COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 084 - jo

[Sue Anderson]

You said "What android forgers..."

Ah yes, those android forgers!

Spot checks at:
2:35, repeat beginning "written from that place..."

8:59 Text says (xvii. 24-27); you said "chapter 18."

41:18, Text says (xiv. 24); you said "verse 27"

42:17 Text says "What adroit forgers..." You said "What android forgers..."

I suspected Siri!

Hi InTheDesert,

I just listened to your edits via the Magic Window, and I am still hearing the original version, not the edited one. Could you do me a favor and please upload the corrected version again and post a link to the URL here? If the file names are exactly the same, the edited version should override the original in the MW, but for some reason that doesn't seem to have happened, at least yet. Thanks!

[InTheDesert]

You said "What android forgers..."

Ah yes, those android forgers!

Spot checks at:
2:35, repeat beginning "written from that place..."

8:59 Text says (xvii. 24-27); you said "chapter 18."

41:18, Text says (xiv. 24); you said "verse 27"

42:17 Text says "What adroit forgers..." You said "What android forgers..."

I suspected Siri!

Hi InTheDesert,

I just listened to your edits via the Magic Window, and I am still hearing the original version, not the edited one. Could you do me a favor and please upload the corrected version again and post a link to the URL here? If the file names are exactly the same, the edited version should override the original in the MW, but for some reason that doesn't seem to have happened, at least yet. Thanks!

My mistake. Edited and exported but forgot to upload. It's on the server now.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_gospelslawyer_bennett_itd_128kb.mp3

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, InTheDesert, PL OK!

[twylla]

Good Afternoon!

Florence Nightingale to her Nurses (excerpt includes preface, parts 1,2,3)
runtime 40:19

Audio
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_florencenightingale_nightingale_tjj_128kb.mp3

Text
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49732/49732-h/49732-h.htm

Twylla Johnson

[Sue Anderson]

Good Afternoon!

Florence Nightingale to her Nurses (excerpt includes preface, parts 1,2,3)
runtime 40:19

Audio
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_florencenightingale_nightingale_tjj_128kb.mp3

Text
https://www.gutenberg.org/files/49732/49732-h/49732-h.htm

Twylla Johnson

Hi Twylla, Thanks so much for these excerpts from Florence Nightingale's addresses to her nurses. I was particularly impressed with the incitefulness of her comments about authority, in section III.

What are the qualities which give us authority, which enable us to exercise some charge or control over others with “authority”? It is not the charge or position itself, for we often see persons in a position of authority, who have no authority at all; and on the other hand we sometimes see persons in the very humblest position who exercise a great influence or authority on all around them.
...
A person in charge must be felt more than she is heard—not heard more than she is felt. She must fulfil her charge without noisy disputes, by the silent power of a consistent life, in which there is no seeming, and no hiding, but plenty of discretion. She must exercise authority without appearing to exercise it.

Twylla, you did a fine job of conveying Miss Nightingale's thoughts! I have only one suggested edit, and that is that you insert the words "London, May 1872," at 8:35 in your recording, just after you say "Part I." I think inclusion of the year and place, which are in the printed text, help the listener place Miss Nightingale's remarks.

[twylla]

Update has been made and the corrected file uploaded.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_florencenightingale_nightingale_tjj_128kb.mp3

Thank you!
Twylla

[twylla]

updated runtime is 40:23 (mm:ss)

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Twylla, for edit & updated time; PL OK!

[soupy]

A Series of Ascending Forms and Powers prevails in our Earthly Creation.
From Book V Chapter I of The Philosophy of History
by Johann Gottfried Herder 1744-1803

https://archive.org/details/b22010282/page/107/mode/1up

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_ascendingforms_herder_cc_128kb.mp3

13:14

Craig

[Sue Anderson]

A Series of Ascending Forms and Powers prevails in our Earthly Creation.
From Book V Chapter I of The Philosophy of History
by Johann Gottfried Herder 1744-1803

https://archive.org/details/b22010282/page/107/mode/1up

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_ascendingforms_herder_cc_128kb.mp3

13:14

Craig

Hi Craig, Thanks for adding another excerpt from Herder to the SNF collection, a writer who the Stanford Encyclopedia of History calls "a philosopher of the first importance." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/herder/

Herder, as I understood the selection, is placing "mind" as the highest "power" in his "series of ascending Forms and Powers." "Let man's thoughts be as devoid of reason as possible, still on every occasion, when he thinks, he imitates the disposing deity; in whatever he wills and performs, he imitates the creating God. The similitude lies in the thing itself: it is grounded on the essence of his mind."

