AN ADJUSTMENT OF NATURE and THE LOVE PHILTRE OF IKEY SCHOENSTEIN by O.HENRY
1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales
Jon Hagadorn
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🗓️ 16 November 2022
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Two great short stories from the master of plot twists- O. Henry, Enjoy!
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| 0:00.0 | And the Yeah, Welcome back everyone to |
| 0:30.4 | the one thousand one classic short stories and tales. |
| 0:34.2 | Today, two great stories from O Henry. |
| 0:36.8 | The first, an adjustment of nature, |
| 0:39.2 | and the second, the love filter of Icky Schoenstein. |
| 0:47.0 | And now an adjustment of nature. |
| 0:51.5 | In an art exhibition the other day, I saw a painting that had been sold for $5,000. The painter |
| 0:55.5 | was a young scrub out of the West named Kraft who had a favorite food and a pet |
| 1:00.1 | theory. His Pabulum was an unquenchable belief in the unerring artistic adjustment of nature. |
| 1:07.0 | His theory was fixed around corn-beav hash with post egg. |
| 1:11.0 | There was a story behind the picture, so I went home and let it drip out of a fountain pen. |
| 1:16.6 | The idea of Kraft, but that is not the beginning of the story. |
| 1:20.8 | Three years ago Kraft, Bill Judkins, a poet, and I took our meals at Cyphers on 8th Avenue. |
| 1:28.0 | I say took. When we had money, Cypher got it off of us, as he expressed it. |
| 1:33.9 | We had no credit. |
| 1:35.2 | We went in, called for food, and ate it. |
| 1:37.6 | We paid, or we did not pay. |
| 1:40.2 | We had confidence in Cypher's sulleniness and smoldering porosity. |
| 1:43.6 | Deep down in his sunless soul he was either a prince, a fool, or an artist. |
| 1:49.0 | He sat at a worm-eaten desk, covered with files of waiter's checks so old that I was sure the |
| 1:54.8 | bottomist one was for claims that Hendrik Hudson had eaten and paid for. |
| 1:59.7 | Seifer had the power, in common with Napoleon III, of throwing a film over his eyes, rendering |
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