Amy Ryan
speaker
134 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 28 May
Amy Ryan’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You Again You Again
After his death, Felix was surprised to find himself at the party where four decades earlier he'd met his wife.
There he was again in Arnold Dobson's apartment, which was barely furnished and reeked of cigarettes.
If he remembered correctly, this was just before Arnie left the city to teach French literature at a university in the middle of some gray Ohio prairie.
But even stranger than being back in his old friend's underheated loft, everyone standing around in their winter coats, was that he himself was 33 again, and no longer had that constant thrum of discomfort in his knees.
He was also alarmed to notice that he was holding a blue plastic cup filled with whiskey.
One never forgot the smell.
Peat smoke and wood like a damp field the devil had walked through.
He placed the cup on an end table where he hoped it might go unnoticed, along with a few bottles of beer and a half-empty glass of wine.
He didn't know how he'd gotten here, but felt no disorientation.
It was remarkable how little he thought of slipping back into this moment, and yet looking down at his blue cup, the taste of whiskey still in his mouth, he was occupied with the same revulsion that had caused his older self to give up the drink.
For him, that taste had once been a heady combination of relief and sophistication, but now on his tongue, it tasted like rot and sugar.
The feeling of waking up without having brushed your teeth the night before.
He wondered with a sense of longing how much foolishness he could have cut out of his life if he had quit indulging in this stuff all the way back then.
He might have even avoided putting his health in such a state toward the end of his life.
But standing there, he was intrigued to realize that then was now, and yet he still was not a drinker.
Here was his chance.
As he considered the implications of this, he heard a familiar voice.
Are you the tap dancer Arnold hired?
He looked up from where he abandoned his cup, and there she was, Anna.
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