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[Shinshiro Rally (新城ラリー)] The race was over. Aki missed a prize. He is a famous driver. Because he has the megaenterprize. All his men had a wet face. A man cries in this situation. Although it was a tough race, Aki's run was near perfection. And night falls. "I burned completely," Aki laughes and t...

Oh, dear, oh, dear, oh, dear! His men were in fear. It was July 6th. A black toad jumped out from P.M. Abe's mouth. Nay, it wasn't a toad. He vomited blood a lot. Oh, my lord, His heart is still hot. But he can't walk any more. All work, no sleep, and was down in the floor. Run and run and run and r...

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I get here on my feet.
This Mount Se is the border.
Soon we can meet.
Your country is there, my dear.

[Kote E (鏝絵, or こてえ)]　 Kote E means Kote Pictures. Kote (鏝) means a Plasterer Trowel. A Kote E is a Japanese fresco painting. A Kote E's father is a painting and its mother is a carving, or vice versa. Because Kote E's are 3D works. (Are you sure? A Kote E is differ from a Western fresco painting in...

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Here, on the shores, passers tie up their elegies on the pine branches,
Hoping they wouldn't die on their journeies.
Who did begin the customary act in the past?
How long does this last?

[Mossie (モッシー)] I was a lonesome kid. My favorite book was a picture book. (I had a few books at that time.) I liked to think that which is my most favorite lake of Fuji Five Lakes. The ranking often changed. But I liked Lake Sai very much. The picture book said that all of the lakes are connected b...

Oh, great!

Thank you very much, aleithia-san.

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Here, rippling land, was a Tenno.
The Tenno lost his sound mind.
His people said to him, "No."
I'm sad his ruined capital I find.

[The Mystery of Utsuro-bune (うつろ舟伝説)] "Open an optical channel over gravity waves! (It's a ping‐pong transmission system.)" (negotiating...) (connecting...) "Hello, Utsuro-buneians!" "Hallo, Professor (教授)." Tanaka Kazuo (田中 嘉津夫), Emeritus Professor (名誉教授) of Optical Information Engineering at Gifu ...

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Was I an old mandarin at that time?
Did I reincarnate into this time?
Why am I sad
In front of the ruined palace by the shores, once we had?

mightyfelix-san, thanks for your help!
(I told a lie again...)

Hi, Can you tell me the name of the scholar, please? I'm sorry. I don't know any real name of LibriVoxers. By the way, I know the story. Perhaps, I read it in 'In Memorial' yearly thread. The thread is a collection of both short stories of and thanks' to souls in memories. Admins might know his real...

Oh, that's a pity. It's very hard to get chinese clearly public domain texts. Many of them have no evidences. (In many cases, we can't prove it's in public domain.) So, recording in Chinese is not booming now. Once, there was a famous and gifted Chinese scholar in LibriVox. He left many audiobooks i...

Hi,

I'm a Japanese gentleman, Daddy-Short-Legs. My request is 水滸伝(百二十回本), 韓昌黎文集, and 陶淵明全集; if you have much time to kill and the public domain texts. The complete work of Tao Yuanming is the lightest load of them. (Most of his works have lost.)

[Shrine Carpenter (miya-daiku, みやだいく, or 宮大工)] Temples and shrines require carpenters for orthodox specialities. A miya-daiku is a temple and shrine carpenter. 100 or so miya-daiku's remain in Japan now. They have accepted their responsibilities. They live here and there. So, when a big project take...