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All this I did without you
A letter from Gerald Durrell to Lee McGeorge, read by Tom Hiddleston. From Letters Live. letterslive.com...
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@lacicake
@lacicake 6 лет назад
He could read the McDonald's menu and it'd be the best thing I've ever heard.
@D82087
@D82087 5 лет назад
Laci Cole agreed 🙌🙌😂
@mase5995
@mase5995 5 лет назад
I want him to read the Fitnessgram pacer test
@lostfootage1999
@lostfootage1999 5 лет назад
I GENUINELY CACKLED AT THIS
@aciditysquad7832
@aciditysquad7832 5 лет назад
lmao
@커피개구리
@커피개구리 5 лет назад
Totally agreed
@Theblackdragon136
@Theblackdragon136 8 лет назад
I feel like these are vows and im like yes tom i will marry you
@MoonLight-iz2yz
@MoonLight-iz2yz 6 лет назад
Theblackdragon136 Same!! 😍😍😘
@janmots2829
@janmots2829 4 года назад
Me too... 😘😍😍 I would marry him in a heartbeat... ❤💜
@niccolehoody7317
@niccolehoody7317 4 года назад
Lol yeah 💖👍🥰
@lucy.laufeyson.
@lucy.laufeyson. 3 года назад
me too I love him so much 😂💞
@powermurmel
@powermurmel 3 года назад
Damn yes
@ayamewilliams2065
@ayamewilliams2065 7 лет назад
This is why we need to go back to letter writing
@danamichaels6936
@danamichaels6936 6 лет назад
this is more than a letter, this is a damn masterpiece!
@Nimloth31
@Nimloth31 6 лет назад
Ayame Williams Do these readings always happen?
@Nimloth31
@Nimloth31 6 лет назад
Ayame Williams Where did it happen? I'm not british...
@May04bwu
@May04bwu 5 лет назад
Right? I miss it.
@alyssabiffin5489
@alyssabiffin5489 5 лет назад
i still write letters many of which are like this one that i never sent out. i'm 16 and unlike most teenagers i love poetry. out of all of it i find it more better to send letters than text, a letter has a lot more meaning to me than a text. do you think so as well ?
@曾一凡-k4q
@曾一凡-k4q 6 лет назад
An Authorized Biography by Douglas Botting -1999): My darling McGeorge, You said that things seemed clearer when they were written down. Well, here with a very boring letter in which I will try and put everything down so that you may read and re-read it in horror at your folly in getting involved with me. Deep breath. To begin with I love you with a depth and passion that I have felt for no one else in this life and if it astonishes you it astonishes me as well. Not, I hasten to say, because you are not worth loving. Far from it. It’s just that, first of all, I swore I would not get involved with another woman. Secondly, I have never had such a feeling before and it is almost frightening. Thirdly, I would never have thought it possible that another human being could occupy my waking (and sleeping) thoughts to the exclusion of almost everything else. Fourthly, I never thought that - even if one was in love - one could get so completely besotted with another person, so that a minute away from them felt like a thousand years. Fifthly, I never hoped, aspired, dreamed that one could find everything one wanted in one person. I was not such an idiot as to believe this was possible. Yet in you I have found everything I want: you are beautiful, gay, giving, gentle, idiotically and deliciously feminine, sexy, wonderfully intelligent and wonderfully silly as well. I want nothing else in this life than to be with you, to listen and watch you (your beautiful voice, your beauty), to argue with you, to laugh with you, to show you things and share things with you, to explore your magnificent mind, to explore your wonderful body, to help you, protect you, serve you, and bash you on the head when I think you are wrong … Not to put too fine a point on it I consider that I am the only man outside mythology to have found the crock of gold at the rainbow’s end.
@曾一凡-k4q
@曾一凡-k4q 6 лет назад
But - having said all that - let us consider things in detail. Don’t let this become public but … well, I have one or two faults. Minor ones, I hasten to say. For example, I am inclined to be overbearing. I do it for the best possible motives (all tyrants say that) but I do tend (without thinking) to tread people underfoot. You must tell me when I am doing it to you, my sweet, because it can be a very bad thing in a marriage. Right. Second blemish. This, actually, is not so much a blemish of character as a blemish of circumstance. Darling I want you to be you in your own right and I will do everything I can to help you in this. But you must take into consideration that I am also me in my own right and that I have a headstart on you … What I am trying to say is that you must not feel offended if you are sometimes treated simply as my wife. Always remember that what you lose on the swings you gain on the roundabouts. But I am an established ‘creature’ in the world, and so - on occasions - you will have to live in my shadow. Nothing gives me less pleasure than this but it is a fact of life that has to be faced. Third (and very important and nasty) blemish: jealousy. I don’t think you know what jealousy is (thank God) in the real sense of the word. I know that you have felt jealousy over Lincoln’s wife and child, but this is what I call normal jealousy, and this - to my regret - is not what I’ve got. What I have got is a black monster that can pervert my good sense, my good humour and any goodness that I have in my make-up. It is really a Jekyll and Hyde situation … my Hyde is stronger than my good sense and defeats me, hard though I try. As I told you, I have always known that this lurks within me, but I could control it, and my monster slumbered and nothing happened to awake it. Then I met you and I felt my monster stir and become half awake when you told me of Lincoln and others you have known, and with your letter my monster came out of its lair, black, irrational, bigoted, stupid, evil, malevolent. You will never know how terribly corrosive jealousy is; it is a physical pain as though you had swallowed acid or red hot coals. It is the most terrible of feelings. But you can’t help it - at least I can’t, and God knows I’ve tried. I don’t want any ex-boyfriends sitting in church when I marry you. On our wedding day I want nothing but happiness, both for you and me, and I know I won’t be happy if there is a church full of your ex-conquests. When