Music

Music

Music

Music

Music

Welcome to snoozecast, the podcast designed to help you fall asleep.

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This episode is brought to you by Dreaming on Clouds.

Tonight we'll read the story the three golden apples written by Nathaniel Hawthorne and found in a wonder book originally published in 1851.

This is Hawthorne's retelling of Hercules' search for three golden apples.

Along the way, he meets the old man of the sea, a six-legged man creature, and the mighty giant Atlas.

This story also features the Hesperides. In Greek mythology, they are the nymphs of evening and golden light of sunsets.

The Hesperides love to sing, and they spend their time tending to queen Hercules' apple orchard.

Let's get cozy. Close your eyes.

Relax your body into the softness of your bed.

Now, take a few deep breaths.

Did you ever hear of the golden apples that grew in the garden of the Hesperides?

Ah, those were such apples as would bring a great price by the bushel if any of them could be found growing in the orchards of nowadays.

But there is not, I suppose, a graft of that wonderful fruit on a single tree in the wide world.

Not so much as a seed of these apples exists any longer.

And even in the old, old, half forgotten times, before the garden of the Hesperides was overrun with weeds, a great many people doubted whether there could be real trees that bore apples of solid gold upon their branches.

All had heard of them, but nobody remembered to have seen any.

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