[COMPLETE] No More Parades by Ford Madox Ford - dc

[Sunrise2020]

PL for sections 10 and 11 is okay and 10 was definitely enhanced by your fine singing voice!

[TheBanjo]

PL for sections 10 and 11 is okay and 10 was definitely enhanced by your fine singing voice!

Ha! After this experience, I'd certainly stay clear of reading a novel about, say, an opera singer. But fortunately, I get to choose...

I have just uploaded section 13: https://librivox.org/uploads/craigdav1/nomoreparades_13_ford_128kb.mp3 (32:57)

It's been only in reading (aloud) this section that I think I've finally begun to grasp what I think is the full meaning of the novel's title. Previously, I'd taken it to mean (merely) something like "No more having to do military type things", but I can see now that it really has more of the flavour of "No more putting on an exaggerated show of shininess and discipline and stiff upper lip" - No More Pretences, almost.

[Sunrise2020]

Greetings from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I’ve had my first glimpse of the neighborhood and it’ll be a very enjoyable three weeks of going to school here.

I PL’ed the last two sections and they’re fine. I can’t believe that we’ve finished the second novel. And I’m sorry that there’s an issue with copyright for the final installment because I’d like to hear how the story ends. I might have to read it instead. I think you’re right about the meaning of “No more parades” and how things inferred and not said, made lives difficult for our characters.

[craigdav1]

Off to catalog this one.

[craigdav1]

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/no-more-parades-by-ford-madox-ford/

Let me know if anything is amiss. Congrats!

[TheBanjo]

All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/no-more-parades-by-ford-madox-ford/

Let me know if anything is amiss. Congrats!

Thank you, Dave, for all your help with this.

Alas, I'm afraid I seem to have become a bit of a specialist in the Department of Last Minute Problems. I've just realised that my Summary of this novel is misleading, in that it implies some of the action occurs at the front line of the war (ie, in the trenches), when in fact we get into the trenches only in the third volume of the tetralogy (which will become PD next year).

Is it therefore possible, at this late date, to change the Summary so that

"in, and just behind, the lines at Rouen"

becomes

"just behind the lines at Rouen"

?

[TheBanjo]

Greetings from Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I’ve had my first glimpse of the neighborhood and it’ll be a very enjoyable three weeks of going to school here.

I PL’ed the last two sections and they’re fine. I can’t believe that we’ve finished the second novel. And I’m sorry that there’s an issue with copyright for the final installment because I’d like to hear how the story ends. I might have to read it instead. I think you’re right about the meaning of “No more parades” and how things inferred and not said, made lives difficult for our characters.

Thanks so much for all your help with this. Yes, it seemed to go quickly, didn't it? It's not a huge novel, with much of the main action centred on just a few key scenes, and some of those very heavy with dialog. I have just been listening to "Joseph Conrad: A Reminiscence" by Ford Madox Ford, in which FMF reflects on the kind of theory of the novel that he and Conrad agreed on when they collaborated on some projects in the early 1900s. On the question of dialog, FMF mentions it's often helpful to allude to what was covered in a conversation rather than quote directly, and indicates that he did this in The Good Soldier, which includes only very sparse dialog in actual quote marks. Looking back at that novel, I can see that is true - whereas in this novel there was a lot more dialog in quote marks.
Your present location looks stunning from some of the photos I've just been Googling. Quite some cathedral, and lots of other interesting-looking buildings, too.

[craigdav1]

Peter,
Check to make sure the changes to the summary are as you intended.
Dave

[TheBanjo]

Peter,
Check to make sure the changes to the summary are as you intended.
Dave

Perfect! Thank you!

[alanmapstone]

Hi Peter
Congratulations on getting this finished. It is good to have these two books in the catalogue. Pity we have to wait for the third book but hopefully it will come.
I don't know if you have read the third book but it is written in a distinctively "stream of consciousness" style which was very fashionable at that time (Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, etc). This may make it harder to read but I am sure you are up for the challenge
Good luck.

[TheBanjo]

Hi Peter
Congratulations on getting this finished. It is good to have these two books in the catalogue. Pity we have to wait for the third book but hopefully it will come.
I don't know if you have read the third book but it is written in a distinctively "stream of consciousness" style which was very fashionable at that time (Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, etc). This may make it harder to read but I am sure you are up for the challenge
Good luck.

Alan, i owe you such a debt of gratitude for pointing me towards these books! Yes, I have read the third, and am currently halfway through the fourth. Certainly the scrambling together of internal dialog without quote marks, internal dialog with quote marks and external dialog can make for a complicated read, but I'm up for the challenge. I've been interested, too, to read (actually listen) to Ford's account of his and Conrad's theorising about how to write an "impressionistic" novel in his "Joseph Conrad: A Personal Reminiscence", available on Librivox. Much of his theorising there seems quite consistent with the practice you're describing.
I very much appreciate your support!

[Sunrise2020]

Hi Peter
Congratulations on getting this finished. It is good to have these two books in the catalogue. Pity we have to wait for the third book but hopefully it will come.
I don't know if you have read the third book but it is written in a distinctively "stream of consciousness" style which was very fashionable at that time (Ulysses, Virginia Woolf, etc). This may make it harder to read but I am sure you are up for the challenge
Good luck.

Alan, i owe you such a debt of gratitude for pointing me towards these books! Yes, I have read the third, and am currently halfway through the fourth. Certainly the scrambling together of internal dialog without quote marks, internal dialog with quote marks and external dialog can make for a complicated read, but I'm up for the challenge. I've been interested, too, to read (actually listen) to Ford's account of his and Conrad's theorising about how to write an "impressionistic" novel in his "Joseph Conrad: A Personal Reminiscence", available on Librivox. Much of his theorising there seems quite consistent with the practice you're describing.
I very much appreciate your support!

I'm also interested in reading the third and the fourth books. Did you read those as e-books or as "real" ones?

[TheBanjo]

I'm also interested in reading the third and the fourth books. Did you read those as e-books or as "real" ones?

I own a Kindle device, and also have the Kindle app on my iPhone, and (much to my surprise) have found this a really good way to read all kinds of books over the past 5 years or so. The last two novels in the tetralogy are "A man could stand up" and "Last post". For the purposes of reading these privately to myself, I've read the really excellent Carcanet editions of these novels, available on Kindle. These have excellent introductions, and some very handy footnotes too.
There are free online versions of both texts available at the Australian Project Gutenberg site. These are a bit spotty in patches, but are certainly quite readable:
A Man Could Stand Up: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks07/0700191h.html
Last Post: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1403261h.html