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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To lose her.
Suddenly.
Almost for no reason.
And certainly without any explanation.
I remember looking down at a pair of singular tracks made in a light snow the night before, at how they were gradually effacing themselves beneath the tires of the morning traffic, and thinking that my only other choice was fire, ashes, abandonment, solitude.
All of which happened anyway, and soon after, and by divorce.
I know this isn't much, but I wanted to explain this life to you, even if I had to become, over the years, someone else to do it.
You have to think of me what you think of me.
I had to live my life, even its late, florid style.
Before you judge this, think of her.
Then think of fire, its laughter, the music of splintering beams and glass, the flames reaching through the second story of a house, almost as if to mistakenly rescue someone who left you years ago.
It is so American, fire.
So like us.
It's desolation.
I love when someone's gone, that moment of the Billie Holiday song.
She sang often of some affair or someone gone and therefore permanent.
That is the moment where I was like, I need to put down this book, take a long sip of wine, and stare off at the moon.
Yeah, it's just, it's overwhelming.
And the syntax is so parsed out that...
You can feel the overwhelm of all the images and the nouns.
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