Chapter 40: Virginia Woolf, featuring Mary Holland

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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4.9 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 November 2014

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 40: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) learns who is afraid of Virginia Woolf (Mary Holland) and it turns out to be H.G. Wells.

Thanks to The Time Travel Mart and 826LA.

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

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0:00.0	This podcast is intended as entertainment for grown-ups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18.
0:08.6	Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826LA's events and programs, including the time travel
0:14.6	Mart, with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the
0:18.9	host of the Dead Authors Podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:29.0	Hello all and welcome to Chapter 40 of the Dead Authors Podcast. I am your host, H.G. Wells, and I give you my thanks for downloading this latest
0:36.7	installment of our program. Do you see what I did there? I verbally doffed my
0:41.5	metaphorical chapeau to your American holiday of Thanksgiving.
0:45.7	After all, it's just round the corner as the abundance of Christmas merchandise spilling over
0:50.5	onto the last of the discounted Halloween merchandise at your local apothecary will attest.
0:56.0	As a noted secularist, I've always loved Thanksgiving, or Harvest Festival, as we call it Cross the Pond. It's a yearly chance to eat
1:04.7	yourself silly and roll your eyes at your relatives without all the bother of
1:08.5	dragging a mythical deity into the proceedings. What could be better? This year I made it my business as a time
1:15.9	traveler and de facto historian to do a bit of digging into the American
1:20.5	Thanksgiving tradition. I know what you're thinking. Why not set the time
1:24.8	machine for Plymouth Rock, Circa 1621? Why not indeed, you plunkers? Perhaps you've heard of
1:31.5	a little thing called Smallpox. I shouldn't like to carry back a case with me across the ages,
1:37.0	not with the way you lot have been quarantining all manner of long distance travellers lately.
1:41.0	I've not the faintest desire to conduct
1:43.7	interviews with my departed literary peers and inferior, let's be honest, from
1:47.9	within the confines of a bloody pest tent, thank you very much. No. Instead, I travelled to Washington, D.C. in October of 1863, mere days
1:58.1	before President Abraham Lincoln was to proclaim the final Thursday of November a national day of Thanksgiving.
2:04.7	With the Civil War raging, the old Rail Splitter was doing his usual hemming and hawing over
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