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🗓️ 28 March 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there, and thank you for joining me tonight for this episode of Down to Sleep. |
0:04.6 | This is the podcast of softly spoken stories to help you get a good night's rest. |
0:09.4 | I read books to you every week, and tonight it's The Little Prince Part 1. |
0:14.2 | You can expect part two shortly after in the future. |
0:17.4 | But if you can't wait and you would like to hear the second part tonight, as well as over |
0:22.1 | 128 more episodes of this podcast, then come and join me on Patreon. For a few dollars a month, |
0:28.8 | you get access to all of those episodes. You get two new episodes every single week, and you get |
0:33.4 | to vote on the book that I read next. Wherever you are in the world tonight, thank you for joining me. |
0:38.1 | I hope that this reading relaxes you and helps you get down to sleep. Let's tuck you in, take a nice |
0:44.6 | deep breath. And let's begin, The Little Prince. Once when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent |
0:53.8 | picture in a book called True Stories |
0:56.5 | from Nature about the primeval forest. |
1:00.7 | It was a picture of a boa constrictor in the act of swallowing an animal. |
1:07.4 | In the book it said, |
1:09.3 | Boa constrictors swallow their prey hole without chewing it. |
1:14.2 | After that, they are not able to move, |
1:17.0 | and they sleep through the six months that they need for digestion. |
1:21.8 | I pondered deeply then over the adventures of the jungle, |
1:26.5 | and after some work with a coloured pencil, I succeeded in making my |
1:31.3 | first drawing. I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, and I asked them whether the drawing |
1:37.2 | frightened them. But they answered, Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened of a hat? |
1:50.7 | My drawing was not a picture of a hat. It was a picture of a boa constrictor digesting an elephant. |
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