BLIND MAN'S HOLIDAY by O.HENRY

1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales

Jon Hagadorn

Fiction, Arts

4.2 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 28 January 2019

⏱️ 54 minutes

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This engaging story takes place in New Orleans in the early 1900's, as a young man and woman get married spontaneously, but within hours the man begins to wonder if he has made the right decision, and goes back to the priest asking how he can annul the marriage. Through twists and turns and a surprise ending the man finds he still has a lot to learn. O.HENRY BEST STORIES. O.HENRY PODCAST. NEW Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Apple Devices here: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-greatest-love-stories/id1485751552 Enjoy 1001 Greatest Love Stories on Android devices here: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=479022&refid=stpr. Get all of our shows at one website: www.1001storiespodcast.com TEST YOUR HISTORY SMARTS! CATCH 1001 HISTORY CHALLENGE HERE: (main website all 1001 shows) https://www.1001storiespodcast.com or HERE: at Google Play: https://play.google.com/music/listen?u=0#/ps/Iwdojx2zx4jj2xj25fwupwrdcxq or HERE at Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-history-challenge/id1482436263 CALLING ALL FANS.. REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! REVIEWS NEEDED FOR NEW SHOWS! A SECOND NEW SHOW AT 1001- 1001 HISTORY'S BEST STORYTELLERS- OUR INTERVIEWS WITH SOME OF TODAY'S BEST HISTORY AUTHORS ...LINKS BELOW... all shows available at www.1001storiespodcast.com The Apple Podcast Link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-historys-best-storytellers/id1483649026 The Stitcher.com link for 1001 History's Best Storytellers is:: https://www.stitcher.com/s?fid=474955&refid=stpr. SUPPORT OUR SHOW BY BECOMING A PATRON! www.patreon.com/1001storiesnetwork. Its time I started asking for support! Thank you. Its a few dollars a month OR a one time. (Any amount is appreciated). YOUR REVIEWS AND SUBSCRIPTIONS AT APPLE/ITUNES AND ALL ANDROID HOSTS ARE NEEDED AND APPRECIATED! LINKS BELOW... Open these links to enjoy our shows! APPLE USERS Catch 1001 RADIO DAYS now at Apple iTunes! https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-radio-days/id1405045413?mt=2 Catch 1001 Heroes on any Apple Device here (Free): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-heroes-legends-histories-mysteries-podcast/id956154836?mt=2 Catch 1001 CLASSIC SHORT STORIES at iTunes/apple Podcast App Now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-classic-short-stories-tales/id1078098622 Catch 1001 Stories for the Road at iTunes/Apple Podcast now: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/1001-stories-for-the-road/id1227478901 ANDROID USERS- 1001 Radio Days right here at Player.fm FREE: https://player.fm/series/1001-radio-days 1001 Classic Short Stories & Tales:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Classic-Short-Stories-%26-Tales-id1323543?country=us 1001 Heroes, Legends, Histories & Mysteries: https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Heroes%2C-Legends%2C-Histories-%26-Mysteries-Podcast-id1323418?country=us 1001 Stories for the Road:https://castbox.fm/channel/1001-Stories-For-The-Road-id1324757?country=us Catch ALL of our shows at one place by going to www.1001storiesnetwork.com- our home website with Megaphone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Yeah, Welcome everyone to 1001 Classic Short Stories and Tales.
0:33.6	Today, Blind Man's Holiday
0:35.9	from one of our favorite authors, O Henry.
0:39.3	And now, our story.
0:48.0	Alas for the man and for the artist with the shifting point of perspective.
0:52.0	Life shall be a confusion of ways to the one. The landscape shall rise up and confound the other.
0:55.8	Take the case of Lorson. At one time he appeared to himself to be the feeblest of fools.
1:01.7	At another he conceived that he followed ideals so fine that the world was not yet
1:07.1	ready to accept them. During one mood he cursed his folly. Possessed by the other he bore himself with a serene grandeur
1:16.1	akin to greatness. In neither did he attain the perspective.
1:21.8	Generations before the name had been Larson. perspective. It's saving balance of thrift and industry.
1:34.2	From his point of perspective, he saw himself an outcast from society, forever to be a shady
1:39.6	skulker along the ragged edge of respectability.
1:43.0	A Denison de Tra quartz de Monge,
1:46.0	that pathetic spheroid lying between the Haut and the Demi,
1:50.0	whose inhabitants envy each of their neighbors and are scorned by both.
1:55.2	He was self-condemned to this opinion as he was self-exiled through it.
2:00.0	This quaint southern city a thousand miles from his former home.
2:04.0	Here he had dwelt for longer than a year,
2:07.0	knowing but few, keeping in a subjective world of shadows
2:11.5	which was invaded at times by the perplexing
2:14.1	bulks of jarring realities. Danny Bellin loved with a girl whom he met in a
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