is here, if you can stand to visit Salon: http://www.salon.com/audio/2000/10/05/thomasd/
Man, those Mods are fast!
Here's a link
http://www.jerrywilliams.org/audio/Misc/misc01.m3u
> The late Jerry Williams,a well known talk host in Boston,NYC and Chicago would devote a show every Christmastime to reading this.It's classic stuff. <
I'm sure Jerry did a good job, but you can hear Thomas himself read it here.
There's also an excellent video version featuring Denholm Elliot available.
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