Emma Scherzarko
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316 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
Emma Scherzarko’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Plenty of new stories try to sell you on a vision of what the world could be.
Of what it should be.
There's a word for that.
Fantasy.
And while lesser minds will take comfort in it, that's not the reason we tell stories.
We spend enough time dreaming while we're asleep.
No, the reason we tell stories is to understand how things are, the way of the world.
The old stories, they don't care a jot for how things should be.
They get down to business.
They remind you that everything has a place.
That there is an order to things.
That's a good lesson for you to remember, you know.
You know what people say about us.
That we're brutish, slow-witted, greedy, covetous.
They say we are monsters.
That's what the new stories say about us, anyway.
But not the old ones.
Those are there to remind the world of what we really are.
To remind them that, whatever they want us to be, we are that we are.
I promised you a story, didn't I?
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