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#171 | Transfigure Your Imagination, Pt. 1 | Malcolm Guite

Those Who Serve The Lord

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The Nightingale

I was a fairly precocious boy, and I was reading the Scientific American. From my sort of early teens onwards, I became a very rigid atheist. And you know, my favourite text was Samuel Beckett's Waiting For God Oh, and all that suited my moody adolescence. But in the middle of all that, because they couldn't afford to fly me home, and I have some holidays, I would just be farmed out to relatives. They dragged me along to Keats' house on Hampstead Heath, the house where he'd be. He heard the nightingale and wrote the poem. In fact, the manuscript in which he'd written it is up on a wall

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