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Stiffner and Jim (Thirdly, Bill) by Henry Lawson (1867-1922) http://www.telelib.com/authors/L/LawsonHenry/prose/billyboils_1/stiffnerjimbill.html Duration: 17:00 https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/cb021_stiffnerandjimthirdlybill_sote_128kb.mp3 Please note that the OCR has mistakenly scanned the wo...

Here's Chapter 17. Hope the recording is suitable.

https://librivox.org/uploads/dlolso21/loveslaves_17_brengle_128kb.mp3


Chris

Should it interest anyone, here’s is the poem of Australian poet Henry Lawson, who served time banged up in Sydney’s Darlinghurst Gaol as mentioned in the introduction to this weekly poem. Its title “One-Hundred-And-Three” was Lawson prisoner number at the time. https://archive.org/details/selectedp...

Seems they recently (2014) found a copy of a Sappho poem that had been lost since antiquity.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brothers_Poem

Guess we’ll have to wait decades before it can be recorded though, unless someone can read the Aeolic straight from the scan of the papyrus.


Chris

I dream of a world where a chicken can cross the road without having its motives questioned.

I seem to recall hearing that "Whispering Ted" Lowe, the BBC's lead commentator on the snooker programme "Pot Black", had it written into his contract that he be supplied with a glass of champagne throughout the evening to ensure that his voice maintained its velvety smoothness. Here in Australia, w...

the MC "manually" moves the thread to Completed Projects when it’s done. Tricia is of course too modest. Librivox MCs are considered the rootinest, tootinest thread-wranglers north, south, east or west of the Pecos. I may never ever actually hear one of them refer to a recalcitrant thread as “Ooooo...

I’ve noticed that while the 1902 novel “Brewster’s Millions” has been read as a solo book recording several times, the 1906 play version doesn’t seemed to have been done in DR form yet at LV.

Chris

Just checking in to say I’m still on the job with this project.

Chris

ej400 wrote: ↑

June 10th, 2019, 8:18 am

... if only I were Aussie.

A lament heard across the planet and the centuries.

When I was a tiny little kid, I wanted to be Davy Crockett, "King of the Wild Frontier".

Chris

I had hoped that my voice would be back in good nick again by this morning, but it's still crook.

So rather than hold up the works, could you please re-open the role for someone else?

Chris

OK. Not a word, but a phrase: “At this point in time” drives me nuts! It gives me a mental image of some guy in front of a giant sized map of the stars, running back and forth with a pointer, stating: “Not At THAT point in time, (running over to a different area of the map,) “But at THIS point in t...

Here is something that works for me, if you don’t mind saying it like an Aussie.
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In my everyday speech, I pronounce “peculiar” as “pe-KYULE-yah”.

Said this way, it is far easier to add the “-ly” on the end.

Thus “pe-KYULE-yah-lee”.


Chris

déjà-vu amnesia: the subtle feeling that you’ve forgotten it before.

Hi Elsie, Might be worth adding a note to your first post that this play is not PD for people in Life+70 countries... I was about to claim when I realised :( Foon, Thanks for catching that, note added. David O 1913 publication date, so I guess that makes it okay for me here in Australia. Cheers, Ch...