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So recently I was on a road trip with my beloved friend Bernadette, and she mentioned that she had been reading the novels of the victorian jewish woman, writer and really enjoying them, and my interest was peaked Bernie is herself a writer she's, a very smart woman. She someone I ve known for a long time and I generally trust her taste. She is and introduce me to media that I might not otherwise have found, and so I looked this personnel and then, when I looked Amy levy up and I have heard scholars, pronounce her name, both levy in wavy, we'll go with levy, but just know that there are some question mark there. But when I looked her up and discovered that she was well known in Britain's literary circles in the Torreon era, including having the admiration of Lord Byron. I was a little wow it and I was like how have I missed her me. The english major focused a lot on English, Victoria Illiterates, my men, yet no Amy levy

it turns out a lot of people missed her and for a very long time in the exact. Why is a little bit difficult to pin down? I think part of it is that her life was very short and it ended tragically, and some of her work was controversial and she kind of, has an intersection reality that I think a lot of people have had trouble wrapping their brains around but she was recognised as an extraordinary talent specifically of the eighteen eighties. So we're gonna talk her today and as a heads up we you mean to let you know. There is a brief discussion of suicide late in this episode. Amy levy, was born on November tenth, one thousand eight hundred and sixty one in the Lambeth Section of London to Lewis Levi and Isabel leading Levi Lewis Levi was a stockbroker and the levees were fish, but they seem to have been fairly casual in their religion. Their gentile nanny, sometimes took the children with her two christian church services. The family didn't seem too

earthly, observe religious dietary laws, and some members of the family also celebrated Christmas, but there is evidence that the family attended Senegal, and that the children may have had hebrew lessons, Amy was the second child after a sister named Katy, who she was very close to Louis and Isabel had five more children After Amy they were Alfred, Willie, Med, Ella and Donald from a young age. Literature was a deep love of Amy's, and that was one that she and her sister Katy shared, and these two sisters, perhaps with contributions from their other siblings, wrote and produce their own homemade. Handwritten literary magazine for a number of years called the Poplar Club Journal and some of them eggs in the surviving examples of the journal were signed by the authors, but many were not so good for them part of the little unclear which of the levy, children route, which pieces, which included poems, play short stories, and even some art

illustration, and it seems like least in some cases, Amy Levy wrote even at this young age, in multiple voices under multiple norms diploma. It contain also brief critiques of the included works, and one issue featured a notice that a member of the club did not contribute. They would be fined, as I find follow, this absolutely delightful. over the years. These family magazines continued, they seem like they may have have expanded to cleared the work of friends as well, but they also lifted in tone and quality, as the children aged in the magazine was given different names at different points in time. As a teenager of fifteen Amy was enrolled at brightened, high school for girls, which had its foundations and the women's Rights movement right and also offered primary school patient for boys and Amy's brothers, Alfred and Willie, attended with her Amy

responded with her family regularly during this time because it was a school far from home and her letters offer a glimpse into very close family and there enjoyment of boarding school. In a brief note, father she writes quote dear Papa. I have time before tee to write you a few lines that you may not think I have forgotten you. I wish would come down with Mamma to see us. It is so very nice here you would like to see. Peters old Church, it is so curious and antique, but here of depression also appear just something that echoes throughout her life. In one letter during this time she mentions to her mother quote, I have quite recover. From the blues, which was horrid of me to mention, but it's her letters to her sister Katy Amy is really unrestrained and she shares her innermost thoughts with her sister one aspect of these letters between sister

This is what appears to be Amy, Levy's casual mention of her romantic feelings for women. She mentions, in particular the school's headmistress, Miss Creek and refers to herself, as the woman's quote were me, a door saying that she quote bagged a divine passion inspiring whenever I think of it and brace today. At the same time, She continues this discussion of her crash. Writing quote. I am more in love with her than ever. Isn't it grim, I dont believe that will go for ages and I can never care for anyone or anything else while it lasts. I make such different future pictures to what I used to you married maternal, with a tendency to laugh at the plane. Highschool mistress sister, who grinds and lodges with charms and adores without return these writings and others from her time at Brighton, offer an image of a young woman whose really full, of wit and opinions and creativity.