I marry you I will have no past, only a future: I don’t want to drag my past into our future and I don’t want you to do it, either. Remember I am jealous of you because I love you. You are never jealous of something you don’t care about. O.K. enough about jealousy. Now let me tell you something I have seen a thousand sunsets and sunrises, on land where it floods forest and mountains with honey coloured light, at sea where it rises and sets like a blood orange in a multicoloured nest of cloud, slipping in and out of the vast ocean. I have seen a thousand moons: harvest moons like gold coins, winter moons as white as ice chips, new moons like baby swans’ feathers. I have seen seas as smooth as if painted, coloured like shot silk or blue as a kingfisher or transparent as glass or black and crumpled with foam, moving ponderously and murderously. I have felt winds straight from the South Pole, bleak and wailing like a lost child; winds as tender and warm as a lover’s breath; winds that carried the astringent smell of salt and the death of seaweeds; winds that carried the moist rich smell of a forest floor, the smell of a million flowers. Fierce winds that churned and moved the sea like yeast, or winds that made the waters lap at the shore like a kitten. I have known silence: the cold, earthy silence at the bottom of a newly dug well; the implacable stony silence of a deep cave; the hot, drugged midday silence when everything is hypnotised and stilled into silence by the eye of the sun; the silence when great music ends. I have heard summer cicadas cry so that the sound seems stitched into your bones. I have heard tree frogs in an orchestration as complicated as Bach singing in a forest lit by a million emerald fireflies. I have heard the Keas calling over grey glaciers that groaned to themselves like old people as they inched their way to the sea. I have heard the hoarse street vendor cries of the mating Fur seals as they sang to their sleek golden wives, the crisp staccato admonishment of the Rattlesnake, the cobweb squeak of the Bat and the belling roar of the Red deer knee-deep in purple heather. I have heard Wolves baying at a winter’s moon, Red howlers making the forest vibrate with their roaring cries. I have heard the squeak, purr and grunt of a hundred multi-coloured reef fishes. I have seen hummingbirds flashing like opals round a tree of scarlet blooms, humming like a top. I have seen flying fish, skittering like quicksilver across the blue waves, drawing silver lines on the surface with their tails. I have seen Spoonbills flying home to roost like a scarlet banner across the sky. I have seen Whales, black as tar, cushioned on a cornflower blue sea, creating a Versailles of fountain with their breath. I have watched butterflies emerge and sit, trembling, while the sun irons their wings smooth. I have watched Tigers, like flames, mating in the long grass. I have been dive-bombed by an angry Raven, black and glossy as the Devil’s hoof. I have lain in water warm as milk, soft as silk, while around me played a host of Dolphins. I have met a thousand animals and seen a thousand wonderful things … but - All this I did without you. This was my loss. All this I want to do with you. This will be my gain. All this I would gladly have forgone for the sake of one minute of your company, for your laugh, your voice, your eyes, hair, lips, body, and above all for your sweet, ever surprising mind which is an enchanting quarry in which it is my privilege to delve. Letter to his fiancée Lee, (31 July 1978), published in Gerald Durrell: An Authorized Biography by Douglas Botting (1999)
@MsButterflysting
@MsButterflysting 6 лет назад
Thank you for taking the time, what a poignant letter indeed. How lovely to hear it read aloud with a polished voice.
@girishbhalchandra1580
@girishbhalchandra1580 5 лет назад
@@曾一凡-k4q bless you.
@bealatorre9657
@bealatorre9657 5 лет назад
Thank you for doing this.
@plls2880
@plls2880 5 лет назад
@@曾一凡-k4q Thank you!
@leonshargo
@leonshargo 4 года назад
To all the young ladies out there: don't settle for anything less than this...
@AnArtGuy_1
@AnArtGuy_1 4 года назад
I don't think my heart would ever let me anyways💀
@ryder4553
@ryder4553 4 года назад
@@AnArtGuy_1 love your username xD
@annd8396
@annd8396 3 года назад
Really..? Lol 😂 I’m jealous because I love you.??! Wonder how many wife beaters have said that..?! On yer bike mate 🤣
@saniyakhan86
@saniyakhan86 3 года назад
We won't ❤️
@paulandstephanie1
@paulandstephanie1 3 года назад
But one should also consider their own qualities to attract such a mate, make sure a person isn't "settling for less" with you.
@mollykoenig7009
@mollykoenig7009 11 месяцев назад
I wasn't expecting this to make me cry. I write letters to my wife. She is the most magnificent, loving, tempestuous, adventurous, intelligent, fascinating, painfully beautiful, and ever so wonderfully tangible creature I could have ever hoped to have come across. She's perfectly imperfect. Flawlessly flawed. She's promised to forever be mine, and I will spend the rest of my foolish, clumsy, bumbling existence striving to make her happy.
@lucialu2x
@lucialu2x 9 месяцев назад
Wow how lucky she is, to have such one to adore her like that. You have the heart in you sir.
@mollykoenig7009
@mollykoenig7009 9 месяцев назад
@lucialu2x Ma'am* ;) and she loves me just as much. So wonderful in this long life, to have a person like her.
@Redlox70
@Redlox70 8 месяцев назад
@susannepriddy9095
@susannepriddy9095 6 месяцев назад
I try cards for the major holidays. Very few to None are reciprocated . Wait ✋ years ago I got lottery tickets LOL Happy St PATRICK'S DAY everyone🫑🥝🍀
@LiliannaRose-g8y
@LiliannaRose-g8y 4 месяца назад
You are such a sweet person.
@mathani83
@mathani83 8 лет назад
It is a good thing that he was not my teacher in school. I would never be able to concentrate, except on the beauty of his voice.
@kittandragon1048
@kittandragon1048 6 лет назад
Mathani Ralte If he was my damn teacher, boy, I'd remember EVERYTHING from that class!
@charliem.p.4864
@charliem.p.4864 6 лет назад
Solance Akebana I would be like these girls in Indiana Jones with "I love you" drawn on their eyelids.
@MultiChacha20
@MultiChacha20 6 лет назад
So true!!!!
