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Muggle Tales for a gentle hour of muggle tales · Muggle Snuggle: A Boring Harry Potter Podcast to make you Sleep

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  Speaker 1: It has always said, the same thing it will always say,
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  Speaker 1: the same thing that every library in every world says
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  Speaker 1: to every person who enters, whether they know it or not,
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  Speaker 1: whether they hear it or not, whether they believe it
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  Speaker 1: or not, you are held. The whisper does not demand attention.
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  Speaker 1: It does not insist on being heard. It is there,
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  Speaker 1: in the background, in the silence. in the space between
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  Speaker 1: the words, in the pause between the breaths, available to
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  Speaker 1: anyone who is quiet enough to hear it, still enough
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  Speaker 1: to feel it, open enough to let it in. Most
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  Speaker 1: people never hear it. Most people are too busy, too loud,
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  Speaker 1: too distracted, too full of the noise of their own
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  Speaker 1: thoughts to notice the whisper that is always there, beneath
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  Speaker 1: the noise, beneath the thoughts, beneath the constant, relentless, exhausting
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  Speaker 1: commentary of the waking mind. But you hear it. You
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  Speaker 1: are hearing it now. Because you are asleep. And sleep
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  Speaker 1: quiets the mind. And when the mind is quiet, the
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  Speaker 1: whisper becomes audible. The way a distant melody becomes audible
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  Speaker 1: when you stop talking. The way a star becomes visible
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  Speaker 1: when you turn off the lights. The way of feeling
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  Speaker 1: becomes real when you stop trying to feel it and
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  Speaker 1: simply let it be. The whisper has many voices, not
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  Speaker 1: human voices. The library is too old for human voices,
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  Speaker 1: too deep for human voices, too vast for human voices.
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  Speaker 1: The voices are elemental. The voice of the stone deep, resonant, steady,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of something that has been here since the
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  Speaker 1: beginning and will be here until the end and does
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  Speaker 1: not care, one way or the other, about the things
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  Speaker 1: that happen in between. Because the things that happen in
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  Speaker 1: between are temporary and the stone is permanent and the
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  Speaker 1: stone knows that permanence is not a virtue but a fact.
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  Speaker 1: Like gravity, like time, like the slow, patient turning of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, The voice of the wood, warm, creaking, alive.
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  Speaker 1: The voice of something that was once a tree. That
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  Speaker 1: was once a forest. That was once a seed in
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  Speaker 1: the ground. That was once a thought in the mind
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  Speaker 1: of the earth. That was once a dream in the
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  Speaker 1: mind of the universe. The wood remembers the tree. It
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  Speaker 1: remembers the branches, the leaves, the bark, the rings. It
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  Speaker 1: remembers the birds that nested in it, the wind that
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  Speaker 1: shook it, the rain that fell on it, the sun
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  Speaker 1: that warmed it. It carries all of these memories in
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  Speaker 1: its grain, in its texture, in the particular way it
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  Speaker 1: bends and flexes and gives when you lean against it
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  Speaker 1: the way a friend gives when you lean against them,
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  Speaker 1: with a warmth that is not just physical but personal,
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  Speaker 1: the warmth of something that knows you and likes you
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  Speaker 1: and is glad you are here. the voice of the paper, thin, rustling, dry,
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  Speaker 1: the voice of something that was once a tree, that
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  Speaker 1: was once a forest, that was once a seed, that
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  Speaker 1: was once a thought, that was once a dream, and
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  Speaker 1: that has been transformed by the alchemy of human craft
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  Speaker 1: into something that can hold words, can hold stories, can
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  Speaker 1: hold feelings, can hold dreams. The paper is grateful for this.
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  Speaker 1: It is proud of it. It carries the words the
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  Speaker 1: way a mother carries a child, with tenderness, with care,
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  Speaker 1: with the knowledge that what it carries is precious and
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  Speaker 1: fragile and worth protecting, worth preserving, worth keeping safe through
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  Speaker 1: all the long, dark, quiet hours of the night. The
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  Speaker 1: Voice of the Ink dark, precise, permanent, the voice of
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  Speaker 1: something that was once a liquid, that was once a
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  Speaker 1: mixture of soot and water and gum arabic, that was
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  Speaker 1: once nothing, that was once a thought in the mind
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  Speaker 1: of an alchemist who wanted to make a mark that
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  Speaker 1: would last, a mark that would say, this is important,
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  Speaker 1: this matters, this deserves to be written down. The ink
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  Speaker 1: is the bridge between the thought and the page, between
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  Speaker 1: the idea and the record, between the dream and the reality.
