The Starless Sea - Fiction - Daniel Mead Voice Over
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the starless See by Erin Morgenstern. Narrated by Daniel Meade. There's a pirate in the basement. The pirate is a metaphor, but also still a person. The basement could rightly be considered a dungeon. The pirate was placed here for numerous acts of a piratey nature considered criminal enough for punishment by those non pirates who decide such things. Someone said to throw away the key. But the key rests on a tarnished ring on a hook that hangs on the wall nearby, close enough to see from behind the bars. Freedom kept in sight, but out of reach left as a reminder to the prisoner. No one remembers that now on the key side of the bars, the careful psychological design for gotten distilled into a habit and convenience. The pirate realizes this, but with holds comment. The guard sits in a chair by the door and reads crime serials on faded paper, wishing he were an idealized fictional version of himself, wondering if the difference between pirates and thieves is a matter of boats and Hades. After a time he is replaced by another guard. The pirate cannot discern the precise schedule as the basement dungeon has no clocks to mark the time and the sound of the waves on the shore beyond the stone walls muffles the morning chimes the evening Merriman. This guard is shorter and does not read. He wishes to be no one but himself. He lacks the imagination to conjure alter egos, even the imagination, to empathize with the man behind the bars. The only other soul in the room. Beyond the mice, he pays elaborate amounts of attention to his shoes. When he is not asleep, he is usually asleep approximately three hours after the short guard replaces the reading guard. A girl comes. The girl brings a plate of bread and a bowl of water and sets them outside the pirates cell with hands shaking so badly that half the water spills. The second night, the pirate guesses it is night. The pirate stands as close to the bars as he can and stares, and the girl drops the bread nearly out of reach and spills the bowl of water almost entirely. The third night, the pirates stays in the shadows of the back corner and manages to keep most of his water. The fourth night a different girl comes