in some she writes documents of imagined scenarios sort of like forgeries, but she's not actually passing them off to anyone. Such as letters between two people know neither of which are herself? She asked Was writing verse at this time, including a poem which was tabled run to death, and she wrote that when she was only fifteen, as this title suggests, run to death is a grim story. All more so for having been written by a teenager. It subtitled a true incident of pre revolutionary french history and features a hunting party of Nobles who discover a surprising pray in the forest when they look out at once in the brush. They find that their gazing quote at a something which crawling with slow step from tree to tree is its them shadow phantom ghastly. No, a woman and child the woman with the Gypsy written clear upon her face

gazing around her with wide eyes, dark and shadow fringed and wild with the cowed suspicious glances of persecuted race. Then they all with unasked question in each other's faces peer for a common thought has struck them one. Their lips dare scarcely say till Lord Gaston cries impatient. Why regret the stately dear when such sport as yonder offers quick least the dogs away. The last lines of this poem described the huntsmen having finished their cruel chase and kill the mother and her child, riding in silent. Shame back to the Manor House, where they then tell the Ladys there what a quote famous hunt they have had their day. Without mention of what they'd actually done. This problem wasn't published until years after it was written when Victoria magazine picked it up. Amy continued to be a very productive writer as a teenager when she was seventy,

She wrote a letter that was published in the jewish chronicle, titled Jew women and women's rights in it deems that would continue into her professional career are apparent as she advocated for professional opportunities, for Women coming up we're gonna talk about the poem the became one of levies, most famous works, even though it was written when she was still a teenager, but before we get into that, we will pause for a sponsor break what could be better than your favorite holiday, music. about your music room feeling sound, ok, rogue, who does that? ok Stream bar in Rome, industry and by pro are the perfect when one gives, with fourteen streaming in cinematic sound for any tv there, a great way to hear all Will they favorites on Iheart Christmas in North Pole, radio and I are channel with, gives like row, who stream bar for the people on your list. Those thinking about you during the holidays by great savings throughout this season at rocard. Dotcom happy streaming. This episode

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reflects on her life from her death bed and particularly mourns the promise of her youth She was so enthralled with intellectual pursuits. Only too that part of herself unwelcome in the marriage she roots yet maidens. Mark I would not that you thought I blame my Lord departed, for he meant no evil, so I take it to his wife. twas. Only that the high philosopher pregnant, with noble theories and great thoughts deigned not to stoop to So slight, a thing as the fine fabric of a woman's brain. so subtle. As a passionate woman saw, I think if he had duped a little and cared. I might have risen nearer to his height leaned shattered, neither fit for use as goodly household vessel, nor for that far minor thing, which I had hoped to be but like run to death, Zante was not immediately

lest the monologue was finished in eighteen. Seventy, nine, not long before the eighteen year old levy enrolled at noon M College, a women's college at Cambridge University. This made her the first jewish woman to attend, knew him and the second jewish woman to attend Cambridge. It seems based on some of her writing. While she was air, that, while she was feeling really elated at once seemed like a career opening up for her. She may not have that we enjoyed her time at Cambridge, or at least the people who see encountered there, she wrote a verse play during this time. Titled reading that set inserted, fictional, Ized Cambridge and features characters named, prevent your ego and Bob Bumptious who seem flummoxed by women around them, but the man are not the only targets of her satire. She also has characterised named Cornelia contacts and JANET Jerry who ache to be

