COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 087 - jo

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https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf087_iceberg_noble_sa_128kb.mp3

After Icebergs with the Painter Frederic Edwin Church

Two chapters from After Icebergs with a Painter, A Summer Voyage to Labrador and Around Newfoundland, 1861
by Rev. Louis Legrand Noble
1861

25:03

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=loc.ark:/13960/t0vq3qt68&view=1up&seq=193&skin=2021

"After Icebergs" is a first-hand account of two men in a whaleboat encountering an iceberg up close for the first time. One man was the American painter Frederic Edwin Church (1826-1900); the other man was Church's friend, the Reverend Louis Legrand Noble. Their boat has been deliberately maneuvered, by sail and oars, within 100 yards of a huge iceberg off the coast of Labrador. The iceberg is actively melting. In imminent danger of bursting apart, it is spewing large chunks of ice into the sea. The sailors manning the oars are nervous, but they keep the boat steady so Church and Noble can take a close look. Church sketches, while Noble, "a little seasick," tries, in awestruck prose, to capture the magnificence of the scene.

Here you can see Church's majestic painting: "Icebergs Floating in an Ocean"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Icebergs#/media/File:The_Icebergs_(Frederic_Edwin_Church),_1861_(color).jpg

I'm looking for someone to PL this for me, since, being the SNF dedicated proof listener, I can't very well PL my own recording.
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Looks interesting. I can PL it for you, if you like.
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That would be great, Mary! Thanks a lot! :D
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Good Evening:

Vanished Castles by F. R. Buckley From Adventure Magazine
June 20, 1925 (page 71)
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:13

Audio at:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf087_vanishedcastles_buckley_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at:
https://archive.org/details/AdventureV053N0219250620/page/n87/mode/2up



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Correction

The address for vanished castles is actually

https://archive.org/details/AdventureV053N0219250620/page/n87/mode/2up

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Grothmann wrote: October 11th, 2021, 11:06 pm Good Evening:

Vanished Castles by F. R. Buckley From Adventure Magazine
June 20, 1925 (page 71)
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 3:13

Thanks
Dale
Hi Dale, Thanks for this additional contribution to vol. 087! :D The history of the town of Liège, in modern day Belgium, looks to me, from a brief foray into Wikipedia, to be both complicated and interesting. "In 1345 the citizens of Liège rebelled against Prince-Bishop Engelbert III de la Marck, their ruler at the time, and defeated him in battle near the city. Shortly after, a unique political system formed in Liège, whereby the city's 32 guilds shared sole political control of the municipal government." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%C3%A8ge

The original of the story told in Adventure Magazine comes from the 1847 English translation of Jules Michelet's History of France, Vol. 2, p. 276, which is available through Google books: https://books.google.com/books?id=Pno_AQAAMAAJ

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"After Icebergs" can be marked PL OK. :thumbs:

That must have been a very impressive journey. It's worthy of a Ken Burns TV series! :)
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Thanks for the PL, Mary! :D
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Between My Actions and the Actions of My Model (The World and the Individual, Excerpt)
by Josiah Royce 1855-1916

https://archive.org/details/theworldandthein02roycuoft/page/310/mode/1up

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11:40

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soupy wrote: October 13th, 2021, 4:28 am Between My Actions and the Actions of My Model (The World and the Individual, Excerpt)
by Josiah Royce 1855-1916

Craig
Hi Craig, Many thanks for this selection from the writings of Josiah Royce (1855-1916), another seminal figure from American Philosophy who has been missing from the LibriVox catalog! :D

"Josiah Royce (1855-1916) was the leading American proponent of absolute idealism..." https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/royce/

In this selection, as I understood it, Royce is defining the ways in which we mature as individuals, mostly by "imitative adjustment to the social environment," but also, when "too ignorant or too unfortunate to find the right social models" by "acts at random in accordance with his instincts..." What interested me here was Royce's discussion of the "in between" that comes between the person that we are now and the person we seeking to become. "...We find ourselves doing something and conceive vaguely, in the yet unknown future, a way of acting that would satisfy if we could find it."

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Thanks for listening Sue :D

His idea of the 'in between" is big in current philosophy and psychology.

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Here is my contribution to this volume. An engineer this time! :D

Ferdinand De Lesseps--Chief Promoter of the Suez Canal
From Scientific American Vol. 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8952

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Availle wrote: October 15th, 2021, 11:43 pm Here is my contribution to this volume. An engineer this time! :D

Ferdinand De Lesseps--Chief Promoter of the Suez Canal
From Scientific American Vol. 22, No. 1, January 1, 1870
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8952

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf087_delesseps_sciam_ava_128kb.mp3
9:20

Hi Availle, Thanks for this biographical essay on Ferdinand de Lesseps! :D It certainly drives home the point that bringing such immense public works as the Suez Canal to completion are dependent on diplomatic skills as much as engineering know-how!

There's only one small slip in your reading, which is not critical, but it would help the flow if you would do a fix. It's at 7:51.5. The text here reads "What is perhaps most remarkable in a man so bred and constituted, is that with gentleness of speech and suavity of manner he combines a strength of will and fixity of purpose worthy of Napoleon or Caesar himself." You said "gentleness of speed."

The Scientific American magazine has lots of interesting articles. Did you, by chance, read the article in the same 1870 issue titled "Plants in Sleeping Rooms"? I expected one of those "feel-good-closer-to-nature-with-houseplants" articles which are so prevalent now-a-days. But no! :lol: What followed was "a brief but clear exposition of the injurious effects of plants in sleeping apartments... All plants, irrespective of their kind or nature, absorb oxygen and exhale carbonic acid in the dark...and a number of plants placed in a room would...tend to vitiate the air." What fun!
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TommyMer wrote: October 16th, 2021, 12:21 pm The Real Chaplin, by Samuel Goldman
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URL:https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/59730/pg59730-images.html, page 158

5:38.29

Have a fine day!
Hi TommyMer,
Thanks for this intriguing and perceptive portrait of Charlie Chaplin by Samuel Goldwyn, published in 1923 (before the age of sound films)! :D I was not really familiar with Chaplin's biography, but Goldwyn's comment that "Chaplin loves power--as no one else whom I have ever met he loves it" sent me scurrying to Wikipedia to read more about Chaplin's life.

"Money contributes to this sense [of power]. He sticks out for his large contract and therefore he saves a great deal of his earnings. But it affords him just as much consciousness of power to think that he, Chaplin, can afford to walk away from these assembled actors and stage-hands. Ergo, he does that."

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