COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 086 - jo

[Sue Anderson]

Pleasures
Aldous Huxley
Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/60866/60866-h/60866-h.htm#Page_48
08:52
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_pleasures_huxley_vm_128kb.mp3

Hi vmead, Thanks for this opinionated piece by Aldous Huxley, prophesizing--in 1923--the downfall of Western civilization! 100 years later civilization is still alive, but Huxley still has a lot to say to us: "With a mind almost atrophied by lack of use, unable to entertain itself and grown so wearily uninterested in the ready-made distractions offered from without that nothing but the grossest stimulants of an every-increasing violence and crudity can move it, the democracy of the future will sicken of a chronic and mortal boredom."

PL OK!

[Sue Anderson]

Good Evening:

Power Of “Third” Parties
Unattributed
From the Popular magazine
December 7, 1920
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 2:35

Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_powerofthirdparties_unattributed_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://archive.org/details/popular-magazine-v-058-n-03-1920-12-07/page/140/mode/2up

I found this, and thought it a particularly good observation, considering the state of the country.
Thanks

Dale

Thanks, Dale, for this informative look at the role of splinter parties in U.S. politics. Your reading is PL OK!

[Sue Anderson]

Excerpt from The Tragic Sense of Life
Miguel de Unamuno 1864-1936
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_de_Unamuno

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/14636

Starts with: Singular judgments have the value of universal judgments, the logicians say.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_tragicsenseoflife_unamuno_cc_128kb.mp3

11:07

Craig

Hi Craig, Thanks for this excerpt from Unamuno's always eloquent and expressive philosophic thoughts:
"...the most tragic problem of philosophy is to reconcile intellectual necessities with the necessities of the heart and the will. For it is on this rock that every philosophy that pretends to resolve the eternal and tragic contradiction, the basis of our existence, breaks to pieces."

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[Piotrek81]

And here, to fullfill my quota, is an EB entry on a national hero of Poland AND the US, Tadeusz Kościuszko.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_kosciuszko_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 duration 13:59
source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40641/40641-h/40641-h.htm#ar158

Interestingly, just above this one, is an entry on Australia's highest mountain, named after the general, and you can see that its name has been simplified to make it look somewhat less daunting and facilitate pronunciation

And now for some visual elements
The mound mentioned in the text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bciuszko_Mound#/media/File:Krakow_2006_195.jpg
The battle of Racławice has been immortalised on a monumental painting which can be seen in a museum in Wrocław. Some details of it can be viewed here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rac%C5%82awice_Panorama

[Sue Anderson]

And here, to fullfill my quota, is an EB entry on a national hero of Poland AND the US, Tadeusz Kościuszko.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_kosciuszko_encyclopediabritannica_pn81_128kb.mp3 duration 13:59
source: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/40641/40641-h/40641-h.htm#ar158

Interestingly, just above this one, is an entry on Australia's highest mountain, named after the general, and you can see that its name has been simplified to make it look somewhat less daunting and facilitate pronunciation

And now for some visual elements
The mound mentioned in the text: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ko%C5%9Bciuszko_Mound#/media/File:Krakow_2006_195.jpg
The battle of Racławice has been immortalised on a monumental painting which can be seen in a museum in Wrocław. Some details of it can be viewed here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Rac%C5%82awice_Panorama

Hi Piotrek81,

Many thanks for this biography of Tadeusz Kościuszko! Wow... what an adventurous life... Thanks, also, for the photo of the memorial mound. Per Wikipedia, there are also two prehistoric mounds in Kraków. I found that fact particularly interesting because my U.S. state, Illinois, is known for its prehistoric mounds: https://www.enjoyillinois.com/travel-illinois/cahokia-mounds/

Haithi Trust has a copy of the book Kościuszko wrote, Manoeuvres of Horse Artillery (1808). It contains an idealized engraving of Kościuszko as young man, with all the good looks that must have made him attractive to Ludwika Sosnowski! https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433009107123&view=1up&seq=8&skin=2021.