to lecture walls, and while everyone gets a dose of levy sharp, though comedic critique it ultimately men who get the harshest words for their quote shallow sentiment and there treatment of women, her story, Leopold, Lunar a study, features a main character, really grappling with his jewish identity, Anti Semitism and self loathing and includes this line about his personal revelation quote. What stunts Leopold into despair is the recognition that one cannot stop being a Jew, that self transformation, self reinvention is impossible and other piece of writing from this time expresses frustration at being a woman who was also a novelty at the university titled Lily. A Cambridge sketch the story is told through two characters: Lily adopt Of a professor and rota, a student and together, these two represent two very different modes of womanhood. Lolly is the traditional

young woman and wrote a scholar. Neither of them gets what they want lolly once a marriage and love, but the object of her affection, chooses rota in choosing to me Ray Rota has to give up her studies and access to intellectual film, of these ratings were published in a lot of her writing during her years. At noon am similarly went unpublished. Much It was discovered years and years and years later, written in notebooks, probably never intended for review were publication A lot of her work, both published and unpublished from this time in her life, reflection, this kind of working through issues of identity and the ways in which choices to go down a certain direction in life mean that, options become unavailable. Similar to those themes and loudly at Cambridge, Sketch she's allows wrote for the point of view of male protagonists, characters which, like Leopold, are usually filled with loathing eighteen, eighty one levies, first book antipathy and

their verse was published, and so at nineteen. She was suddenly a well reviewed poet lauded for her deft in nimble use of words. She also decided to leave school that year, rather than complete her final year at noon, em The reason for this decision is not known. Biographer, Linda, Hunt, Beckmann notes that a surviving Frank of a letter from earlier in the year mentions that Amy's recovering from something it's not clear what, but it may have been some sort of break down or an intense depressive, said that letter, though, indicates a plan to return to school for the summer term and that something that she did in eighteen. Eighty one, the women of Newton College, had also just been granted the chair. To take the exams that were used to qualify students for a bachelors degree at Cambridge. While this was a huge step forward, it also meant that attendees of noon and had to take courses that were prescribed

by the school, including ones that Amy was likely not very interested in levy wrote a news article about this transition and mention specifically the quote mathematical classes. Organised for unhappy b All who souls are yearning for Plato or mill, but she also released a book of poetry that had been very well received, so it's possible that she felt it was it's time for her career. As a writer to start in earnest, yeah, apparently price that they could have kind of an unstructured take what you want approach to their course load and then, when it was like wait, I have required courses now. I could see happen out at that point, but, like said, we don't know for sure but after Cambridge Levy, traveled around Europe visiting Switzerland in Germany in particular several times maintaining home base of sorts in London with her parents. Should it for four years after leaving college, but she was still continuing her education in

her own way taking courses or lessons in various cities as opportunities and her interest intersected. Found work, teaching, german schoolboys english, but that job was really over before it started her mother, forbade it as improper, She was, however, intend to unmaking her own way financially and it seems like there may have been a drop in the families fortunes that magnified that desire throughout this time. She to her family, regularly shearing her various experiences with them, often with the same hiding, which she used in her satirical writing, see, was back home in London for most of eighteen, eighty three and although she lived with her parents during her, I'm there, she was living an independent life most likely because the financial strain Louis Isabel Levy, move from their home at Sussex, place, regents Park to Ulster Place, regions park and then soon thereafter to a house in Bloomsbury. While this

evidence to downgrade in their lifestyle and also put their residence in close proximity to the british museum. Even before the family had we have so close to it. Amy was a frequent visitor at the british museums reading room at its lunch room for women. She met of Ivy of women, who were tides of various progressive movements and social reforms, including the daughter of Karl Marx, who was named Elinor. Although she became friends that these women it doesn't appear, that. She was ever drawn into their political efforts. Levy wrote about the reading room and and say for Atalanta, several years after this period of her life, that was an team, eighty nine and it was titled readers that the British Museum there was also part of an intellectual social club in London and members of her family sometimes attended the meetings where all manner of topics were discussed. The levies

