Thanks! Chapters 6 & 7 are corrected and I've also uploaded Chapter 8, ready for PL. It's short, but Ch. 9 is another long one, so will be a while coming.
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_08_couperus.mp3
[COMPLETE] Dr. Adriaan by Louis Couperus -ans
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6, 7 are spot PL OK. Chapter 8 is PL OK.
Chapter 9, ready for PL!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_09_couperus.mp3 - 33:47
A couple of things on this chapter.
At around 1:10 it says that Constance had seen Adolphine 'once and again'. After some indecision, I interpreted this as meaning 'once in while' (or as 'once at the Hague' and 'once at Baarn'). I'm still not sure if I have read this correctly - if I have, 'once and again' is not an expression I'm familiar with.
Just for information, the Marietje that is coming to stay is Adolphine's eldest daughter (not the Marietje who is already there, who is Adele/Gerrit's eldest). This Marietje has not had much of a part up to now, but back in the first book, when Adolphine's three boys were spreading rumours about Addie's parentage, Marietje was the one who was nice to him and refused to believe what they were saying. We'll see if that has any significance.... I really don't remember.
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_09_couperus.mp3 - 33:47
A couple of things on this chapter.
At around 1:10 it says that Constance had seen Adolphine 'once and again'. After some indecision, I interpreted this as meaning 'once in while' (or as 'once at the Hague' and 'once at Baarn'). I'm still not sure if I have read this correctly - if I have, 'once and again' is not an expression I'm familiar with.
Just for information, the Marietje that is coming to stay is Adolphine's eldest daughter (not the Marietje who is already there, who is Adele/Gerrit's eldest). This Marietje has not had much of a part up to now, but back in the first book, when Adolphine's three boys were spreading rumours about Addie's parentage, Marietje was the one who was nice to him and refused to believe what they were saying. We'll see if that has any significance.... I really don't remember.
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Here's what I found without doing a deep dive. I think the ever-so-slightly clashing Collins definitions are what you're after:
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/once-and-again
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/once%20and%20again
Section 9 is PL OK.
The mention of Aunt Lot, again, makes me think that maybe Couperus couldn't quite keep everybody straight after all. I was trying to be charitable before! But if you're struggling to untangle it, it makes me feel a bit better because I have lost most sense of the second and third generations in this enormous family!
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/once-and-again
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/once%20and%20again
Section 9 is PL OK.
The mention of Aunt Lot, again, makes me think that maybe Couperus couldn't quite keep everybody straight after all. I was trying to be charitable before! But if you're struggling to untangle it, it makes me feel a bit better because I have lost most sense of the second and third generations in this enormous family!
Chapter 10, Ready for PL!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_10_couperus.mp3 - 26:47
So 'once and again' is an idiom - I don't think I have heard it before. I guess it is a bit like 'now and again', so I eventually got it to sound right.
I have to keep track to remember which voices to use! For now, I think we just have to keep the folks living at Driebergen in mind, who are (as at Chapter 9!).
- Constance and Van der Welcke, and Addie and Mathilde and their two children Contant (Stan) and Henriette (Jetje)
- Adeline and her children: Marietje (22), Adeletje (21), Alex (20) (all gloomy because they saw their fathers' dead body), Guy (19) & Gerdy (18) (Cheerful because they don't remember), Constant (17) (away at boarding school), Piet and Jan, and Klaasje (12).
- Grandmama and Emilie (Bertha's daughter, whose brother was murdered in Paris by Emilie's ex-husband)
Just the 18 of them!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_10_couperus.mp3 - 26:47
So 'once and again' is an idiom - I don't think I have heard it before. I guess it is a bit like 'now and again', so I eventually got it to sound right.
I have to keep track to remember which voices to use! For now, I think we just have to keep the folks living at Driebergen in mind, who are (as at Chapter 9!).
- Constance and Van der Welcke, and Addie and Mathilde and their two children Contant (Stan) and Henriette (Jetje)
- Adeline and her children: Marietje (22), Adeletje (21), Alex (20) (all gloomy because they saw their fathers' dead body), Guy (19) & Gerdy (18) (Cheerful because they don't remember), Constant (17) (away at boarding school), Piet and Jan, and Klaasje (12).
- Grandmama and Emilie (Bertha's daughter, whose brother was murdered in Paris by Emilie's ex-husband)
Just the 18 of them!
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Chapter 10 is PL OK.
I know you have to keep track of these, and your notes must be pages and pages by now. It's going to feel rather cathartic recycling them at the end of the quartet!
I know you have to keep track of these, and your notes must be pages and pages by now. It's going to feel rather cathartic recycling them at the end of the quartet!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_11_couperus.mp3 - 15:09
Thanks! Chapter 11 ready for PL! I love Uncle Ernst's reaction to the house in this chapter...
Thanks! Chapter 11 ready for PL! I love Uncle Ernst's reaction to the house in this chapter...
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One note for chapter 11:
2.20, omission, top third p 123
...past sufferings of small people [and past sentiments.]
I don't like to say it, but things have gone too well (relatively) for too long so far. By the end of this book there are going to be some bigger problems. I have a couple of guesses, but I'll keep it quiet for now!
2.20, omission, top third p 123
...past sufferings of small people [and past sentiments.]
I don't like to say it, but things have gone too well (relatively) for too long so far. By the end of this book there are going to be some bigger problems. I have a couple of guesses, but I'll keep it quiet for now!
Chapter 11 corrected and ready for spot PL, and Chapter 12 ready for PL!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_12_couperus.mp3 - 29:02
Its true that nothing much has happened yet. I guess he has had to spend time reintroducing the characters and the setting. But the plot starts to thicken now...
