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The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Episode 7 - The White Ship

The H.P. Lovecraft Literary Podcast

Strange Studies of Strange Stories

Fiction, Education, Science Fiction, Books, Arts

4.81.4K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2009

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Happy Birthday HPL!  Howie Phil was born August 20, 1890 and if he were alive today would be 119 years old! How do you like them apples?

Transcript

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0:00.0

H.P. Podcraft.com.

0:05.0

Okay, Chip, you are rolling.

0:07.0

Thank you.

0:10.0

Happy birthday to you.

0:14.0

Happy birthday to you.

0:17.0

Happy birthday, Mr. Lovecraft,

0:21.0

Mr. Lovecraft.

0:22.0

Happy birthday. I am Basil Elton, keeper of the North Point Light that my father and grandfather kept before me. Far from the shore stands the gray lighthouse, above sunken slimy rocks that are seen

0:46.5

when the tide is low, but unseen when the tide is high.

0:51.2

Past that beacon for a century have swept the majestic barks of the seven seas.

0:56.0

In the days of my grandfather, there were many.

0:58.0

In the days of my father, not so many.

1:01.0

And now, there are so few that I sometimes feel strangely alone as though I were the last man on our

1:08.6

planet.

1:09.6

Aah, wow, alone.

1:13.0

That was Andrew Lehman reading the first paragraph of the white ship.

1:16.8

The white ship?

1:19.0

And Andrew, again, doing a magnificent job.

1:21.5

Yeah, man. It's very comforting. I was I was thinking about this guy being all alone in that Lighthouse and how it feels like the last man on the planet and I thought if he had Andrew Lehman reading H.P. Lovecraft with him.

1:34.2

No, he wouldn't feel lonely at all. He wouldn't feel lonely at all.

1:36.8

Man.

1:37.8

Ain't that the truth?

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