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🗓️ 8 May 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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There are oracles on these roads.
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Music & Production: Disparition, disparition.info. Written by Joseph Fink. Performed by Jasika Nicole and Erica Livingston. Logo by Rob Wilson, robwilsonwork.com. Part of the Night Vale Presents network.
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0:00.0 | If you enjoy this show, you will enjoy the new novel Alice isn't dead, a standalone complete |
0:07.1 | reimagining of this story. It's out now, find it wherever you encounter books, or at AliceIsn't Dead.com. |
0:18.6 | The highway was miles back. The ground here is flat to the horizon. Sunbaked, waterless, |
0:26.8 | a single air-stream trailer there in the middle of this nowhere. Far enough from the border |
0:35.3 | that whoever, whatever, lives in there wouldn't get hassled so much by the jackboots. I doubt anyone |
0:42.5 | passes through this region unless they're seriously lost or looking to get that way. |
0:47.9 | West Texas doesn't fool around when it comes to concepts like air and hot and lonely. |
0:54.4 | This is land that is overtly hostile to the living. And yet here we are. And here's this air |
1:02.8 | stream, a blinding pixel of brushed metal reflecting sunlight for miles into the distance. |
1:09.5 | Whoever or whatever we've been looking for, they're in there. Because there are oracles on these roads. |
1:17.5 | We hope. |
1:53.9 | This is in dead by Joseph Fink, performed by Jessica Nicole and Erica Livingston, produced by |
2:01.2 | Dispiration. Part 3, Chapter 2, Surroundings. |
2:06.5 | Things are good also I hear this bottle of Stevens. |
2:14.2 | Oh, wait, his ancient feelings. Like father, stepfather, the sun is drowning in the moon. |
2:27.2 | There was a name that had come up over and over in both of our journeys. |
2:30.8 | Praxis. We knew little about them except they stood in opposition to both Bayon Creek and |
2:36.5 | Thistle. So we did what anyone would do. We googled them and there wasn't much. Then we did what |
2:44.3 | more people should do and we asked a librarian, a nice woman named Mercy outside of Tulsa. |
2:51.4 | She looked through her catalog, found references throughout historical text. |
2:56.0 | As long as America as a concept has existed, there were peripheral mentions of both Praxis and |
3:02.8 | Thistle. Although that didn't tell us what they were or how to find them. |
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