Tim Curry
speaker
1,074 appearances
3 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2025
last heard 30 Aug
Tim Curry’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Centuries passed.
And the tower rose to such heights that to look up at it or down from it
was to become dizzy.
There were collapses that began like a massive clearing of the throat and ended like a prairie shuddering under the hooves of gigantic cattle.
But the Minotaur developed new technologies, perfected his technique, and worked day and night.
never pausing even for a moment's rest.
Gradually it became clear that the tower was a pyramid.
diminishing at every new level by a space just broad enough to accommodate the minotaur's feet.
And with every new layer of stone the air got warmer and began to smell the same.
At first something like a laundry hamper.
Then more like inside the mouth of a sun baked cadaver
Eventually the Minotaur discovered that the ceiling was not the translucent blue plastic he had always assumed it was
But blue painted plaster.
cracked and warped by age.
When his tower was high enough that he could touch his upraised elbow to the ceiling, he went all the way down to the bottom and climbed all the way back up.
Carrying a long stone roughly the size of his leg.
He used this stone to knock a hole through the plaster, lathing, and masonry of the supposed sky, and when the stone rattled off into emptiness on the other side, he reached up into the hole and pulled himself through.
There he was.
Belly down in a cinder block tunnel.
But after only a few yards, the tunnel became panelled in wood.
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