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🗓️ 13 September 2019
⏱️ 36 minutes
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0:00.0 | H.P. Podcraft.com. |
0:02.0 | It is midnight. |
0:05.0 | Before dawn, they will find me and take me to a black cell where I shall languish interminently, while insatiable desires gnaw at my vitals and wither up my heart, |
0:19.2 | till at last I become one with the dead that I love. My seat is the fetid hollow of an aged grave. My desk |
0:28.5 | is the back of a fallen tombstone worn smooth by devastating centuries. |
0:34.5 | My only light is that of the stars and a thin-edged moon, |
0:38.5 | yet I can see as clearly as though it were midday. |
0:43.0 | Around me on every side, |
0:44.8 | sepulchral sentinels guarding unkempt graves. |
0:48.1 | The tilting decrepit headstones lie half hidden |
0:51.1 | in masses of nauseous rotting vegetation. |
0:55.0 | Above the rest, silhouetted against the livid sky. |
0:59.0 | An august monument lifts its austere tapering spire like the spectral chieftain of a l'Amurian horde. |
1:06.5 | The air is heavy with the noxious odors of fungi and the scent of damp moldy earth but to me it is the aroma of elyseum it is still |
1:20.2 | terrifyingly still with a silence whose very profundity to speaks the solemn and the hideous. |
1:27.0 | Could I choose my habitation? It would be in the heart of some such city of putrefying flesh and crumbling bones. |
1:37.2 | For their nearness sends ecstatic thrills through my soul, causing the stagnant blood to race through my veins and my |
1:44.5 | torpid heart to pound with delirious joy. For the presence of death is life to me. |
1:53.4 | If you were thinking this was from a goth gathering on Halloween night, you'd be wrong. |
1:59.5 | But only technically. |
2:02.2 | To me this sounds like an innovative goth office design. |
2:05.0 | You're going to love working here. |
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