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🗓️ 25 July 2017
⏱️ 41 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Levar Burton and this is Levar Burton Reads. |
0:09.7 | In every episode, I handpick a different piece of short fiction and read it to you. |
0:14.7 | And the only thing these stories have in common is that I love them and I hope you will |
0:19.5 | too. |
0:25.8 | Today's story is by the one, the only Neil Gaiman. |
0:31.3 | It's called Shivalry and it's from his collection called Smoke and Mirrors from William |
0:36.0 | Marrow. |
0:37.0 | Now, full disclosure, y'all, I am a huge Neil Gaiman fan. |
0:41.7 | I love this man and I honestly think that he possesses the G-Work. |
0:46.6 | That's right, I'm just going to say it genius. |
0:48.6 | I think this man is a genius. |
0:51.5 | If you don't know Neil Gaiman's work and you should, this story is a great idea. |
0:55.8 | He is a little lighter than most of what he normally gives us. |
1:00.2 | The protagonist is a little old lady who lives a pleasant, quiet life, reading her romance |
1:06.4 | novels and visiting with her friends. |
1:09.2 | Now the word Shivalry in the context of this story is kind of loaded. |
1:14.8 | It's an old fashioned word which is why it's interesting that he used this for a modern |
1:21.5 | day kind of story. |
1:23.8 | And maybe it makes you think of men holding open doors for women and maybe it makes you |
1:27.8 | think of knighthood. |
1:29.1 | Maybe you think about courage and honor being ready and willing to help out. |
1:35.8 | It makes me think of all of these things. |
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