Hello, welcome to the Bore You to Sleep podcast, the podcast that will hopefully help you get to sleep.

I am going to read an open source book, one that is not particularly interesting, but one that is

hopefully boring enough to get you to sleep.

From nearly all of the windows of the house, I can look out across the plane with no obstacle in the shape of a hill right

away to a blue line of distant forest and on the west side uninterruptedly to the

setting sun nothing but a green rolling plane with a sharp edge against the sunset.

I love those west windows better than any others and have chosen my bedroom on that side of the house

so that even times of hair brushing may not be entirely lost.

And the young woman who attends to such matters has been taught to fulfill her duties,

about a mistress, recumbent in an easy chair before an open window,

and not to profane with chatter that sweet and solemn time.

This girl is grieved at my habit of living almost in a garden and all her ideas as to the sort of life

of a respectable German lady should lead have got into a sad muddle since she came to me.

The people round about are persuaded that I am to put it as kindly as possible,

exceedingly eccentric for the news that has travelled that I spend

the day out of doors with a book and that no mortal lie has ever seen me sew or cook.

But why cook when you can get someone to cook for you?

And as for sewing, the maids will hem the sheets better and quicker than I could.

And all forms of needlework of the fancy order are inventions of the evil one for keeping the foolish from applying their heart to wisdom.

We had been married five years before it struck us that we might as well make use of this place by coming down and living in it.

Those five years were spent in a flat in a town, and during their whole interminable length,

I was perfectly miserable and perfectly healthy, which disposes of the ugly notion that has at times disturbed me that my happiness here is less due to the garden than to a good digestion.

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