From over here, Evie says:
I would like to recommend “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. It has to be my favorite short story… no matter how many times I read it it still gives me the chills!
To which Miette replies: your wish, my command, and about those chills, have you ever tried to read it aloud? It’s utterly skin-crawling. Of course, I’ve already read the Virginia Woolf story with a similar (though not -quite- as resplendent with crawling-skin heebies) narrative structure.
I was just the other day staring at the ceiling in my own bedroom, and could’ve sworn it was comprised really of thousands of cats, trying to escape the two-dee flatlands of the ceiling. And while at the time I attributed that vision to… the detritus of some decisions of my youth … given the evidence put forth by Woolf and Gilman, I’m in pretty good company for textured wall hallucinations. Anyone else ever stare at their walls until they go stereoscopic?
Whoa! So creepy! I’ll listen for a third time now. Its a firsthand experience of madness.
Wonderfully read. All your stories are wonderful. Thank you.
I’ve been a lurker for a while now, this is my first post.
This one has to be my favourite podcast so far, its a great story. Thanks Miette :).
Peter
Dear sir
I am a student of english at algier’s University ,i do thnk you for this veru valuable project of audio books
“Dear sir” ?
Does this guy know somthing we dont Miette? 😉
This is interesting: http://www.library.csi.cuny.edu/dept/history/lavender/whyyw.html (“Why I Wrote The Yellow Wallpaper,”)
It was to be a long time before normalisation became the norm, though.
My Grandma once pointed out some of the people that lived in the slate on her toilet floor. Funnily enough, I’d already seen them. Must have been hereditary…