S0211 The Turn Of The Screw Part 2

Classic Ghost Stories

Tony Walker

Fiction, Drama, Science Fiction

4.9 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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S0211 The Turn Of The Screw Part 2I'm not going to say much. James's parenthetical insertions of information interrupt the flow of his sentences. He says something, the elaborates on it, then elaborates on that and sometimes elaborates on that as if his thoughts are sparking tangentially. He always comes back to the main matter, but it makes it hard to read out.That being moaned about, the story is good. He foreshadows well and creates foreboding." It may be, of course, above all, that what suddenly broke into this gives the previous time a charm of stillness—that hush in which something gathers or crouches. The change was actually like the spring of a beast."Nothing has yet happened, but he warns us that it soon will, and we tense up waiting for it.Then he describes a blissful summer evening's walk in the park which is interrupted by her seeing Quint (though she doesn't yet know his name) in the tower. The fact that it is on a beautiful summer night rather than a rainswept Gothic nighttime is well-done and serves to heighten the drama, I think.He ends each chapter with a good cliffhanger.- I wondered why...she was scared.- Mr Quint is .... dead.That's enough rabbiting for me. Check out the Substack newsletter for more news.Sign Up On https://bit.ly/2GgHv9D (The Classic Ghost Stories Podcast Substack Newsletter) For Exclusive Bonus Episodes!https://bit.ly/dalstonvampire (Download A Free Audiobook) of my story: The Dalston VampireMusicStart Music: "http://bit.ly/somecomeback (Some Come Back)" by the Heartwood Institute, Check our their new release for Halloween, Witch Season.End Music: "http://bit.ly/dvoynikdrowning (A Drowning)" by DvoynikSupport the showVisit us here: www.ghostpod.orgBuy me a coffee if you're glad I do this: https://ko-fi.com/tonywalkerIf you really want to help me, become a Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/barcudMusic by The Heartwood Institute: https://bit.ly/somecomeback Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Chapter 3
0:02.0	You'd try to get into the lock, drawn today, didn't you?
0:17.0	How do the dead come back, mother?
0:20.0	What's the secret?
0:22.0	Chapter 3
0:23.0	How thus turning her back on me was fortunately not for my just preoccupations, a snub that could check the growth of our mutual esteem.
0:34.3	We met, after I had brought home little miles more intimately than ever on the ground of my stupefaction, my general emotion, so monstrous was I then ready to pronounce it that such a child, as had now been revealed to me, should be under an interdict.
0:50.2	I was a little late on the scene, and I felt, as he stood wistfully looking out for me before
0:55.7	the door of the inn at which the coach had put him down, that I had seen him on the instant
1:00.9	without and within, in the great glow of freshness, the same positive fragrance of purity
1:07.1	in which I had, from the first moment, seen his little sister. He was incredibly
1:12.3	beautiful, and Mrs. Gross had put her finger on it. Everything but a sort of passion of tenderness
1:18.5	for him was swept away by his presence. When I then and there took him to my heart, for
1:24.3	something divine that I have never found to the same degree in any child.
1:28.4	His indescribable little air of knowing nothing in the world but love, it would have been
1:33.4	impossible to carry a bad name with a greater sweetness of innocence, and by the time I had
1:39.5	got back to bligh with him, I remained merely bewildered, so far that is, as I was not outraged, by the
1:46.2	sense of the horrible letter locked up in my room, in a drawer. As soon as I could compass
1:52.0	a private word with Mrs. Gross, I declared to her that it was grotesque. She promptly understood
1:58.2	me, you mean the cruel charge. It doesn't live an instant, my dear woman.
2:02.6	Look at him.
2:03.9	She smiled at my pretension to have discovered his charm.
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