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The Finest Story in the World

By: Rudyard Kipling
Narrated by: Shaun Lawton
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"I was a king in Babylon and you were a christian slave"

A young bank clerk named Charlie Mears, who longs to be a writer, tells about sea voyages and adventures of a Viking and a Greek galley slave. Gradually it becomes evident that Charlie is remembering past lives. The finest Story has to be written in time because the threads from the past may be broken...

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Enjoyed it. Both main characters are equally arrogant and ignorant.
I'm reminded of Khalil Gibran poem "you are the arrows from which your children as living arrows are sent forth."

The Finest Story in the World

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The Finest Story in the World, together with some short stories written by Borges, Poe and Max Beerbohm, is one the finest stories in the world ever written. Woven in intricate thread of contemporary, ancient and Indian settings, it places the narrator as a an apt and mature scribe of a young and rough storyteller of his previous life experiences in an ancient galley.

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