@sanya5538
@sanya5538 4 года назад
lol I have d same problem with me econ teacher... I must say it is very distracting
@annabelle7123
@annabelle7123 4 года назад
And his face
@virly1109
@virly1109 8 лет назад
i always love him saying "darling" 😄😄😄
@morelaikacons
@morelaikacons 4 года назад
Virlita D A me too
@jamesncraigrocjames2092
@jamesncraigrocjames2092 3 года назад
Me yoo
@stria2902
@stria2902 3 года назад
U r not alone 😁
@a.j.soleil3955
@a.j.soleil3955 3 года назад
Oh god YESS!!!😍😍
@roniosullivan-hawkes9983
@roniosullivan-hawkes9983 3 года назад
Its a British thing alot of us say darling in a similar fashion
@tinadambrino1026
@tinadambrino1026 8 лет назад
this is just so heartfelt. that man was so in love with her. do men still have it in their heart to write I don't know but it is lovely
@sapphirestonecastle228
@sapphirestonecastle228 7 лет назад
Tina Dambrino I am captivated with his voice and so with the text his reading. Imagining my hubby is reading this letter to me, that I know it's impossible. Lol!
@anandadaquino3604
@anandadaquino3604 6 лет назад
Yes, there are men like him yet, BUT they are not very common, it is so hard to find them.
@danamichaels6936
@danamichaels6936 6 лет назад
I think they do. Not like this probably since the English language is so bastardized now.
@anandadaquino3604
@anandadaquino3604 6 лет назад
Dana Michaels well, I am Brazilian and my ex is a fucking bastard with words. I have some e-mails from him absolutly beautiful. That man really loved me.
@calkestis5817
@calkestis5817 6 лет назад
People today generally can’t write anyway
@stephanieking6048
@stephanieking6048 8 лет назад
His voice is music to my ears. Damn. I could listen to him all day. *swoons*
@renea228
@renea228 8 лет назад
+Stephanie Reyes same for me!
@jasmineyoung2071
@jasmineyoung2071 8 лет назад
+Stephanie Reyes same here
@brennstone
@brennstone 8 лет назад
+Stephanie Reyes And the way he says "I love you..."
@mariannem2594
@mariannem2594 7 лет назад
Chris Evans uggggggggggg same I just freaking love this man
@hiddleboners6376
@hiddleboners6376 6 лет назад
Do a try not to Laugh Challenge
@telemachus7732
@telemachus7732 Год назад
This man EMBODIES grace and royal behavior. Even if he is acting, he UNDERSTANDS the persona.
@SeasonsChange14
@SeasonsChange14 Год назад
Yes, Tom Hiddleston's voice is honeyed and dreamy. I am not, however, persuaded even by his magnificent reading of the letter that the author is anything other than a very literate yet dangerous person. Explaining away a "black monster" of jealousy by reminding the person regarding whom one is jealous that you wouldn't be jealous if you didn't love her is nothing short of frightening. It is what domestic abusers always say when they hurt or kill their (former) wives or (former) girlfriends. To the recipient of this letter: Run, my dear, and don't even THINK about marrying this man!
@ashuggtube
@ashuggtube Месяц назад
Maybe. This was a letter from a 53 year old man, well established in careers of naturalism and writing, writing to a 29 year old woman. He speaks of what he has learned of himself in his life and his failing first marriage (he was divorced the following year). Lee did marry George in 1979 and remained with him until his death in 1995.
@JakeZmak
@JakeZmak 26 дней назад
I think you’re missing the point of the letter. You’re definitely missing the point of what he means about jealousy.
@Sissymosier
@Sissymosier 8 лет назад
whatever woman is blessed enough to end up with him....Jesus, can he read the hell out of poetry (I know it's a letter but very poetic)....I love the way he says 'everything'
@Nocturnes1984
@Nocturnes1984 7 лет назад
I don't understand how you can judge someone only by his voice.... don't get me wrong, I quite like him aswell but he could be a total asshole behind the voice...yet you think he is some kind of god, ...because of his voice? Women rly need to look further than the outside...men aswell though...
@kimberlyjeanne9456
@kimberlyjeanne9456 6 лет назад
Sara Mosier He could just read off the shopping list for me and I’d melt lol
@angelasteely3314
@angelasteely3314 5 лет назад
"Besotted" is my new favorite word.
@GCblastercadet
@GCblastercadet 7 лет назад
close your eyes and imagine Loki
@markjasper8837
@markjasper8837 7 лет назад
Gamer GC I did :D
@kittandragon1048
@kittandragon1048 6 лет назад
BlueParrot Games Lol... I plead the fifth on if I do that...
@ShyShadow666
@ShyShadow666 6 лет назад
You read my mind XD
@nilanjana3317
@nilanjana3317 5 лет назад
oh gawd....now i cant stop
@k8tina
@k8tina 5 лет назад
Same 🥰
@JoRiver11
@JoRiver11 Год назад
The writer sounds like he is in love with himself and with the act of writing, not with the person to whom the letter was written. Pretty words, beautiful reader, alarming red flags in the meaning.
@bettynowill6472
@bettynowill6472 Месяц назад
If you saw the series about the Durrells in Corfu Gerald Durrell was the youngest son who was an amazing animal lover. It was a lovely series written by Gerald about his English family living in Corfu for 4 years, very financially strapped, and how they managed to thrive in a strange country. It is available on PBS Passport and I cannot recommend it highly enough, you will understand Gerald much better. He was about 30 years older than his wife.
@Logan27T
@Logan27T 8 лет назад
This is the ONLY actor that does things like this. No one else comes even close. Please tell me this man has some God damn flaws. Otherwise, the fact that I will never marry or even meet him will kill me. People shouldn't be allowed to be this fucking fantastic.
@zoeh5016
@zoeh5016 6 лет назад
Flaws: He... He um... Shit Nope. I got nothing. I'm pretty sure he's perfect.
