Obi-Wan reads The Waste Land
Jason B. Jones at Bookslut has kindly decided to share with us one of his most prized possession: an out-of-print audio recording of Alec Guiness reading T.S. Eliot poems.
What’s hilarious about the recording is listening to the voice of Obi-Wan Kenobi reading The Waste Land. (When I started playing the tape at home, my 4-year-old cocked his head and asked, “What’s Ben Kenobi saying?”) […] But what’s really splendid about the recording is hearing Eliot’s poems read by someone who knows how to act.
Jones includes an mp3 snippet from Guiness’ Waste Land reading, and a further snippet of Eliot himself reading from the same poem.
(Also, just for kicks, he includes a link to an old, nonsensical Wikipedia entry for The Waste Land, which appears to have since been altered.)
