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I loved this line:

"A generation that allows itself to be even interested in such types as the "strong," efficient craftsmen of modern industry and finance is a generation that can well afford a few moral shocks at the hands of Dostoievsky's "degenerates.""

I think I'll do Poe next weekend. I'm really glad that my appreciation of this book has if anything grown through reading it, to me Powys manages to see important things in each writer but I also am impressed by Powys, he's extravagant but it doesn't obscure the writer he is talking about.

Wasn't it? Really interesting chapter. Powys loves Dostoievsky. Only two more writers to go and a short conclusion.

Sorry, I left in two repeating sections. Here's the new one

Chapter 15 Dostoievsky

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Time: 30:56

Chapter 15 Dostoievsky

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Time: 31:13

Chapter 14 Walter Pater

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Time 17:34

Thanks Grant, Powys early novels are very Hardy influenced and he actually got to meet him. So that one was probably pretty personal. The early novels are also out of copyright so if I wasn't put off by how long I'd taken to do this it could be worth doing one of those, they're also shorter than his...

New chapter 13 Thomas Hardy

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Time 17:20

Chapter 13 Thomas Hardy

Time 17:20

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Chapter 12 Nietzsche

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Time: 23:26

I think the bing sound threw us off, I recorded the replacement section and then when it played back I noticed the duplication. so I cut out the new section. Yeah, there should be a warning on collections of Keats poems, I'm not sure I want to risk reading his odes at the moment, I'd quite like to r...

Again, this time with no beep

Chapter 11 Keats

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Time 20:20

Chapter 11 Keats

https://librivox.org/uploads/alg1001/visions_12_powys_128kb.mp3

Time: 20:28

Thanks for the proof listen. I really liked the Shelley chapter, I think Powys does capture something essential about each writer while being his idiosyncratic self and Shelley is one that a lot of people miss, I'm also quite impressed with the diversity of writers he really delights in. I think Goe...

Chapter 10 Shelley:
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Time: 19:07