@solus8685
@solus8685 6 лет назад
Nhu Tran This is the opposite of a flaw
@jenwho1212
@jenwho1212 3 года назад
Ah at a guess, maybe some cynicism, or geekiness, or the anger and impatience that quick witted people sometimes have. Having to be careful of his look for his work, which can be seen as vanity. Professional and loving his work, which can mean not available day to day, with variations in moods because of the different characters played, can be felt as self centered. Being so gifted and talented that everyone follows them and they have to be very strong willed to not fall into temptation. Being difficult to live with because we could feel that we can never be good enough and people put the people next to him in the shadows, he has to be mindful enough to put himself in the shadows, very hard to do and not instinctive, and he loves the spotlight or he wouldn't work as he does... The people loving him would have to be very sure of themselves, being that talented can attract vultures, which can seriously affect the mental health. Feeling better about it?
@samihaafrinmaisha5868
@samihaafrinmaisha5868 3 года назад
i mean its not even overrated that just amazing cause people admire truly flawless people,flaws indeed are sometimes attractive but this man hes just something i cant get over with
@samihaafrinmaisha5868
@samihaafrinmaisha5868 3 года назад
@@jenwho1212 this is true and i also understand one thing that people with flaws wont be appreciated much because he is so flawless but one thing is ive seen so many actors and ive seen chaotic and ones with flaws but this human is just genuinely this nice and sane,i dont really think he tries to be that hes absolutely real or else he would break out,im sure he has hardships as well, but im also sure hes a genuine peace and i mean peace so yeah that makes him so different and you know the real world has so much cruelty and chaos going on so people just fall into his peaceful character,im sure he feels bad that he cannot be there for the lot,but he tries. and he loves acting as his proffesion,he isnt for spotlight because he absolutely never complained when his life wasnt this higlighted as it is now. well thats kinda all, we humans want peace after all,its normal for people to be flawed and to be flawless,not everything is bad not everything is good so yeah,maybe his character has a ratio of more sanity in it
@cmhofert
@cmhofert 8 лет назад
Oh my god... It hurts to know that you can never have that... -cries- where's all the gentlemen....
@doublee3886
@doublee3886 8 лет назад
We are here. Just find a man who admires Hiddleston as an actor and a gentleman; he may not be Hiddleston, but he might be decent and loving and romantic. And in this world where life and happiness are so short, grab for what and for whom you can get. Love and Romance are the only things that make life worth living.
@donnahagen5742
@donnahagen5742 7 лет назад
Double D -- Too old now.
@TheEpicPlace
@TheEpicPlace 7 лет назад
Double E You write like a beautiful confident soul sir. It's rare. I wish you well.
@TheEpicPlace
@TheEpicPlace 7 лет назад
Double E I relate more with you then all these fangirls. Though I'm a girl. It's Tom's reflection of an ideology or truth and unashamed vulnerability. Something a picture of relationship that we wish to see more of in this life.
@sindresdatter
@sindresdatter 6 лет назад
Jessica Georgen They got killer by Americans(´∀`*)
@Auric-BraiNerd
@Auric-BraiNerd Год назад
This letter was going so so well.... A little overeager but still could be cute and then it took such a turn for the worse at the "you'll be in my shadow and exist exclusively as my wife" and "I am a jealous monster who will hurt people" 😬
@julieet52
@julieet52 Месяц назад
But I do hope you watched till the end. Its just so beautifully written. The ending always makes me cry, its just so beautiful 😢 .
@Gunbudder
@Gunbudder Год назад
Gerald and Lee have a pretty awesome story. Gerald was a writer and gave a lecture at Duke where Lee was a student, which is how they met. They stayed married until he died, and Lee is still alive (73). He was about 30 years older than her when they married
@ashuggtube
@ashuggtube Месяц назад
He was about 30 years older than her when he died, too
@juliesteimle3867
@juliesteimle3867 6 лет назад
Absolutely amazing letter. Nobody writes letters like this anymore. And Tom's reading just made it more real.
@gimenaandreafink782
@gimenaandreafink782 3 года назад
Love the letter!!!!
@StarboyXL9
@StarboyXL9 Год назад
We do actually. We get rejected anyway and called "creepy" because we aren't rich, handsome, and fit! Ah such a joy to be a man in a matriarchy!
@BoarhideGaming
@BoarhideGaming Год назад
@@StarboyXL9 Maybe, just maybe, women reject you because you blame the rejection on perceived lack of wealth, looks and fitness instead of your actual shortcomings and flaws, likely flaws of character, seeing as you unironically describe the world around you as "matriarchy" ...which is laughable.
@janebrown7231
@janebrown7231 Год назад
@@BoarhideGaming Guys who start with this warped mindset are known as incels. In their subculture, they can become quite dangerous when they become deeply obsessional.
@BoarhideGaming
@BoarhideGaming Год назад
@@janebrown7231 Yeah, I know about incels and MGTOWs and the whole shebang. Scary mindset. There's a good reason militaries and police forces around the world have started teaching their cadets about these groups as potentially dangerous groups.
@krown4135
@krown4135 8 лет назад
Oh sweet Jesus.. Listening to him reading that letter was so wonderful.. I swear to God he's sweeter than chocolate.. I can listen to his voice all day and night long.. I am charmed.. and obviously doomed but so beautifully.. damnit
@fireruby544
@fireruby544 8 лет назад
Let's not forget, he's not the one who actually wrote the letter.
@krown4135
@krown4135 8 лет назад
No, but he is the who reads it with such a delight, I enjoy listening to his voice.. And by the way he doesn't need to write it, either way he stays one extraordinary and different person in a good way :)
@fireruby544
@fireruby544 8 лет назад
Krisi Bieber​ .......Yeah, I do too.
@lizardas
@lizardas Год назад
@@fireruby544 But he could not have read it in that way without connecting very deeply with the emotions it contained.
@alessandrabertoldi8210
@alessandrabertoldi8210 8 лет назад
...aaand that's how you brighten up a winter Monday!
