[Complete]The Complete Works of Brann, the Iconoclast, Volume 1 - lt

[williamjones]

Upon reading your comments this morning, Lynne, and agreeing with everything you said, then reading Bill's PL note again, I see that I made a mistake. Last night I listened and presumed the only difference was my pronouncing pre instead of per-rogative. I listened again this morning and heard a completely different word, prejorative. So I changed it and uploaded the corrected file. Bill was correct, I was wrong. Sorry about that.

Michele, when I make slips like that, my wife calls it "Doing a Bill".
I am so glad to have an experienced hand like yours backing me up. Thanks!

[msfry]

PL Notes Chapter 24

Outro, you say Chapter 4, should be 24. All else is ok.

Thanks for those kind words. I keep pondering why/how I substituted the word "pejorative" for "prerogative", having I doubt ever once used that word in my entire life, and then not seeing or hearing it even when you pointed it out. It's like an "auto-fill" feature gone wrong in my brain.

Well, at least I know what to call it now. . . . . "doing a Bill".

[williamjones]

Uploaded corrected Chapter 24 - The Science of Kissing

no change in timing.

[msfry]

Chapter 24 is PL OK.

That Brann is so full of himself . . . . . nidificates on the osculatory apparatus? . . . . . hygiologic germs?
But you pronounced them all correctly . . . I think.

[VoiceofLandis]

Would love to take Ch.32. Talmage The Turgid. Looks like a very fun read.

Let me know if I can claim it!

Thanks.

[williamjones]

Would love to take Ch.32. Talmage The Turgid. Looks like a very fun read.

Let me know if I can claim it!

Thanks.

It's yours, Landis.
I'll put it in the MW in a few moments.

I think the Talmage referred to in the title was the big Mormon guy.
I guess we'll find out when we listen to your recitation.

[jfgallagher]

Here is my rendition of Chapter 34, "There's One Comes After"

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_34_brann_128kb.mp3
recording time 09:09

This is powerful stuff and I wish that I could capture it in all of it's glory!

Thanks.

Jim G.

[williamjones]

Here is my rendition of Chapter 34, "There's One Comes After"

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_34_brann_128kb.mp3
recording time 09:09

This is powerful stuff and I wish that I could capture it in all of it's glory!

Thanks.

Jim G.

Brann is exercising his doom-and-gloom literary chops in this chapter. It is a very, very close parallel of Goethe's poem, "Der Erlkönig".

PL Notes
00:23 - chapter number omitted at end of disclaimer and before chapter title
That's it. That's the only formal faux pas.

Humble Opinion coming up!!
The printed source text is littered with quote marks of Direct Discourse even though there is only one main speaker. Inserting the words "Quote ... Unquote" on every occasion is unnecessary and interrupts the flow of your wonderful recitation.

The use of "Quote ... Unquote" Probably makes the best sense when indicating that the enclosed words are from an external source. You may delete those "Quote ... Unquote"s when you correct the missing Chapter Number, or, you can let them stand as they are -- your prerogative as the reader.

Great job, Jim. Please consider taking on more sections.

[jfgallagher]

Here is my rendition of Chapter 34, "There's One Comes After"

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_34_brann_128kb.mp3
recording time 09:09

This is powerful stuff and I wish that I could capture it in all of it's glory!

Thanks.

Jim G.

Brann is exercising his doom-and-gloom literary chops in this chapter. It is a very, very close parallel of Goethe's poem, "Der Erlkönig".

PL Notes
00:23 - chapter number omitted at end of disclaimer and before chapter title
That's it. That's the only formal faux pas.

Humble Opinion coming up!!
The printed source text is littered with quote marks of Direct Discourse even though there is only one main speaker. Inserting the words "Quote ... Unquote" on every occasion is unnecessary and interrupts the flow of your wonderful recitation.

The use of "Quote ... Unquote" Probably makes the best sense when indicating that the enclosed words are from an external source. You may delete those "Quote ... Unquote"s when you correct the missing Chapter Number, or, you can let them stand as they are -- your prerogative as the reader.

Great job, Jim. Please consider taking on more sections.

I agree with your discussion of quote marks. It really chops this one up. The only quotes attributed to another person are the two women and even there is it pretty darned clear.

I will try to dress this up in a second attempt, though it may be a day or two before I get it done.

Thanks for your review.

Jim G.

[svonb002]

Here is section 35.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_35_brann_128kb.mp3 4:57 min

[williamjones]

Here is section 35.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_35_brann_128kb.mp3 4:57 min

Stefan, this is a very deliberate and accurate reading of this short chapter.
KUDOS! No PL notes needed. It is PL OK!
Brann refers to Robert G. Ingersoll several times in this first volume. Whereas Brann was well known for his print media rhetoric, Ingersoll was an attorney and sought after for speeches and orations, the verbal medium. I think both Brann and Ingersoll would have had spiteful venom issuing from their lips over the cowardly inaction of the train passengers.

I hope you'll consider doing another chapter... and don't be reluctant to "ham it up" a bit.
Brann was fiery tempered guy.
Thanks!

[msfry]

Chapter 23 is uploaded.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_23_brann_128kb.mp3 16:37

Those foreign language poems were . . . . . Ein königlicher Schmerz!!!!!!!!!

[williamjones]

Chapter 23 is uploaded.

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_23_brann_128kb.mp3 16:37

Those foreign language poems were . . . . . Ein königlicher Schmerz!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, Michele.
After hearing this piece, I have to believe that just before he wrote it, he had returned from a Time Travel in which he visited a "Mensa Vocabulary night". Where did he pick up all these odd words!?!?!?
He continues to show his male chauvinism by repeating and repeating the need to protect young girls from earthy reality.

This was not an easy piece, but you made a wonderful recitation.

I found a couple of divergences:
00:00 a hair MORE than 1 second of silence at start of file.
00:27 heard "Immorality" s/b "ImmorTality"
4:20 heard "affection" s/b "Affectation" totally different word
13:14 heard "Gert's" s/b Gey-tuh's" a famously known name
13:50 heard "crude exile" s/b "CRUEL exile" different word
Outro repeats the "Immorality" instead of the correct "ImmorTality"

[jfgallagher]

Here is a second take on Chapter 34, "There's One Comes After"

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_34_brann_128kb.mp3

Without all of the "quote" "unquote" stuff, the recording time is now 08:46

I like this version better overall...enough so that I may have to consider doing a rehearsal for all my recordings.

Jim G.

[williamjones]

Here is a second take on Chapter 34, "There's One Comes After"

https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/iconoclast1_34_brann_128kb.mp3

Without all of the "quote" "unquote" stuff, the recording time is now 08:46

I like this version better overall...enough so that I may have to consider doing a rehearsal for all my recordings.

Jim G.

Thanks, Jim.
I listened to the first few minutes. It's a much more fluid delivery.
I'll Proof Listen it this evening.

Question: did you re-record the whole piece, or did you just excise the "quote" fragments? We have an Audacity editing pro, our DPL, Michele. I'm sure she has some tricks (=advice) that would have made the "quote-removal" quick and easy and obviate the need to re-record the whole thing. Save some time, y'know.