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🗓️ 15 May 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello there, and welcome to my podcast of audiobooks and bedtime stories to help you get a good night's rest. |
0:06.4 | This is a rainy day version of the podcast with relaxing rain sounds in the background. |
0:10.9 | If you would like to hear this complete audiobook, it is available right now on Patreon at patreon.com slash down to sleep. |
0:18.6 | When you join the Patreon, you're not only supporting the podcast, |
0:22.0 | but you get access to every single episode so far, and there's two new episodes every single |
0:28.0 | week. Every time I finish a book, I put all of the episodes together, and you get one long |
0:33.3 | super episode as a completed audiobook. And currently, until the end of the year, at least, |
0:39.1 | every Sunday is a new rainy day reading for the books that I've been reading recently, |
0:43.6 | like The Lord of the Rings, Jurassic Park, Twilight, and more. So if you enjoy this podcast and |
0:49.1 | are able, please do consider joining and supporting. I try my best to give as many rewards |
0:53.7 | as I can for being a part |
0:54.9 | of the book club over there. But if you can't, I hope that you enjoy this episode, and I truly |
1:00.2 | hope it helps you sleep tonight. Thank you for being here, for letting me read to you. Enjoy the |
1:06.0 | episode. Good night. Once when I was six years old, I saw a magnificent picture in a book called |
1:14.3 | True Stories from Nature about the primeval forest. It was a picture of a boa constrictor |
1:21.8 | in the act of swallowing an animal. In the book it said, boa constrictors swallow their prey whole without |
1:31.4 | chewing it. After that, they are not able to move and they sleep through the six months that they |
1:38.1 | need for digestion. I pondered deeply then over the adventures of the jungle, and after some work with a coloured |
1:46.6 | pencil, I succeeded in making my first drawing. I showed my masterpiece to the grown-ups, |
1:54.4 | and I asked them whether the drawing frightened them. But they answered, |
1:59.0 | "'Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened of a hat? |
2:02.6 | My drawing was not a picture of a hat. |
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