A Reading of "Warning. When I am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple" by Jenny Joseph

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A Reading of "Warning. When I am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple" by Jenny Joseph

And a little extraneous waffle.

Helen Pluckrose

Mar 04, 2023

This is just a wonderful poem and it was my mother’s favourite and it was very apposite for my mother!

I am beginning with it as I have said I wanted to do audio versions of my essays for paying subscribers. So, I am mostly testing that I can use this function of audible but also testing my own speech. Following my illness, I have a slight slur and a decided lisp and it is effortful to override these enough to speak with clarity. (This is one of the reasons I have only been writing) However, it is getting easier and I can do it for longer so I am hopeful of resuming my normal speech soon.

Anyway, enjoy this short humorous poem written in 1961 which I am sure many of you already know. I am reading it from the book above which is illustrated by Pythia Ashton-Jewell.

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Less of a podcast and more of an informal miscellany of rants, readings & general bletherings for my paid subscribers! Here, I intend to read my own essays here for those who find it more convenient to listen as well. I will also read and discuss extracts of some of the books and essays about liberalism I think are most important and have some spontaneous rants!

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