@annawilliams8943
@annawilliams8943 8 лет назад
So true this just made my day
@sindresdatter
@sindresdatter 6 лет назад
Alessandra Bertoldi Hey winter is the best! Well..........you know When you wake up, it's warm in the bed you look outside the window, you see snow, and boats in the fjord. you see the snowy mountans across the fjord. And you go make a cup of coco sit by the window and listen to this. Now that has to be one of the most fantastical things in life.........ok that guy is magical tho.
@kittandragon1048
@kittandragon1048 6 лет назад
Alessandra Bertoldi That's how you brighten up ANY day.
@jccurran9327
@jccurran9327 4 года назад
Hi everyone! Not only does he have an exquisite voice with great tonality, he is an exquisite public speaker with great delivery. He matches his body movements and expressions with the reading material. In otherwords, one very consumate Professional ! Hail Tom !
@janineberry5904
@janineberry5904 8 лет назад
Watching the ladies in the background. Goofy grins all around while Tom is reading. Very similar to my own huge goofy grin.. 😆
@karipopovic6047
@karipopovic6047 Год назад
Gerald Durrell was an absolute riot with a pen. He is greatly missed.
@twintower8274
@twintower8274 8 лет назад
you r never jealous of something u dont care about......so true
@KeziahC384
@KeziahC384 6 лет назад
I listened to this while I did my work...I don't know why but I was not distracted at all. His voice was so soothing that it was like music. The only time I got distracted was when I looked up and just stared at him 'cause he's pretty to look at 😂
@EmmalovesDarcy
@EmmalovesDarcy 8 лет назад
Stumbled across this by accident and now CANNOT stop watching/listening to it. My heart soars every time I hear it! Is it just me who pretends for those twelve minutes that Tom's written that letter himself and he's reading it just for me? *swoons* If only!! xx
@ilanataub9169
@ilanataub9169 6 лет назад
He is so nice he is my neighbour and i do swoon when talking to him.
@aliciaborth3016
@aliciaborth3016 5 лет назад
@@ilanataub9169 It would be awesome to be his neighbor, except for the paparazzi hanging out there.
@sreelakshmiav5544
@sreelakshmiav5544 5 лет назад
@@ilanataub9169 you are lucky 😀😇
@carolemccosker8840
@carolemccosker8840 4 года назад
Dam girl I thought he had written it just for me !
@janebrown7231
@janebrown7231 Год назад
If Tom had actually written that narcissist's handbook, we should be running away as fast as possible. Since he didn't, I'll join the queue for him!
@mdonefrit
@mdonefrit 8 лет назад
Man I wish I could meet him someday
@rosse7270
@rosse7270 7 лет назад
Tom: Because I love you.. Me: 🎶🎵love me, love me, say that you love me 🎵🎵🎵🎶🎼
@champikachampi9898
@champikachampi9898 3 года назад
Wonder full
@champikachampi9898
@champikachampi9898 3 года назад
Wow
@champikachampi9898
@champikachampi9898 3 года назад
Nice! Vois! Love you tom (Loki)
@unseelie63
@unseelie63 7 лет назад
That was truly beautiful.I've read Gerald Durrell's work and enjoyed it tremendously,but this love letter is,in my opinion,the best thing he ever wrote,and Tom really brought it to life.
@yaa63
@yaa63 Год назад
I've read all of Gerald Durrell's work, and have all of his books too...and HAD NO IDEA about this letter...I even thought it was a made up letter it was so perfect, until I came across your comment and went BACK to the intro of the video...baffled and delighted...I even closed my eyes while listening to visualize such richness in vocabulary. So THANK YOU for pointing it out...I shall cherish this video and look for the letter online, printed and put it inside one of his books. Thank you again.
@carolynclitheroe3588
@carolynclitheroe3588 Год назад
Thank goodness someone knows who wrote this.
@LongLiveHumour
@LongLiveHumour Год назад
Spent a significant part of my adolescence tracking down his books in Edinburgh's second-hand bookshops. Now they still sit on a bookshelf in pride of place, cheerfully disintegrating. (The old Penguin editions are not the most durable of objects.) For anyone reading: SEEK OUT HIS BOOKS. God they're good - I laughed so hard it hurt at points, and the joy in them is irreplaceable.
@Lafever1883
@Lafever1883 8 лет назад
He is so enchanting he sounds like melted chocalate
@ohnezahnchendragon1742
@ohnezahnchendragon1742 5 лет назад
😂😂👌🏻 so true
@judeirwin2222
@judeirwin2222 Год назад
Yes, Lafever 1888, and he probably knows how to spell “chocolate”.
@op3129
@op3129 Год назад
@@judeirwin2222 pedant
@KaikiTsuki49
@KaikiTsuki49 8 лет назад
He truly has a gift. It's amazing to me how he can so wonderfully and truthfully capture and express so many forms of art. Just incredible.
@shantishanti1949
@shantishanti1949 Год назад
Beautiful letter.... this is why we need postal services and to educate children to write letters and for us to get back to writing letters...
@jasmineyoung2071
@jasmineyoung2071 8 лет назад
His voice is so mesmerising and charming, it's music to my ears. I could listen to that voice all day and not even get bored. It really captivated me
@plakette26
@plakette26 Год назад
That's exactly was I felt. Gosh He ist incredible and touches my heart.
@georgerowe9166
@georgerowe9166 Год назад
Man, that Gerald Durrell could write and of course Tom Hiddleston's reading of the letter is freaking awesome!
@OmnivorousReader
@OmnivorousReader Год назад
Finally - ONE person in the comments who actually knows who Gerald Durrell was. A small spark in the roiling sea of wokeism pop science.
@Sugarmiffin23
@Sugarmiffin23 Год назад
Love Tom ❤️ Feel for Jacquie (1st wife) having to hear the spiel he wrote to this woman (whilst they were still married), especially when she'd given up so much of her life to "live in his shadow"
@depaula1710
@depaula1710 Год назад
Ugh yeah that would be awful! Under normal circumstances she wouldn't have ever read or heard it though, right? I hope not.
