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"Bring on the wrath!":

Section: 17 - Book 11, part 2
URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_17_noyes.mp3
Length: 22:41

As all of England prepares for the arrival of Spain, Drake sails out to meet them: Section: 16 - Book 11, part 1 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_16_noyes.mp3 Length: 23:50 Ah! the days before radio! Light that many bonfires today, the Environmental Watchdogs'll have your scal...

Nobody expects the Spanish Armada: Section: 15 - Book 10, part 2 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_15_noyes.mp3 Length: 20:30 OTOH, I always expect the Polar Express; good luck with that tunnel. {P.S. I've posted, at long last, to L&E, but I'm thinking how lucky I was with ...

Good Morning Oh, right! How's your summer shaping up? More sections added :D Got 'em, thanks. And aren't I lucky you caught the MW while the servers felt like serving. Now that there's no further way I can think of to butcher, mangle or convolute this project, I'll get on over to L&E & see ...

For all the anachronism, what does "Non sufficit / Orbis" remind me of: Section: 14 - Book 10, part 1 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_14_noyes.mp3 Length: 22:32 Q: How many XXXX fans does it take to change a lightbulb? A: Only one, but all the rest will say the orig...

Blood & gore alert: Section: 13 - Book 9 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_13_noyes.mp3 Length: 31:35 Drake's sacking of St. Domingo would make for [imo] interesting comparison between historical accounts. Here's a link to one example. Noyes went [imo] a wee bit OTT, but it...

A few links-to-resources: Microphones, "proximity effect" & "variable-pattern capsules". Yet another professional take on "the basics" of compression. Immediately followed by Wikipedia's "Audio system measurements" entry, section "Measurable performan...

I always cry at weddings: Section: 12 - Book 8 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_12_noyes.mp3 Length: 24:46 Makes me wonder, if they didn't immediately follow a wedding bit, would I still think these lines were my favorite out of "Drake": Between the sleeping graves, ...

The shortest section since the Prologue, and it *felt* short: Section: 11 - Book 7 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_11_noyes.mp3 Length: 19:09 Okay, so, re-working the summary some more, with a mind to post, at long last, to Listeners & Editors. Along the way, I finally go...

Imagine my surprise finding, in a poem like this, a hypothetical voyage to Saturn:

Section: 10 - Book 6
URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_10_noyes.mp3
Length: 24:31

{yes, as in the planet, honest}

"Sybil of months"; sibilance; who can say:

Section: November - Read by CAM
URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/dl/november_clare_cam.mp3
Length: 01:23

Mine got all whistly of a sudden.

Out of danger's way, Our Hero gets on with the plundering:

Section: 09 - Book 5
URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_09_noyes.mp3
Length: 21:40

And Noyes even turns his hand to some light comedy!

'Scuze me for grabbing at these excerpts in isolation: You could try having something tactile in your hand for your fingers to play with, which might help keep the rest of you stationary. Keeping my right hand poised for pagination keeps the easy part out of trouble; for the left, I put a big, fluff...

Impatient at the very elements, I recorded despite the [intermittent] rattling of the downspout: Section: 08 - Book 4, part 2 URL: http://upload.librivox.org/share/uploads/arb/drake_08_noyes.mp3 Length: 24:14 In result, there were a couple of words I had to re-record during the editing phase, which ...

Somewhere, my brother is laughing: Cyn, are you super quick at typing or does it take you ages to reply to these? Not only am I not "super quick", I'm sometimes only typing with one hand, and I always have to watch the keyboard; I guess this is another (like using tons of quote-boxes) &quo...