[COMPLETE] The Eyes of The World by Harold Bell Wright - kd

[y2kdaddio]

The Eyes Of The World by Harold Bell Wright (1872 - 1944) .

The Eyes of the World was the Best Selling Book for 1914 according to Publisher's Weekly. The novel explores what Harold Bell Wright views as the false world of artists, writers, critics, and their wealthy patrons. Two of the main characters are the famous author, Conrad LaGrange and Aaron King, an aspiring artist. LaGrange regretfully describes his writings as “filthy stories in good English” and feels he has sold his soul to become successful. While in California, recovering from a physical breakdown, he befriends Aaron King whose mother he knew when he was a boy. Lagrange serves as counselor to the young man, for he knows the pitfalls of success from his own experience. (Summary by Tom Weiss)

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[KiltedDragon]

All set to go.

[y2kdaddio]

Sections 1 & 2 uploaded

[mim@can]

I am here for the listening

[y2kdaddio]

Section 3 uploaded

[mim@can]

Section 1 PL OK

[y2kdaddio]

Section 4 uploaded

[mim@can]

Sections 2 uploaded

@ 7:46 On the rounded shoulders and steep flanks of the foothills that form the sides of the canyon, the barley fields looked down upon the meadows; and, now and then, in the whirling landscape winding side canyons--beautiful with live-oak and laurel, with greasewood and sage--led the eye away[[[[ toward the pine-fringed ridges of the Galenas ]]]while above, the higher snow-clad peaks and domes of the San Bernardinos still shone coldly against the blue.

Omitted bit

@ 14:37  The young man, in passing, glanced down; and the woman, who had taken the chair next to the [[ aisle,]] looked up full into his face.

I hear table

@ 21:05 Fully six feet in height, the observer was so lean that he suggested the unpleasant [[appearance ]] of a living skeleton.

I hear experience

@ 21:34 He was [[ smoking ]] a straight, much-used brier pipe. At his feet, lay a beautiful Irish Setter dog.

I hear stroking

@21:58 In [[ answer ]] to the stranger's inquiry, with a curt sentence and a nod of his head he directed him to a hotel--two blocks away.

I hear order

[y2kdaddio]

Section 2 corrected and uploaded

[mim@can]

Section 3 uploaded

Section 3

@ 11:15 Conrad Lagrange spoke sadly; "And to think that there are,--in this city of [[ ten ]] thousand,--probably, nine thousand nine hundred and ninety people who never see it."

I hear two

@ 14:57 I am an instigator of degrading [[ immorality ]] and unmentionable crimes. Work! No, young man, I don't work. Just now, I'm doing penance in this damned town. My rotten [[ imaginings ]] have proven too much--even for me--and the doctors sent me West to recuperate,"

I hear immortality and imagings
http://www.howjsay.com/index.php?word=imaginings&submit=Submit
@ 18:56 Get in with the right people; use your family name and [[ your distinguished ancestors; pull a few judicious advertising wires; ]] do a few artistic stunts; get yourself into the papers long and often, no matter how; make yourself a fad; become a pet of the social [[ autocrats ]] --and your fame is assured.

Omitted part and used aristocrats instead of autocrats

@ 19:33 "To portray human nature is legitimate work for an artist, yes"--agreed the [[ novelist]]--"but he must portray human nature plus.

I hear artist

@32:39 Some powerful [[ force, ]] underlying his whimsical words, gripped the artist's mind--compelling him to search for hidden meanings in the novelist's fanciful suggestions.

I hear voice

@ 33:52  I can't get over the [[ impression ]] that I ought to know her--that I have met and known her somewhere years ago.

I hear expression

[mim@can]

Section 4 uploaded

PL OK

[y2kdaddio]

Section 3 corrected and uploaded

[mim@can]

Sections 2 uploaded

@ 7:46 On the rounded shoulders and steep flanks of the foothills that form the sides of the canyon, the barley fields looked down upon the meadows; and, now and then, in the whirling landscape winding side canyons--beautiful with live-oak and laurel, with greasewood and sage--led the eye away[[[[ toward the pine-fringed ridges of the Galenas ]]]while above, the higher snow-clad peaks and domes of the San Bernardinos still shone coldly against the blue.

Omitted bit

Check out pine-fringed ridges

[mim@can]

Section 3 uploaded

Section 3



@ 14:57 I am an instigator of degrading [[ immorality ]] and unmentionable crimes. Work! No, young man, I don't work. Just now, I'm doing penance in this damned town. My rotten [[ imaginings ]] have proven too much--even for me--and the doctors sent me West to recuperate,"

I hear immortality

Missed the immorality one here?

[y2kdaddio]

Try saying "pine fringed ridges" real fast, 5 times in a row. Your tang gets tongled....