Fiction reading from the book Ishmael by Daniel Quinn
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US General American - GenAM)Transcript
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doing a reading from Ishmael by Daniel Quinn. The story, Ishmael said, takes place a half a million years ago, an inconceivably long time ago when this planet would be all but unrecognizable to you. Nothing at all stirred on the land except the wind and the dust. Not a single blade of grass waved in the wind. Not a single crickets chirped. Not a single bird soared the sky. All these things were tens of millions of years in the future. Even the seas were eerily still and silent for the vertebrates, too, for tens of millions of years away in the future. But of course, there was an anthropologist on hand. What sort of world would it be without an anthropologist? He was, however, a very depressed and disillusioned anthropologist, for he'd been everywhere on this planet looking for someone to interview, and every tape in his knapsack was as blank as the sky. But one day, as he was moping along beside the ocean, he saw what seemed to be a living creature in the shadows off the shore. It was nothing to brag about, just a sort of squishy blob, but it was the only prospect he'd seen in all his journeys. So he waited out to where it was bobbing in the waves. He greeted the creature politely and was greeted and kind, and soon the two of them were good friends.