[COMPLETE] The Rescue by Joseph Conrad - dc

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 3rd, 2021, 6:22 am

Hello Peter,

please check section 5 at about 1:40 where you repeated this sentence: "Even the careless disposition of the young ex-officer of an opium-clipper was affected by the ominous aspect of the hour.""

The rest of section 5 and section 6 are ok.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 3rd, 2021, 10:15 pm

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑October 3rd, 2021, 6:22 am Hello Peter,

please check section 5 at about 1:40 where you repeated this sentence: "Even the careless disposition of the young ex-officer of an opium-clipper was affected by the ominous aspect of the hour.""

The rest of section 5 and section 6 are ok.

Great pickup. Thank you!

I have edited section 05 and have uploaded the new version, which now runs 21:54 ((https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_05_conrad_128kb.mp3).

Please do spot check on new file around that 1:40 mark you identified.

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 3rd, 2021, 11:41 pm

Thank you! PL is now ok.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 4th, 2021, 12:28 am

But wait, there's more...

I have uploaded:
Section 07: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_07_conrad_128kb.mp3 (11:52)
Section 08: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_08_conrad_128kb.mp3 (16:27)
Section 09: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_09_conrad_128kb.mp3 (15:17)

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 5th, 2021, 12:32 am

I have uploaded section 10: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_10_conrad_128kb.mp3 (17:35)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 5th, 2021, 10:11 am

Sections 7-9 are ok

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 6th, 2021, 12:24 am

I have uploaded section 11: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_11_conrad_128kb.mp3 (20:22)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 6th, 2021, 10:22 am

Sections 10 and 11 are fine.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 7th, 2021, 1:05 am

I have uploaded:
Section 12: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_12_conrad_128kb.mp3 (8:26)
Section 13: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_13_conrad_128kb.mp3 (13:09)
Section 14: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_14_conrad_128kb.mp3 (7:25)
Section 15: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_15_conrad_128kb.mp3 (6:33)
Section 16: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_16_conrad_128kb.mp3 (15:14)

Must say it puzzles me how all these 'native' peoples seem to speak English (which is how they appear to communicate with Tom Lingard). But then, it always puzzlef me how the women in John Ford's westerns had hair styles like contemporary Los Angeles housewives. Perhaps best not to inquire into these things too closely? Not sure...

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 7th, 2021, 9:44 am

I didn’t catch these downloads before my walk today.
Perhaps the locals picked up just enough English to be able to work. There’s a great incentive to learn a language when your livelihood depends on it. What struck me when I lived in Indonesia was how little English is spoken nowadays by government and NGO staff. And Dutch was disappeared with a vengeance after independence.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 8th, 2021, 12:46 am

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑October 7th, 2021, 9:44 am I didn’t catch these downloads before my walk today.
Perhaps the locals picked up just enough English to be able to work. There’s a great incentive to learn a language when your livelihood depends on it. What struck me when I lived in Indonesia was how little English is spoken nowadays by government and NGO staff. And Dutch was disappeared with a vengeance after independence.

Interesting! I was forgetting that of course you have first hand knowledge of such things — very much unlike myself.

I have uploaded:
Section 17: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_17_conrad_128kb.mp3 (12:08)
Section 18: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_18_conrad_128kb.mp3 (also 12:08)

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 9th, 2021, 8:13 am

PL of sections 12-18 is ok.

There were a couple of passages which made me think that Captain Lingard speaks the local language.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 10th, 2021, 12:02 am

Sunrise2020 wrote: ↑October 9th, 2021, 8:13 am There were a couple of passages which made me think that Captain Lingard speaks the local language.

Yes, I agree. Like, for example, when Lingard says "You should not have come here, O Hassim", or when he explains his absence by saying "There was too much trouble in my eyes". This way of speaking is surely local in some sense.

I have uploaded:
Section 19: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_19_conrad_128kb.mp3 (19:41)
Section 20: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_20_conrad_128kb.mp3 (14:33)

There is an interesting suggestion in the Wikipedia article about this novel to the effect that one really should read it in the context of two novels Conrad had written previously in which Tom Lingard figures prominently. I hope we'll get to those in time (even if not, alas, in the 'right' chronological order now).

Sunrise2020 · Post by **Sunrise2020** » October 10th, 2021, 11:12 am

PL of sections 19 and 20 is ok.

TheBanjo · Post by **TheBanjo** » October 11th, 2021, 12:08 am

I have uploaded:
Section 21: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_21_conrad_128kb.mp3 (10:37)
Section 22: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/rescue_22_conrad_128kb.mp3 (39:25)

As it happens, these sections contain some explicit references to Tom's speaking to some characters in Malay at times. Hardly a major issue in the novel as a whole, but an intriguing little sidelight.