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[MaryinArkansas]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_unclesamlottery_miller_mh_128kb.mp3
Article Title: "Uncle Sam's Last Big Lottery". Length of article: 21:34, Word count: 1783.

Looking online at old issues of “The Saturday Evening Post” on HathiTrust, I came across this article on the South Dakota land lottery of the early 1900s.

It was especially interesting to me because a few years ago I read the book “Land of the Burnt Thigh”, which tells the story of two sisters who homesteaded in South Dakota during that time. The book is on Gutenberg and may be a tempting non-fiction read for a fellow LibriVoxer:

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24352

If needed, here are the links and information on the Post article:

HathiTrust Link:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112109516655&view=1up&seq=48&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112109516655&view=1up&seq=49&skin=2021

My Google Drive Link: “Uncle Sam’s Last Big Lottery”

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N261ykVf3FBdDXN87ambNlMar0xT2EMR/view?usp=sharing

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Mary, Thank you for your contribution to vol. 086! This article from the Saturday Evening Post is very informative as to how the acreage, formerly part of the Sioux Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota, was opened up to white settlement in 1904.

Let's hope someone picks up on your suggestion for the book by the two sisters, which, with the title "Land of the Burnt Thigh" sounds intriguing! If you haven't already done so, why don't you write a little blurb about the book for the LibriVox "Book Suggestions" thread?

There is only one edit needed, and that is a sentence you left out at 15:46, which reads "The heavy falls of snow during midwinter are followed by sunshine."

[MaryinArkansas]

Sue,

Here is my corrected upload for the South Dakota lottery article:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_unclesamlottery_miller_mh_128kb.mp3

Time on it is now 21:37.

I did post a recommendation for the "Land of the Burnt Thigh" book in the book suggestions thread.

Edith Kohl, who wrote the book, must have been a very interesting woman. I found this article about her written by her nephew:

https://edithkohltrilogybooks.com/the-story/

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks for the edit, Mary! I wish that sunshine followed snow storms in my section of the country, but, alas, it doesn't.

PL OK!

[Sue Anderson]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_colesjournal_noble_sa_128kb.mp3

Thomas Cole's Journal 1834-1835 (excerpt)
from: The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, N.A.
by Rev. Louis L. Noble
1856

17:56

https://archive.org/details/lifeworksofthoma00nobl/page/189/mode/1up

"November 8th [1834]--Today I commenced packing for my return to New York. It is rather a melancholy business. After my summer in the country, I always go to the city with a presentiment of evil." Thomas Cole

Thomas Cole (1801-1848), an Anglo-American painter, is considered the founder of the Hudson River School of landscape painters. These entries from his private journal, written in 1834-1835, and first published in 1853, bring to mind Thoreau's Walden (1854). http://www.explorethomascole.org/

I'm looking for someone to PL this selection, since as BC I can't very well PL my own work. Someone who appreciates Thoreau would, I think, enjoy Cole. The reading begins on page 189, with the journal entry for November 5, 1834, and ends on page 197, with the entry for June 1, 1835.

[knotyouraveragejo]

I can PL it for you in the next day or two,

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Jo!

[knotyouraveragejo]

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_colesjournal_noble_sa_128kb.mp3

Thomas Cole's Journal 1834-1835 (excerpt)
from: The Life and Works of Thomas Cole, N.A.
by Rev. Louis L. Noble
1856

17:56

PL OK!

I also dislike fashionable parties. I have either not confidence enough or small talk to shine. I escape from then with as much delight as if just liberated from a jail.

My sentiments exactly!

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks for the PL, Jo!

[knotyouraveragejo]

Here's one from me

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf086_influenzaprevention_douglasislandnews_jms.mp3
5:23

This is a recording of two short columns from the Douglas Island News https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84021930/

"Safety Measures Being Taken" and "Do's and Don't's for Influenza Prevention"

Douglas Island News, Douglas Alaska November 15, 1918.

text link : https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn84021930/1918-11-15/ed-1/seq-1/

I've also uploaded a more legible photoshopped copy of just the two articles that may be easier for PLing if you enlarge it a little.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/douglasislandnewsnov151918.jpg