Listen "The Lightning Rod Man by Herman Melville"
Episode Synopsis
The Lightning Rod Man is a short audio play based on the story by Herman Melville. Melville is best known to us as the author of such classic novels as Moby Dick and Billy Budd. But Melville also had a lighter side. In The Lightning Rod Man he has fun contrasting the person who appreciates and embraces life, despite all of its hazards, with the person who fears it. The short play opens during a thunder storm, when a man selling lightning rods shows up at the door of a man who is in awe at the majesty of thunder and lightning.
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