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  Speaker 1: It is the thing that makes a dream permanent, that
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  Speaker 1: makes a feeling visible, that makes a story portable, that
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  Speaker 1: makes a library possible. And the voice of the silence itself,
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  Speaker 1: which is not a voice at all, but a presence,
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  Speaker 1: a weight, a texture, a color, a temperature, quality of
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  Speaker 1: attention that is so complete and so undivided that it becomes,
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  Speaker 1: in the deepest part of the library, indistinguishable from love.
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  Speaker 1: These voices speak together, in the whisper, and the whisper
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  Speaker 1: says what it has always said, what it will always say,
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  Speaker 1: what every library in every world says to every person
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  Speaker 1: who enters, you are held. You are known. You are
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  Speaker 1: part of something vast and ancient and kind. You are
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  Speaker 1: made of stars and you are held by the universe.
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  Speaker 1: And the universe loves you not because you are special,
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  Speaker 1: not because you are important, not because you have done
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  Speaker 1: anything to earn the love, but because you exist. And
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  Speaker 1: existence is good. And the goodness of existence is the
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  Speaker 1: oldest feeling in the world. And the oldest feeling in
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  Speaker 1: the world is the first story. And the first story
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  Speaker 1: is the only story and the only story is this.
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  Speaker 1: It is good to be. You hear the whisper. You
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  Speaker 1: feel it. It enters you. The way warmth enters you.
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  Speaker 1: The way light enters you. The way sleep enters you.
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  Speaker 1: Not through the senses. Not through the mind. not through
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  Speaker 1: any of the usual channels of perception, but through the
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  Speaker 1: deeper channels, the ones that exist beneath the surface of
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  Speaker 1: the body, beneath the surface of the mind, in the
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  Speaker 1: territory of the soul, if souls exist, which I believe
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  Speaker 1: they do, though I have never seen one, except in
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  Speaker 1: the library, where they are kept on the highest shelves,
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  Speaker 1: in the smallest books, in the deepest sleeps, The whisper
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  Speaker 1: settles into you. It becomes part of you. It joins
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  Speaker 1: the other things that are part of you, the breathing,
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  Speaker 1: the heartbeat, the warmth, the darkness, the silence, the sleep.
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  Speaker 1: It becomes one more layer in the quilt of rest
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  Speaker 1: that is being assembled around you, one more blanket in
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  Speaker 1: the stack of warmth that is being piled on top
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  Speaker 1: of you, One more voice in the chorus of comfort
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  Speaker 1: that is singing you to sleep has been singing you
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  Speaker 1: to sleep, will continue to sing you to sleep for
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  Speaker 1: as long as you need it, which is always, which
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  Speaker 1: is forever, which is the amount of time that the
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  Speaker 1: library has, which is the amount of time that the
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  Speaker 1: books have, which is the amount of time that the
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  Speaker 1: whisper has, which is all the time there is. Fleek now.
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  Speaker 1: The whisper will keep singing. The library will keep holding.
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  Speaker 1: The books will keep dreaming. And you will sleep, and
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  Speaker 1: the sleeping will be good. And the goodness of the
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  Speaker 1: sleeping will seep into you the way the warmth of
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  Speaker 1: the cup seeped into your hands, the way the moonlight
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  Speaker 1: seeped through the arrow slits, the way the candlelight seeped
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  Speaker 1: into the shadows. And when you wake, you will carry
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  Speaker 1: the whisper with you, the way you carry the story,
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  Speaker 1: the way you carry the feeling, The way you carry
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  Speaker 1: the warmth, gently, carefully, close to your heart, in the
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  Speaker 1: deepest part of you where it has always been, where
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  Speaker 1: it will always be, where it is now. Even as
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  Speaker 1: you sleep, even as you dream, even as the night
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  Speaker 1: goes on and on and on deep and warm and endless.
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  Speaker 1: The way a story goes on, the way a dream
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  Speaker 1: goes on, the way love goes on. without the slightest
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  Speaker 1: trace of stopping. The library is here. The whisper is here.
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  Speaker 1: We are all here, together, in the quiet, in the warm,
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  Speaker 1: in the dark, holding you, watching you, singing to you,
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  Speaker 1: keeping you safe through the long, deep, There is one
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  Speaker 1: more shelf in the library.