@shawnasabino7958
@shawnasabino7958 Год назад
What a scum and ruins this poem for me.
@wphillips23
@wphillips23 5 месяцев назад
She gracefully cited his alcoholism in the divorce.
@TalanticCentral
@TalanticCentral 8 лет назад
The next Prime minister
@Fatheha95
@Fatheha95 8 лет назад
😂
@snchezmelissa
@snchezmelissa 7 лет назад
Talantic What??? hahahaha!!! 😂😁
@anandadaquino3604
@anandadaquino3604 6 лет назад
WTF HAHAHAHA
@alyshal
@alyshal Год назад
He needs to do an audio book. It will be a best seller
@TheRealRohnaH
@TheRealRohnaH 8 лет назад
Mesmerizing. What a gift he has.
@zainabakhtar3189
@zainabakhtar3189 7 лет назад
Rohna H what a gift he is!
@doraluxofficiell
@doraluxofficiell Месяц назад
This is the most beautiful thing I've ever heard from a man in my life. Why can't all men be like Tommy? He's my ideal. And I will always love Tom Hiddleston not only for his beautiful body, or voice, or mind, but above all for his beautiful soul.
@katenestor1984
@katenestor1984 7 лет назад
I'm so in love with him. All of him. 😍😍
@lushpaw1
@lushpaw1 7 лет назад
i wish people still thought this way.. the wonderfully eloquent play on words. life would be much more musical
@iamblackthorne
@iamblackthorne Год назад
Some do. But no one wishes to hear the words. Too much impatience, too much utilitarian thought, or an inability to comprehend.
@Lisa4662r
@Lisa4662r 8 лет назад
Can I just have him?? 😭😭💕
@maryjane3328
@maryjane3328 6 лет назад
Watching this in 2018. Ugh, my heart Tom. Please don't stop.
@lisaellis9749
@lisaellis9749 5 лет назад
Ma Jane watching this in 2019, lovely poem,, lovely man.
@KxNOxUTA
@KxNOxUTA Год назад
To feel so torn! Tom Hiddleston is precious. And I love that he reads. And I love how he cares about love (and feminism). Now this letter though, is giving me a hard time. Though I suppose it's probably very fitting for it's time? I love all the beautiful descriptions of bautiful things, but they're a little too long winded from today's perspective and for that specific letter. Other things we learn about the person who writes: - It's OK to have dark sides and even OK-ish to be at loss how to handle it, but today's perspective is, that you should have professional help rather than dumpig it on your partner in a "deal with it way". Even if we have "deal breaker" qualities or circumstances at hand, how rude (today) to demand acceptance rather than asking if the other person can live with these sides? Being accountable and showing how we intend to manage our own beast and what types of support we'd like to have (but have no right to demand). - It's OK to be sensual and overflow with emotion, adoration and even lust. What I think though of a letter that is supposed to be a love letter to me, but spends the most time on them, how they feel, what they want .... . From today's perspective, I would hope the same love letter would speak about the sender and their viewpoint, but also ask more questions, ask for the recepients hopes and wants, their wellbeing. Panting a picture alone and of another person and our relationship, rather than striving to explore both together, is by far more telling, by far more loving. - I am plainly, and very personally, discomforted by the imbalance of words on outer beauty versus inner qualities when it comes to her. While we get lots of inner "horrors" about him and then looooots of wordly beauty from him. He says he is not good for her, and he is certainly right. A powerful man, jealous to the point of disregulation, demanding external obedience in exchange for compensations "off the clock" and in way that will not give her any power outside of what he's willing to give or not give behind closed doors. Bragging about his observations and speakig of gladly givig away, what can never be taken from him and would make little difference if never experienced - unless it's with her. A man who is very right about this being bad for her, yet speaking very little about what he will do make up for it (as the purposals are fairly empty). A man like this, in a world where women frequently die and suffer of the men closest to them, while being expected to be accomodating and understanding for "boys will be boys" and men in love losing not just reason, but control. It's a bittersweet video experience. A good revisit of what works and what not, what I've learnt, what I hop to see and not see in future loveletters. And it helps that it is read by a man I care for. As that calms the ringing alarm bells in my body enough to give thought to why I know love, and know how it can be consuming and captivating and intense and beautiful as all the pittoresque nature descriptions, and yet ...... this letter is not about love. It's on the many things conflated with it. It's a story of how far we've come in telling love and human relationships (amongst each other and within) apart. So we could bring them together again, in better ways, and with safe forms of embracing all shadows.
@ashuggtube
@ashuggtube Месяц назад
Well, she married him the following year (1979), co-authored books with him, wrote books of her own about their shared experiences and work, and remained with him until his death in 1995
@linadjokic270
@linadjokic270 6 месяцев назад
I love Durrell! Now, when Tom H. is reading him ..... there's a different light shining through the words and images they create... thank you, master Tom! ❤
@Hallofang
@Hallofang 7 лет назад
Fueling my fanfictions
@champikachampi9898
@champikachampi9898 3 года назад
😘😘😘😘😘😘
@champikachampi9898
@champikachampi9898 3 года назад
😍😍😍😍😍😍😍😍
@deanschevyimpala
@deanschevyimpala 3 года назад
He and Ben Cumberbatch could read the telephonebook and i would love it! ☺Just to listen to their voice...
@luvhertzinc
@luvhertzinc Год назад
Writing letters is a lost art....I would be over the moon to get a letter like this....
@stuartreynolds4480
@stuartreynolds4480 Год назад
Some eye-opening comments revealing the author and the setting, thank you! I watched first, the read some comments- and went from happy to sad, both by way of tears. It reads as the sweetest thing a person could say to another, if like me you don't know, or as i found after the comments, a proposal full of hinted trial and tribulation. Ain't Love grand!
