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.

Tonight's readings come from The White Heart of Mahavi, an adventure with the outdoors of the

desert, written by Edna Brush Perkins and published in An Adventure with the Outdoors of the Desert.

Written by Edna Brush Perkins and published in 1922.

The story follows two women who travel into the unknown areas of the Californian wilderness.

I cherish the journeys that I have made through the scenic wonders of America and I think this book is perfect to help you get to sleep. My name is Teddy and my goal is to help people

everywhere get a good night's rest. I hope you enjoy the episode,

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In the meantime, lie back, relax, and enjoy the readings.

The White Heart of Mojave, an adventure with the outdoors of the desert.

The feel of the outdoors.

Beyond the walls and solid roofs of houses is the outdoors.

It is always on the doorstep.

The sky serene or piled with white, slow moving clouds, or full of wind and purple storm, is always overhead.

But walls have an engrossing quality. If there are many of them, they assert themselves and dominate.

They insist on the unique importance of the contents of walls, and would have you believe that the spaces above them, the slow procession of the seasons, and the alternations of sunshine and rain, are accessories, pleasant or unpleasant, of walls. Indeed, that they were made,

and a bungling job too, and to be disregarded as a bungling job should be solely that walls

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