I was even hosted the group in their own home, so it seems like she had a fairly stable system of friends and family. At this point, she continued her cursive writing pace, afters in Tippy's, positive reception and in eighteen. Eighty three she published between two stools and one thousand eight hundred and eighty four. There was socratics in the strand, Her melancholic work, a minor poet and other verse, was also published in eighteen. Eighty four, the contents of this book a really morose and tone. A lot of them were written while she was visiting Dresden and then tippy as reprinted in this volume in eighteen. Eighty six levy lived abroad for the winter in Florence, specifically where she travelled with one of our closest friends, feminist writer, Clementine, a black. black wrote in letters during this time the Amy was quote getting well, which suggests she was once again in the midst of a decline in either her mental Physical Health or both

in Florence, Amy worked as a correspondent for the jewish chronicle, covering jewish life in ITALY, in this post, which is usually discussed as a job that her father had used his connections to get for her, she wrote Arthur those that were largely about jewish identity, from a cultural rather than religious standpoint in this to obtain as much an exploration of her own jewish identity, as it was the identity of ITALY's jewish communities. What things that she felt tethered her to the jewish community was a shared sense of humour summit she wrote about in an essay title: jewish humor for the jewish chronicle, while in Florence Levy met Vernon Lee also known as Violet Padgett. You haven't episode on her that as of one or recording mass and planning to use as a Saturday classic, but that's also some weeks from now. So if something happens bump bump by sea.

Padgett had started going by the name Burnley as a team. At that point, using a man name in her writing in order to be taken more seriously, and there has been some speculation, but maybe Lee and Amy Larry were in a relationship. while Vernon we resisted the label of lesbian in her life, despite relationships with women, the name or of the relationship between Levy and Lee or Padgett, which is Levy called her is not entirely certain. Was clearly a very deep emotional attachment on levies part she wrote, love poems titled to Vernon Lee new love, new life and she sent them to Padgett as well as correspondence that, obviously, he's a very intense affection. She addresses all of her letters to my dear Miss Padgett and calls her quote an electric Battery to me, suggesting that being with Padgett is where her best creative energy comes

from when levy after her returned to London wrote that she couldn't make it back to Florence as land due to circumstances of others, mostly a family matter. As her brother, Alfred was ill and passed around this time. Paget sent her a bouquet of flowers, which she then wrote about. She was so touched by it. new love, new life is a relatively short pelham, so will read the whole thing to give a sense of the verse that Amy was sending to Violet Padgett one she who so long has lain stone stiff with folded wings within my heart, again round bird wakes and sings Brown Nightingale, whose strain is heard by day by night. She sings of joy and pain of sorrow and delight to Tis, true and other days. Have I unbarred the door? He knows the war. In ways. Love has been here before love, blessed and love. A cursed was here in days long past. This time is not the first

This time is the last two Vernon Lee is similarly intimate, although its ending stanza suggest that perhaps levies feelings were unrequited but she knew that or that she hoped that Padgett would reassure her of some sort of reciprocal action. Writing quote a snowy Blackthorne flowered. Beyond my reach, you a branch and gave it to me there I found for you a scarlet blossom rare, thereby ran on of art and life, our speech and of the good, the gods had given each hope unto you and unto me despair, regardless whether Vernon, Lee and Amy Levy were romantically connected. Their friendship was pivotal to levy because she and turn became acquainted with a new group of creative intellectuals, low their worth

that she had known before becoming friends with Violet Padgett and perhaps because of this new social set, the mid too late. Eighteen eighties were incredibly prolific for levy. She wrote a lot. She wrote essays like women in club life and the poetry of Christina Rosati and short stories, including at Prato, and the recent tell us the occurrence of the british Museum that last title served as a way to critique the many men who frequented the British Museum reading room and were openly hostile about women being there and that mail character is so engrossed and his work that he fails to witness an astonishing appearance of a spectre near the card catalogue, which is just right there in plain view, sort of love that whole set up so much up

