Daniel Alarcón
speaker
2,010 appearances
36 recordings
11 series
first heard Feb 2022
last heard 10 Jul
Daniel Alarcón’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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He'd taken the lid off.
He'd unbolted the small bright bell that kept the buried one quiet.
And somewhere in his first winter, the buried one started calling.
And he didn't have the rules.
Because I couldn't make him take the rules.
Because there was no version of me at that closing table who could have made a reasonable man believe a thing that I only believed because I heard it answer from under my own feet.
He heard something call him in the dark.
And he had no uncle.
"'and no story from a woman named Eleanor, "'and no cousin to hold him back from the door.
"'And he answered it, the way you answer when you're called, "'the way the men in the storm answered, "'the way Wesley nearly did.
"'I think about Lowell more than anybody.'
Dying alone up there at 78, heart going, knowing he was going.
And the thing he must have worried about most at the end wasn't his own death.
It was the bell.
It was who'd get the place after, and whether they'd be the kind of fools who'd take the lid off.
That's why the will said what it said.
The two who used it as boys, who will know enough to leave it as they found it.
He picked us because he thought we'd respect the rules.
And we didn't.
We laughed at them and rang the bell on the second night.
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