BONUS: Daniel Wallace reads "Killings"
The Bitter Southerner Podcast
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🗓️ 18 February 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:17.0 | This Chuck Reese from the Bitter-Southerner Podcast. If you listen to the final episode, |
| 0:29.6 | episode six of our first season, then you heard the great Daniel Wallace reading from his |
| 0:35.9 | essay for us called Killings. Here is the full version of his reading, the whole story, enjoy. |
| 0:45.0 | Well, I killed the chicken. |
| 0:48.0 | That's my news. |
| 0:50.0 | I cut its head off with a hatchet the way people do. This chicken was the first |
| 0:58.9 | thing I'd ever set out to kill that I'd planned to kill over the course of many months and the truth is it was |
| 1:06.3 | weird exciting and sad. |
| 1:08.9 | I didn't kill it to eat though it was eventually eaten in a soup. I didn't kill it |
| 1:19.9 | because it was a trouble making chicken though it was a trouble making chicken. Though it was a trouble making chicken. |
| 1:24.7 | And I didn't kill it because it deserved to die, |
| 1:26.9 | whatever that means. |
| 1:28.6 | I killed it because I'd never killed a chicken before, |
| 1:32.1 | and I wanted to have that experience on my list of things I'd done, |
| 1:36.9 | sort of like going to Venice, to be able to say as I'm saying now, I killed a chicken. |
| 1:43.0 | So after talking about it engaging a few friends in my pursuit, many of whom had a similar desire. |
| 1:56.4 | Hunting for an appropriate venue, and I hoped, a seasoned killer to accompany me, I did it. And though you and |
| 2:04.0 | though you, you who's reading this now, you who may be a hunter of some kind, a gun owner, a gun owner, |
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