@tanishaprabhu3453
@tanishaprabhu3453 3 года назад
The last part of the letter was brilliant. Also, Tom Hiddleston's voice is a generous gift to the world. I could hear him speak all day long. I sat with my eyes closed, just listening to him and that warmed my heart in a strange kind of way. I love him and his accent and everything he does.
@julietkegoume-onyido5730
@julietkegoume-onyido5730 7 лет назад
Tom Hiddleton! He's still my #1 pick to read poetry, letters,...even the darn, boring phone book. A truly soothing, hypnotic, sensual voice. Perfect cadence, right pauses, beautiful inflection. As a poetess, it would be a dream to have him read & record any of my pieces...My poetic self is loko for Loki! Sending this dream out there, into a welcoming/listening universe! :-)
@mfe23
@mfe23 7 лет назад
Nicely Said... :)
@beckyharding1309
@beckyharding1309 17 дней назад
Not ever taking away from his reading because that is beyond words. But come on, the beauty of this writing itself is stunning.
@mothwaltz4163
@mothwaltz4163 6 лет назад
I came here because, Wow, Tom Hiddleston reads a letter live! and then I saw it: Gerald Freakin' Durrell, one of my favorite authors, wrote the letter. Neat!
@z_binshaibah
@z_binshaibah 3 года назад
If you truly love her, you wont let her sit there in your shadow, each of us has his own shadows and demons fighting and discovering through life, leaving her in your shadow means that she should deal with 2 shadows yours and hers, which is more than one person can handle. He could of said, I want you under my wing, instead in my shadow, which reflect security and safety, but that was away from what he wants. He wants all lights to be focused on him on stage while she stays in the backstage in the dark without any role to play in his scene of life. Love brings both to light, you both pull each other towards it, without surrendering to the darkness of shadows. Acknowledging the other, respect and appreciate him/her. What he said was not love, but a narcissism/ submissive relationship.
@archibaldthejester42069
@archibaldthejester42069 3 года назад
11:13 "I want to watch tigers mating, with you" We get it Gerald. You're in love.
@SnowyMary
@SnowyMary Год назад
It's nice to have someone care about you that much, and be that self-aware, but I can only hope she knew enough of him before to be able to calculate how big of a problem the "treat you as my wife" and the "I can't do anything about this raging jealousy" might become. People do have pasts, they don't disappear. There's potential there, but I really hope they talked this though, esp since the letter hints (like some comments) at a huge power imbalance. Tom can read to me anytime, btw :)
@elizabethgrey9157
@elizabethgrey9157 Год назад
Damn! I recognized who wrote the letter without looking down at the comment! I love Gerald Durrell!
@betenoireindustries
@betenoireindustries Год назад
seriously, he is so hilarious in such a distinctive way.
@rachelnelson4796
@rachelnelson4796 6 лет назад
I want nothing more in life to find someone whom I love as much as the writer adores his beloved, and to be loved in return just the same
@sherlockedism
@sherlockedism 8 лет назад
Smiled so hard my face hurts
@rethacordovano9879
@rethacordovano9879 4 года назад
How is this man still single? He's so eloquent.
@shadmtmtn1603
@shadmtmtn1603 Год назад
Glorious in strengh and weakness, this means love ! As a man, i fully agree with the comment saying "don't settle for less than this", stand up for yourselves, ladies !
@blondechannel
@blondechannel 9 месяцев назад
Tom Hiddleston worthy of reciting. He is perfection.
@aishwaryasrivastava6181
@aishwaryasrivastava6181 5 лет назад
Tom's voice is as smooth as glycerine covered in sandalwood oil. This is such a masterpiece. This is the most honest proclaimation of love I've ever seen. Also, this is obnoxious of me to point out but the middle part of the letter where he talks about his faults and shortcomings sounded scaringly like something Loki would say to his lover. ('You might have to live in my shadow a lot', 'Monstrous jealousy') XD
@ashalvarezz214
@ashalvarezz214 7 лет назад
Wow... I really recommend watching this with rainy moods in the background or any jazz music because it makes the experience even better.
@dennisdilmore7115
@dennisdilmore7115 9 месяцев назад
This man is truly a gift.
@neemya
@neemya 4 года назад
this is so satisfying than asmr
@julieet52
@julieet52 Месяц назад
I always cry at the end. It's so beautifully written. Oh to receive a letter like this, its amazing, I'm glad that they had a long and happy marriage. Made me laugh 😂 , and at the end made me cry again! 😢
@Galemor1
@Galemor1 6 лет назад
I hope he will be the voice of countless hours of tape with stories on them.. Imagine fifthy shades read by him...
@izzy3840
@izzy3840 2 года назад
i just seem to always come back to this video…
@mingxiliu930202
@mingxiliu930202 8 лет назад
I am imagining he is reading this to me :3
@Afke81
@Afke81 8 месяцев назад
I subscribed to the 'Calm' app and I often fall asleep with him reading Winnie The Pooh to me. I never get to the end of the story because I'm asleep within 10 minutes. He has such a soothing voice....
@susannepriddy9095
@susannepriddy9095 6 месяцев назад
C A L M Happy St Patrick's day 💤
@katg5746
@katg5746 8 лет назад
listening to him read the audio book "The Red Necklace" makes me swoon. I hear the main characters voice when he reads.
@ashleewoods9205
@ashleewoods9205 7 лет назад
Kathleen D. I listened to it when I did a book report on that story. Every time I didn't listen to it, I could picture his voice.
@ER-uy7ct
@ER-uy7ct 2 месяца назад
Oh, I listened to that too. Especially that one scene..........damn.
@1evonvielen
@1evonvielen 6 лет назад
well... now I'm crying. he's such a beautiful human being. (and he made this jealousy-part sound Loki af XD)
@deathwitheponine
@deathwitheponine 8 лет назад
Inspirational, funny. Such vivid language. This letter makes me wonder what happened to us. Nobody writes to each other like this anymore.
