Dear Listener,
Welcome to Episode 64, a long time coming ... longer than you might think. At least one scene of this particular story has been living in my imagination since I was sixteen years old, and it has taken until now to find the right shape for it, and explore it to its conclusion. I'm rather glad it waited, for now seems to be its fitting moment.
In it you will meet two of the most celebrated and least knowable figures in all of music and literature, living quietly in a big white Georgian house in the English countryside, and the neighbour who finds himself drawn into their most ambitious summer project yet. There is a poolside recital, a green silk scarf, a blocked writer, an all-night creative session in a library, and a little light operetta performed under a full moon. Whether everything that follows was really orchestrated or just naturally flowed into place is something you may ponder with the narrator.
This one is set in high summer and I hope it brings a little warmth, whatever the sky is doing outside your window.
As always, here is a direct download link for those who prefer it, and you'll find the episode on your favourite podcast app by searching for Borders of Sleep.
Sweet dreams to you and all who are dear to you,
Seymour