Well read and PL OK!

[soupy]

Thanks for the PL Sue Yes the mind has held a supreme place in philosophy for a long time. The emotions have always been seen as a distraction from the godly power of thinking until recently.

Craig

[randyj]

I would like to record the chapter entitled "The Machine That Thinks" in the "Stories Of Inventors" volume.

Hi Randy, "The Machine That Thinks" is an excellent choice to read for the Short Nonfiction Collection! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11368/11368-h/11368-h.htm#A_MACHINE_THAT_THINKS

From the pictures accompanying that chapter, the machine in question looks like a version of the linotype--fascinating to watch in action!
We look forward to hearing your selection when it's recorded!

The Machine That Thinks from "Stories Of Inventors"
Russell Doubleday
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_storiesinventors_doubleday_jr_128kb.mp3
source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11368
nine minutes

--randyj

[Sue Anderson]

I would like to record the chapter entitled "The Machine That Thinks" in the "Stories Of Inventors" volume.

Hi Randy, "The Machine That Thinks" is an excellent choice to read for the Short Nonfiction Collection! https://www.gutenberg.org/files/11368/11368-h/11368-h.htm#A_MACHINE_THAT_THINKS

From the pictures accompanying that chapter, the machine in question looks like a version of the linotype--fascinating to watch in action!
We look forward to hearing your selection when it's recorded!

The Machine That Thinks from "Stories Of Inventors"
Russell Doubleday
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_storiesinventors_doubleday_jr_128kb.mp3
source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11368
nine minutes

--randyj

Hi Randy, Thanks for this essay on the evolution of typesetting! Interesting that the machine used a perforated paper strip to convey the text; I couldn't help but think of the old IBM computer cards when I heard that.

You read flawlessly to the point just above the picture labeled "Where the Brains are Located." However, there's one last bit below the picture, which I would appreciate your adding onto your recording. What's said there is: "Though a machine has been invented that will put an author's words into type, no mechanism has yet been invented that will do away with type altogether. It is one of the problems still to be solved." Of course, the problem has been now been "solved" by U-Tube and other video media. Yesterday, I was reading that "in-the-know" young people now post video resumes on TikTok, because recruiters don't pay attention to paper anymore... https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/19/technology/tiktok-resumes-jobs.html

[alanine]

Here's my contribution:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_oldcunny_edwards_ad_128kb.mp3

Title: Cincinnati's "Old Cunny," A Notorious Purveyor of Human Flesh
Author: Linden F. Edwards
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65856
Length: 17:37

[Sue Anderson]

Here's my contribution:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf084_oldcunny_edwards_ad_128kb.mp3

Title: Cincinnati's "Old Cunny," A Notorious Purveyor of Human Flesh
Author: Linden F. Edwards
Text: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/65856
Length: 17:37

Hi Alan, Welcome to the Short Nonfiction Collection with this true-life body snatching tale! Well read and PL OK!

I particularly enjoyed your choice of subject, as the small Midwestern town where I live had a medical college back in the 1840s. The building is still standing; it's now a pub, and it is one of the "highlights" of walking tours of the town, due to a notorious body snatching incident in 1849 involving a bride-to-be from a neighboring town. A mob, a riot, a gunfight; the body lost, a spiritual-medium consulted; the body found, etc. All this related to tourists standing on a street corner outside the present-day pub (probably good for business?) https://www.stcmuseum.org/blog/2020/4/18/grave-robbing-gunfights-and-sances-the-story-of-the-richards-riot-of-1849