James Allen Hall
speaker
2,199 appearances
11 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Aug
James Allen Hall’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I didn't think he'd make it.
Three weeks ago, they told him that he had aplastic anemia and nothing could be done.
Joe had been a rotten patient, moaning operatically, throwing chairs at nurses.
When he got the bad news, there was a big change.
He called the relatives with whom he had been disaffected, was anointed and communicated for the first time since the age of eight when he was raped by a priest and made a will.
As death drew nearer, Joe grew nicer, almost serene.
Then the anemia began to disappear, not because of medicines, but on its own.
Ready to die, it looks like Joe has more of life to go.
He'll go home soon.
When will you get out of here, he asks me.
I don't know.
When the x-ray shows no more pneumonia.
I've been here three weeks this time.
What have I accomplished?
Read some Balzac.
Spent quality time with friends.
Come back from death's door and prayed.
Prayed a lot.
Barry Bragg, a former lover of a former lover and a new Episcopalian, has AIDS too, and gave me a leather-bound and gold-trimmed copy of The Office, the one with all the antiphons.
My list of daily intercessions is as long as a Russian novel.
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