@rosalyns6495
@rosalyns6495 8 лет назад
SPEECHLESS. I AM SPEECHLESS.
@only1lily
@only1lily 8 лет назад
Back again. I can't get enough of his sweet, sexy voice and this wonderful letter.
@hiddleboners6376
@hiddleboners6376 8 лет назад
Here is text of the letter whitemetropolis.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/gerald-durrell-unexpected-poet/ for those who asked
@emilmenglou4653
@emilmenglou4653 6 лет назад
Thank you!
@jlhmyers75
@jlhmyers75 Год назад
This letter could melt an iceberg.❤
@patricia4838
@patricia4838 4 года назад
Tom reads it beautifully. The letter is written smoothly and poetically. Everything about this is delightful.
@morelaikacons
@morelaikacons 4 года назад
He just read that like he lived it
@StarkidFAN00
@StarkidFAN00 5 лет назад
He's so adorable, smiling at the text like that. *swoons*
@eraestrera5180
@eraestrera5180 7 лет назад
My heart is beating so fast that I can hear it 😍 That's the effect of his voice 😍
@helenamcginty4920
@helenamcginty4920 Год назад
Goodness. Im so glad no one ever wrote me a letter like that. Im such an un romantic that that would end the relationship. I once got a card on valentines day and never even opened it. I found it years later and it was from a sweet young man (we were 16/17 with whom I was friends....or so I thought. Poor chap must have been hurt.
@christopherlundgren3499
@christopherlundgren3499 Год назад
I cried with joy and awe, sorrow and regret, but mainly with Love, both at the beauty and majesty of the words themselves, but also at the sheer compassion, insight, and talent of the performance of their reading. Thank you
@markroberts171
@markroberts171 Год назад
I read all of his books and I adored him, what a good writer
@bonchance9241
@bonchance9241 6 лет назад
the language of love crisp beautiful enunciation from a man in the full flowering of his youth just.......... beautiful.
@shaistafenwick2841
@shaistafenwick2841 Год назад
Durrell was one of the first authors I adored. Thanks so much for this, Mr. Hiddleston.
@saraeli8626
@saraeli8626 7 лет назад
i can't believe this was written in the 70s?
@madsciencegary3830
@madsciencegary3830 Год назад
Notably, from a 53 year old man to a 29 year old colleaugue that he met while she was a graduate student and he was a guest lecturer the previous year. He was still married to another woman, who divorced him the following year due to his alcoholism; not because of his affair with a much younger woman. The letter worked, as they were married almost immediately after his divorce and remained married until his death about 15 years later.
@Rosa-ke4py
@Rosa-ke4py 3 года назад
I need a combination between Tom and the man who wrote the letter. It’s beautiful and so heartbreaking to know that I may not find someone like him.
@joycebowen8958
@joycebowen8958 Год назад
You should watch "The Durells in Corfu" George Durell grew up to be an incredible human being author and he brought the first zoo to England that was used to educate people.
@anahata2009
@anahata2009 Год назад
You mean Durrell? Who preyed on his first wife when she was 19 and he was 45? I'm sure he wrote similar letters to her, too. But then, I guess after she gave up her budding opera career and her own family to be with him and support his goals, he got a little tired of her after 25 years and started writing letters to the next one, 24 years his junior. At least that one was an adult woman. She should have known better, so I guess they deserved each other. Words are cheap, even beautiful words. But even these words, if you listen closely, give clues to his motivation, his insecure self-centeredness, his condescension, his assumption of his right to be dominant. What some people consider romantic just boggles the mind.
@Machuell_DuLac
@Machuell_DuLac Год назад
@@anahata2009 I got some of those vibes as well from this letter, but it's unwise to make assumptions without enough data.
@irmar
@irmar Год назад
@@anahata2009 She stayed with him, although he was an alcoholic, until his death. There are some women who like that sort of man (not me)
@monave2938
@monave2938 Год назад
All this may be true. Honestly I know nothing of the man except he is the most brilliant, gifted writer I’ve experienced. Who cares if he is not a flawless human as he himself has pointed out! Why be so angry at a dead man?
@alxf2411
@alxf2411 28 дней назад
It's still one of the finest letters, uf not words ever written
@KeziahC384
@KeziahC384 6 лет назад
I have to choose a 2 minute poem to memorise for a Voice assessment for uni. I wanna do this one, who cares that it goes on for 12 minutes, its so good
@Jeje-nd9mk
@Jeje-nd9mk 7 лет назад
Well... HE is a true and great actor.
@Artsybyzo
@Artsybyzo 8 лет назад
omg... what's that fluttering in my tummy? ?? BUTTERFLYS
@falfield
@falfield 3 года назад
Why are nearly all the commenters fawning over Tom Hiddlesdon's voice. Good though it is, he'd have had nothing to say were it not for the genius of writing that is Gerald Durrell.
@AmyNikitaMusicMusicalsMovies
@AmyNikitaMusicMusicalsMovies 8 лет назад
Oh. My. Word. He is just...so perfect
@ankiking
@ankiking Год назад
If you get a letter like this or someone tells you they are jealous because they love you - run! Jealousy is always because the person themselves are likely to cheat, but they transfer it to the other person in the ugliest of ways. If you don’t have trust, you don’t have much of value in a relationship. All the other beauty in the letter got cancelled for me as soon as that line came up. 😢
@d.h.3602
@d.h.3602 4 года назад
Tom has such a touching voice🎙❤ ...and if you "see him acting", during reading Letters for the audience around of him, is the best at all. I love this sooo much. I hope I'm able to see him live on stage someday. I can listen to him for hours 🎙🎶❤😘😏 #TomHiddleston
@jimfling2128
@jimfling2128 Год назад
Who knew that Gerald wrote so poetically. Amazing that his writing overshadowed his self proclaimed brother. Of all the Darrrell's he was the wild child who became the most acclaimed and successful of the 4 children.
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