John Hagedorn
speaker
1,833 appearances
5 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 29 Mar
John Hagedorn’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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My position is like that of a person wounded in a dream.
He feels the wound, though he cannot recollect when he received it.
Come, then, thou regenerate man, thou extravagant prodigal, thou awakened sleeper, thou all-powerful visionary, thou invincible millionaire.
Once again, review thy past life of starvation and wretchedness.
Revisit the scenes where fate and misfortune conducted, and where despair received thee.
Too many diamonds, too much gold and splendor, are now reflected by the mirror in which Monte Cristo seeks to behold Dante's.
Hide thy diamonds, bury thy gold, shroud thy splendor, exchange riches for poverty, liberty for a prison, a living body for a corpse.
As he thus reasoned, Monte Cristo walked down to the Rue de la Casserie.
It was the same through which, twenty-four years ago, he had been conducted by a silent and nocturnal guard.
The houses, today so smiling and animated, were on that night dark, mute, and closed.
"'And yet they were the same,' murmured Monte Cristo.
"'Only now it is broad daylight instead of night.'
It is the sun which brightens the place, and makes it appear so cheerful.
He proceeded towards the quay to the Rue Saint-Laurent, and advanced to the Consigna.
It was the point where he had embarked.
A pleasure boat with striped awning was going by.
Monte Cristo called the owner, who immediately rode up to him with the eagerness of a boatman hoping for a good fare.
The weather was magnificent, and the excursion a treat.
The sun, red and flaming, was sinking into the embrace of the welcoming ocean.
The sea, smooth as crystal, was now and then disturbed by the leaping of fish who were pursued by some unseen enemy and sought for safety in another element, while on the extreme verge of the horizon might be seen the fishermen's boats, white and graceful as the seagull, or the merchant vessels bound for Corsica or Spain."
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