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A young clerical student, returning home on a cold Good Friday evening, experiences a profound revelation about human connection through time after sharing the biblical story of Peter's denial with two widows. What begins as a tale of despair transforms into a powerful realization about the unbroken chain linking past suffering to present emotions, ultimately restoring the student's sense of meaning and purpose.

• Setting of desolate Russian countryside with winter returning unexpectedly on Good Friday
• Student's initial pessimism about unchanging human suffering throughout history
• Encounter with two widows by their campfire where he retells Peter's denial of Jesus
• Unexpected emotional response from the women to the ancient biblical story
• Student's revelation about the continuity of human experience across centuries
• Final epiphany that "truth and beauty" have guided human life from biblical times to present
• Transformation from despair to seeing life as "enchanting, marvelous and full of lofty meaning"

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In this final installment of Aesop's fables, we present "The Wolf and the Lamb," a timeless tale about power, false accusations, and the arbitrary nature of tyranny. The story culminates with the profound dying words of the lamb: "Any excuse will serve a tyrant."

• A wolf spots a lamb drinking from a spring downstream and decides to make it his supper
• The wolf falsely accuses the lamb of muddying his drinking water
• When the lamb points out this is impossible since water flows downstream, the wolf claims the lamb insulted him a year ago
• The lamb explains this couldn't be true as it's only six months old
• Undeterred, the wolf declares "If it was not you, it was your father" before attacking
• Before dying, the lamb delivers the moral: "Any excuse will serve a tyrant"
• This is the 14th and final Aesop's fable in our series

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This podcast challenges categorization as a sleep aid, positioning itself instead as a space for practicing boredom together through Aesop's fables. Ron reads "The Woodman and the Serpent," a tale about kindness betrayed and the nature of wickedness.

• Clarification that this podcast is not designed to help listeners fall asleep
• Exploration of the difference between boredom and sleep as mental states
• Reading of Aesop's "The Woodman and the Serpent" fable
• Discussion of the moral "no gratitude from the wicked"

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