Satan at the Center of the Sun (Special Episode)
Young Heretics
Spencer Klavan
4.9 • 4.5K Ratings
🗓️ 5 January 2024
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Over on Substack, I’ve been gradually creating an audiobook reading of Milton’s epic poem of mankind’s fall, Paradise Lost. It’s one of the greatest works of English literature, well…ever. So this Friday, I thought I’d do something a little different: this is a free sample of the audiobook so you can get a feel for the poem and see whether you’d like to sign up to hear the rest. So here’s Paradise Lost Book 3, read aloud by yours truly.
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Transcript
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| 0:14.4 | Hey guys, happy Friday. Welcome back to Young Herritics. This is going to be something a little bit different today. Usually on Fridays if you're just joining us. I've been doing a series of |
| 0:18.6 | interviews called Young Hertics Conversations where I'll just sit down and |
| 0:21.8 | talk with people that I find interesting whose work I think is hopeful or inspiring and I'm going to keep doing those in this new year in 2024. |
| 0:30.0 | I've got a pretty good lineup scheduled and I really have been enjoying them. |
| 0:34.4 | I hope you have to. |
| 0:35.6 | As always if you've got people you'd like to hear on the podcast, like to have a conversation |
| 0:40.1 | between me and somebody that you know, just shoot me an email you can get in touch |
| 0:44.2 | with me via my substack rejoicevermore dot substack.com and let me know many |
| 0:49.8 | recommendations I do have a good lineup scheduled, but more is always better. I also, though, want to experiment with some other fun Friday things that we can do in this new year. So I'm going to be tossing out a few extras onto the feed as well. |
| 1:03.0 | And today what I wanted to bring you is an excerpt from the epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton. |
| 1:12.0 | So over on that sub-stack that I mentioned, |
| 1:14.8 | Rejoice Evermore, I've been doing kind of like building an |
| 1:19.3 | audio book in gradual installments where I will just read one section of the poem every so often |
| 1:26.6 | and so you'll get you like a little 30 minute section of this grand epic poem. |
| 1:31.4 | It started at the beginning and I've just been working my way through. |
| 1:33.6 | It's not like the regular Young Heretics episodes where I comment or explain things. |
| 1:37.7 | I really just read the thing aloud and so gradually if you were a paid subscriber you will be getting a full audio book of this |
| 1:45.1 | master work and so I wanted to share it with you just so you can get a flavor of |
| 1:51.2 | it one of the things that I hear a lot from you guys when you |
| 1:54.6 | listen to the show is like you know I'm talking about great literature and all of |
| 1:58.8 | these really important works of the Western canon and you'll say I think very understandably you know I can |
| 2:06.3 | tell these are great I know that they're worthwhile and I even would like to read them |
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