Good evening and thank you for joining me for another boring books for bedtime.

I hope tonight selection provides all the boredom your busy brain needs to quiet down and let you get some sleep.

So find a comfortable spot.

Adjust your volume.

Take a nice deep breath in.

Let it out slowly.

And off we go.

Tonight by several requests We're returning to a classic philosophy first published in 1557.

Utopia by Sir Thomas More.

Let's pick up right where we left off in the middle of a debate between our narrator

several learned men and one Raphael Hythliday, explorer of lands unknown.

Let's begin.

While I was talking thus, the counselor who was present had prepared an answer, and had resolved

to resume all I had said according to the formality of a debate, in which things are generally repeated more faithfully than they are answered, as if the chief trial to be made were of men's memories.

You have talked prettily for a stranger, said he, having heard of many things among us, which

you have not been able to consider well.

But I will make the whole matter plain to you, and will first repeat in order all that you

have said.

Then I will show you how much your ignorance of our affairs has misled you.

You will in the last place answer all your arguments.

And that I may begin where I promised there were four things.

Hold your peace, said the Cardinal. This will take up too much time.

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