this point. Amy Levy had not published any novels, although she had worked on at least one that she eventually abandoned, but her work A novelist was significant and ultimately difficult in a variety of ways, and we're gonna talk about that. After we hear from the sponsors they keep stuff, you missed in history class, going okay, we are officially in the holiday season and I'm actually really excited for the holidays. This year, I'm going to put up my purple tree, I'm going to make some delightful drinks and some yummy treats I'm just going to enjoy it, but I also really genuinely have come to a place where I love love, seeking out the perfect gift that is going to put a smile on somebody's face, or even just make them giggle or just remind them that I think of him all year. Long, listen

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Titled romance of a shop and it is about women choosing unexpected life paths, specifically tells the story of forced sisters whose father dies and the story opens just after the Father, Mr Laura has passed, and the forced sisters, Fanny Gertrude, Lucy and Phyllis or figuring out how they will survive as they have been left with. Nothing left sisters decide to open a photography. Studio as a means to take care of themselves financially and the plot involves a number of steps along the path to success for them, including taking posts Morton photographs and photographing works of art. But the story is real. about the lives of the women involved, the choices they make and their relationships with the men that they love this as well reviewed and it established levy as a novelist after publication of romance of a shop levy, visited Florence once again and she wrote

this time about a personal melancholy, a heartache over a break up which is considered to have likely been a writer Dorothy Bloomfield, who was another member of earnestly circle in January. One thousand eight hundred and eighty nine levy's novel Reuben Sachs was published. This book quickly became a problem and its reception. The plot revolves around the titular character. That's a lawyer who experienced a nervous collapse, went away to recuperate and then returns to London, as the book opens, Although he falls in love with his cousin Judith. He ultimately rejects her in favour of a more lucrative match. Judith makes a socially smart match after losing Ruby and the novel examines themes of love and expectation of jewish family is working to fit into English. Piety and of a woman's place than her barriers to fulfilment jewish

Critics really felt that levies, work of prose was a harsh criticism of jewish life and that it was riddled with stereotypes, gender reader seem to feel that invalidated every negative stereotypes about Jews and side as a sort of exposition, from within the community and other seem to just wonder why Amy Levy was so unkind to the jewish community Review in the guardian from January 21st, one thousand eight hundred and eighty nine questioned whether levy's characterization of jewish culture wasn't too harsh opening, with quote jewish writers, cannot be charged with blind partiality to their race. We have lately had some very pungent description of jewish boy. Bowls, and here is another picture which Gentiles may be permitted to hope is too cruel for truthfulness to highly coloured, to be just after all, many of the failings which mislevy attributes to her people are coming to a rich and boulder middle class. You have a certain gel

of the class above them because they admire it and despair of reaching it yeah. This is kind of one of those everybody's kind of a jerk. In some way. It's not the shouldn't, be about jewish people another review that was in the morning post red quote. There are few things more disappoint, than to feel as with the smallest critical faculty. One must that the author of ribbon sacks has just missed, producing a really clever work. Levy breaks comparatively new ground in this book, the percentages of which are almost without exception, taken from the jewish community in London, which, by the way, can scarcely be flattered by the rather too somber glasses through which she

text to view it as novel was a response to George Eliot's, one thousand eight hundred and seventy six novel Daniel Deronda, which teeth belt, had romanticized use in a deeply unrealistic way. So she can set out to write a novel which showed that Jews, like all other humans, are complex with both strong and weak points of character but few readers at least initially received it. That way, and me, A jewish publications were frank in their assessment that, regardless of what she intended her work, has the potential to be damaging to their culture. Within the larger field of London, when Reuben sacks came out, levy was in Paris ass, she soon returned to her parents home in London. A few days after the first bad reviews came out. They seem as though she was hiding out, but while she may have sought some comfort in the family home, she was also working on another novel titled, Miss Meredith, which she completed in just six weeks. Miss Meredith was