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_12_couperus.mp3 - 29:02
Its true that nothing much has happened yet. I guess he has had to spend time reintroducing the characters and the setting. But the plot starts to thicken now...
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Chapter 11 is spot PL OK.
Notes for chapter 12:
10.56, top third p 135, omission
...or inexplicably, whereas now!…[Whereas now!]...Locking themselves up...
26.26, omission, bottom half p 142
You can’t lift them, [you can’t lift them]
28.36, omission, p 143 second para
...relaxed on the sofa-cushions. [Then she closed the door again and went downstairs.] She was no longer frightened...
I am not trying to jinx things by saying this, but you're really on a roll! Years to write, years to translate, years to wait to be scanned, and now suddenly you're powering through book four in the quartet! Go Phil!
Notes for chapter 12:
10.56, top third p 135, omission
...or inexplicably, whereas now!…[Whereas now!]...Locking themselves up...
26.26, omission, bottom half p 142
You can’t lift them, [you can’t lift them]
28.36, omission, p 143 second para
...relaxed on the sofa-cushions. [Then she closed the door again and went downstairs.] She was no longer frightened...
I am not trying to jinx things by saying this, but you're really on a roll! Years to write, years to translate, years to wait to be scanned, and now suddenly you're powering through book four in the quartet! Go Phil!
Thanks for the notes on Ch. 12 and for the encouragement! All those omissions should be in the original recording, but as you know I am in Hong Kong, so I will do those corrections when I get back home. Meanwhile, three more chapters ready for PL. I will also need to do the final sound processing on these when I get back.
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_13_couperus.mp3 - 22:57
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_14_couperus.mp3 - 16:34
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_15_couperus.mp3 - 10:27
Chapter 14 is the first Chapter of Part 2 in the Dutch text, so I guess that is the half-way point in the book. And Paul and Brauws are back, so that is pretty much everyone accounted for! Let's see what he does with them...
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_13_couperus.mp3 - 22:57
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_14_couperus.mp3 - 16:34
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_15_couperus.mp3 - 10:27
Chapter 14 is the first Chapter of Part 2 in the Dutch text, so I guess that is the half-way point in the book. And Paul and Brauws are back, so that is pretty much everyone accounted for! Let's see what he does with them...
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Notes for 13, 14 and 15 below. Not just Paul and Brauws are in Driebergen, but the ghost, too!
Chapter 13
6.01, repetition, mid-page p 147
“Gerdy, [Gerdy,] you’re just like a naughty child.
19.02, omission, bottom third p 154
...[“one gets used,] one gets used to everything…
+ tell me what other processing you do if I need to check anything!
Chapter 14
Checker is saying the background noise is great buuuut the volume is too low at 85.6 – I know last time the higher volume was okay but I’m assuming the lower volume is something that will get bumped up in the processing stages.
3.56, repetition, bottom p 159
[“Not mean] Not mean all I say!”
Chapter 15
2.08-2.10, omission, top p 168
“I so [well] remember this weather…
& whatever tweaking you need to do with the sound!
Chapter 13
6.01, repetition, mid-page p 147
“Gerdy, [Gerdy,] you’re just like a naughty child.
19.02, omission, bottom third p 154
...[“one gets used,] one gets used to everything…
+ tell me what other processing you do if I need to check anything!
Chapter 14
Checker is saying the background noise is great buuuut the volume is too low at 85.6 – I know last time the higher volume was okay but I’m assuming the lower volume is something that will get bumped up in the processing stages.
3.56, repetition, bottom p 159
[“Not mean] Not mean all I say!”
Chapter 15
2.08-2.10, omission, top p 168
“I so [well] remember this weather…
& whatever tweaking you need to do with the sound!
Chapters 12,13,14,15 all corrected and reuploaded. I have made some changes to the sound, but nothing you need to check - if the corrections sound okay, the rest will sound the same. The volume issue of Ch. 14 was due to an additional (silent) track which I've deleted.
And Chapter 16 ready for PL!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_16_couperus.mp3 - 16:57
Back to recording. I was hoping to finish this before Christmas, but perhaps not now. We'll see!
And Chapter 16 ready for PL!
https://librivox.org/uploads/annise/adriaan_16_couperus.mp3 - 16:57
Back to recording. I was hoping to finish this before Christmas, but perhaps not now. We'll see!
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Sections 12, 13, 14 and 15 are spot PL OK. 16 is PL OK.
You make me nervous when you say things like 'nothing you need to check'. 90% of the time you're probably right, but the other 10% means some small silly thing causes a logjam when it's being catalogued. I don't mean you personally, I mean that every extra stage is just another opportunity for error (human, machine or unspecified gremlin!) to slip in.eggs4ears wrote: ↑December 11th, 2022, 3:17 am Chapters 12,13,14,15 all corrected and reuploaded. I have made some changes to the sound, but nothing you need to check - if the corrections sound okay, the rest will sound the same. The volume issue of Ch. 14 was due to an additional (silent) track which I've deleted.
Thanks! Yes, I see what you mean! I just meant that I had only changed the sound, not the content, so there was no need to listen again.
Newgatenovelist wrote: ↑December 11th, 2022, 8:25 am You make me nervous when you say things like 'nothing you need to check'. 90% of the time you're probably right, but the other 10% means some small silly thing causes a logjam when it's being catalogued. I don't mean you personally, I mean that every extra stage is just another opportunity for error (human, machine or unspecified gremlin!) to slip in.