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There lived in Westphalia in the castle of the Baron of Thunder Tentrunk, a young man on whom nature had bestowed the perfection of gentle manners.

His features admirably expressed his soul.

He combined an honest mind with great simplicity of heart,

and I think it was for this reason that they called him

Candide.

The old servants of the house suspected that he was the son of the Baron's sister by a respectable honest gentleman of the neighborhood, whom she had refused

to marry because he could prove only 71 quarterings.

The rest of his family tree having been lost in the passage of time.

That is the opening paragraph of Can Deed by Voltaire, a classic that might be stretching for us.

But what we're going to pull in here on HP Podcraft? Strange studies of strange stories.

I'm Chad Feifer. And I'm Chris Lackey who is that reader?

Why that was good old Levi Nunez. Levi's amazing he's talented you might know

Levi from his music his band lute the body who does Dungeons and Dragons theme songs, but he's

branching out into some other stuff. He's going to be doing another piece. I don't

know if I'm spoiling anything, but he's working on some songs right now. It's

going to be kind of a jet

jet Parsons kind of influenced sort of you know the JPL the sure I'm a big fan of the

genre of a cultist jet propulsion laboratory founders.

Well, I've been lobbying for Candide for quite a while.

It may be, as you say, is a stretch for the show

in that Candide isn't the first thing that comes to mind

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