so ambitious as Reuben sacks and it was written to appeal to a wider audience. It tells the story of a young English. Man named Elsie Meredith, who moves to ITALY for a governess job, and there is a fairly predictable, romance plot with the families, adult son, levy had a lot of social engagements in eighteen, eighty nine she visited with her siblings and there children regularly and she met up with Vernon Lee Reuben. Facts was controversial, initially, but it also made her famous and she made a lot of new high profile friends, the short Laurie Cohen of Trinity came out in May of eighteen. Eighty nine reads as a reflection of the turmoil in levies professional life with the fall out from Reuben sacks. It is true from the point of view of a gentle narrator, describing the character Cohen in very stare typical and anti semitic terms,

in this exaggerated limbs levy offers an insight into the impossibility of representing jewish life and culture here the narrator is doing what she was accused of doing and Reuben sacks and the contrast is obvious. She also leads the character of Leopold, linear from her early work as an example of an anglo size. Jew who finds codes as alien as the gentle narrator does like Levy Cohen. In this He has written a book that made him famous, but that is deeply misunderstood levy also assembled another book of poetry in eighteen. Eighty nine- that was a London lane tree and other verse. It was dedicated to her friend Clementine, a black three of the poems were

evidently written in April and May of that year, as reflected in our calendar, but its unclear when she wrote the other poems. These works reflect a writer who feel somewhat lost, perhaps and definitely exhausted. The poem end of day ends with the lines o sweeter far than strain and stresses the whoa, creeping weariness and better far than thought. I find the drowsy blankness of the mind more than all joys of soul or sense, is this divine indifference where grief a shadow grows to be and peace, a possibility. on September tenth. Eighteen, eighty nine levy died by suicide. Her cause of death was recorded as Six years from the innovation of carbonic oxide gas, from the burning of charcoal she had seen her your Katy and Tavi family. Just a few days before her death amended spent the next several days alone, before ending her life,

her body was cremated and internal balls, Pon cemetery, a London Wayne Tree. Another verse, although it was completed, had not yet been published when she died. It was released shortly after that. It sometimes tempting to point to the negative reviews of Reuben sacks as the catalyst for this tragedy, but really like anyone levy, was dealing with a lot more than that. She had struggled with her personal life, harbouring a belief that she was unattractive and couldn't find a lasting fulfilling relationship. She also had hearing loss in that had progressed and, of course, she had depression throughout her life. That's come up several I'm stirring the episode yeah one of the most telling pieces of writing about Amy Levy from her contemporaries is a sort of memorial obituary penned by Oscar Wilde for women's world volume, three which wild edited in which Amy had written for

road very honestly of her work that he felt might be lacking, but also praised. Her deeply writing, especially glowing words about her fiction, quote: Miss levies to novels the romance of a shop and Reuben sacks were both published last year, the first so bright and clever story full of sparkling touches the same and is a novel that probably no other writer could have produced its directness, its uncompromising truth. It's dead the feeling and, above all, its absence of any single superfluous word make it in some sort, a classic like all her asked work, it is sad, but the sadness is by no means morbid. The strong, under tone of moral earnestness. Never preached gives us billowy and forced to the vivid portraiture and prevents the satirical touch is from degenerating into mere malice. Truly, the book is an achievement to write thus at six and twenty is given to vary

you and from the few, thus endowed their readers may safely hope for yet great things later on, but later on has not come for the writer of Reuben. Sacks in the world must forego the full fruition of her power. The loss is the world's, but perhaps not hers. She was never robust, not often actually ill, but seldom well to feel like a joy instead of a burden and her work not poured out lightly, but drawn drop by drop from the very depth of her own feeling. We may say of it that was in truth, her life's blood. In the weeks following levies, death, there was speculation about what had led her to take her own life. That circulate in the press. A lot of theories were repeated, his facts and finally, her friend Clementine a black stepped and try to set the record straight. She wrote to Athenaeum quote: will you spare me a few lines in order to do justice both to the dead in a living? I have

