Episode 229 - Seaton's Aunt - Part 1
The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast
Strange Studies of Strange Stories
4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2014
⏱️ 32 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | H.P. Podcraft.com. |
| 0:02.0 | I had heard rumors of Seton's aunt long before I actually encountered her. |
| 0:09.0 | Seton, in the hush of confidence or at any little show of toleration on our part would remark, |
| 0:15.3 | my aunt, or my old aunt, you know, as if his relative might be a kind of cement to an entente cordial. |
| 0:24.3 | From a boy's point of view, he looked distastefully foreign, with his yellow skin and slow chocolate |
| 0:30.1 | coloured eyes and lean lean weak figure. |
| 0:33.2 | Merely for his looks he was treated by most of us true blue Englishmen with condescension, |
| 0:38.6 | hostility, or contempt. |
| 0:41.3 | We used to call him Pongo, but without any better excuse for the nickname than his skin. |
| 0:47.2 | He was, that is, in one sense of the term, what he assuredly was not, in the other sense, a sport. |
| 0:54.0 | Seton and I were never in any sense intimate at school, |
| 0:58.0 | our orbits only intersected in class. |
| 1:01.0 | I kept instinctively aloof from him. I felt vaguely he was a sneak and remained quite |
| 1:07.2 | unmodified by advances on his side, which in a boy's barbarous fashion, unless it suited me to be magnanimous, I haughtily ignored. |
| 1:17.0 | That's |
| 1:27.0 | That's from the beginning of Walter Delameres, Seton's aunt, and you're listening to the HP Lovecraft literary podcast. |
| 1:28.6 | Here at HPPodcraft.com, I'm Chad Fyfer. |
| 1:31.1 | And I'm Chris Laki and our reader this week. We're using a standby one of the good ones rock solid |
| 1:38.1 | Rachel Lackey my wife there it is laying it down doing it right right, doing it for you. |
| 1:43.6 | We picked this one because the story, because it comes from H.B. |
| 1:47.0 | Lovecraft's supernatural horror and literature. |
| 1:49.6 | And Lovecraft mentioned this story in particular. |
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