we learnt that various reports, some exaggerated and some holy untrue have been, aid and various papers concerning the late, Miss Amy Levy and are being largely copied by the provincial press. I was a close friend of Miss levy for many years and my testimony as that of personal knowledge. It is not true that she never left her father's house otherwise than on visits to friends or holiday journey. Nor that she suffered from failing eyesight nor from the loss of her sense of humour, nor that she devoted herself to work in the east, and she did suffer for several years from slight deafness and from fits of extreme,

crash in the result not of unhappy circumstances or of unkind treatment, but as those believe who know her best, her lack of physical robustness and the exhaustion produced by strenuous moraine work most emphatically. It is not true that her family or her personal friends among the jewish community treated her coldly on account of the publication of Reuben sacks and thus indirectly hastened her death. Her parents were justly proud of her. I cannot imagine anything which would have caused more pain and indignation to Miss Levy, then the circulation of such reports, and it is in her name that I make this protest against them. After levies down, her family and in particular, her sisters tried to ensure that her work would not be forgotten as late as

Nineteen, thirty to her sister Katy, reached out to publish your Macmillan to see if there was any interest in Amy's, unpublished, work. So for a long time, her work faded from view, but in the late nineteenth nineties her papers were auction and became publicly available. Soon, after, and that really started a new wave of interest in her work. I am so glad that I had this random conversation with my friend Bernadette, which led to this episode here. I've we I've got things talk about on that front in behind. Yes, this is, a bit of a downer since she was we didn't mention specifically, but she was not quite twenty when she died, so very young and so I thought I would do too pretty light listener, males that are very to me funny and sweet one his former listener Mickey, and it is from our episode about the exorcism case, which inspired the exorcist

Please. Let me start by saying love your show. I wanted to share my first experience with the movie the exorcist at the time. It will be mt. I was nine years old. My parents wanted to go. To drive in movie double feature to see the exorcist and could not find a baby sitter. So they took me along they. Let me watch the first feature. The abominable doktor fee but did not want me to see the exorcist, so they made me lay down in the back seat. I can tell you from personal experience that the sound of the exorcist is absolutely terrifying. Thank you for such entertaining and informative podcast Mickey. I believe it because that movie, I said in the episode, some of them sound design ever, and it is terrifying so, but it will stick with making forever. I'm sure Our other email is from our listener, Steve and rights

Ali and Tracy. I really enjoy your show and accuse me company on my drive to and from work. I often bring home interesting tidbits from the show to chat about during dinner. When my favorite websites has daily posts, it bring forward, eclectic mixes of art, science and exceptional photography and a member first, it posted a video created by someone who took out the terrain authoress Rex from Jurassic Park and replaced it with a large black cat make me laugh, and I hope it does the same for you and he sends the link. I have seen it my husband and I watched it about one hundred times marveling at how good it was for just a spooky, video and laughing and laughing and laughing cuz. It's really quite good and Steve mentions if you're worried about hyper don't worry about it, but in that he has no affiliation with them, but small joys is what life is all about. Am I couldn't agree more and then the real? reason. I wanted to read this. He attached to them. Of Jackson, our Devon racks. He is a Cutler who loves to play with paper. Balls and hair elastic keeps safe, Steve

I love Devon Rex, I'm not a breed Sesar person, but if I am that's the breed of key that I love me in all directions are key, but there's no like a Devon and they are usually very carefully very hilarious. So thank you both to Mickey empty for writing es this funny emails. I am still gazing at this cat and his little broken whiskers, which I adore? If you would like to write to us, you could do so at history pie cast an eye heart radio dot com. You can also find us as Mr History everywhere and social media, if you would like, doesn't I will show you haven't done yet we made it super easy. You can do that on the radio app or anywhere you listen to your favorite broadcast. Stop pms than district class. The production, my heart radio for more pod cap.

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