COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 088 - jo

[MaryinArkansas]

These are two links to one article: “Waiting for the Bolshevists”. They are distinguished by the number 1 at the end of the first title and the number 2 at the end of the second title:

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_bumpingbolshevists1_warren_mh_128kb.mp3
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_bumpingbolshevists2_warren_mh_128kb.mp3

The duration of the first article is 37:39. The duration of the second article is 44:34.

I found this article from the “Saturday Evening Post” (Sep. 18, 1920) on the HathiTrust website. The more I read, the more interested I became. I decided it would be a good candidate for the short non-fiction collection. I realized that it isn’t short enough, so I divided it into two sections. If that’s not acceptable for this category, maybe it can be used somewhere else on LibriVox. If not, at least I got a lot of recording practice.

LibriVox has only one of Mrs. Warren’s books (King Arthur and His Knights) although she wrote several. She also wrote for magazines. During World War I Mrs. Warren was a war correspondent for the “Saturday Evening Post.” This post-war article is an account of several weeks that Mrs. Warren spent in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the early period of the Bolshevik take over. Although she wasn’t technically a prisoner, Mrs. Warren (among several other people) was not allowed to leave Baku for several weeks.

Links to individual pages of Bolshevist article, HathiTrust, Saturday Evening Post, September 18, 1920

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=386&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=387&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=539&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=543&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=546&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=548&skin=2021
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112033786606&view=1up&seq=551&skin=2021

Link to complete article on my Google Drive Share
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xFnWdUtQcF1ScXbfBK6HGQMwAcBi9Sxc/view?usp=sharing

[Sue Anderson]

These are two links to one article: “Waiting for the Bolshevists”. They are distinguished by the number 1 at the end of the first title and the number 2 at the end of the second title:

I found this article from the “Saturday Evening Post” (Sep. 18, 1920) on the HathiTrust website. The more I read, the more interested I became. I decided it would be a good candidate for the short non-fiction collection. I realized that it isn’t short enough, so I divided it into two sections. If that’s not acceptable for this category, maybe it can be used somewhere else on LibriVox. If not, at least I got a lot of recording practice.

LibriVox has only one of Mrs. Warren’s books (King Arthur and His Knights) although she wrote several. She also wrote for magazines. During World War I Mrs. Warren was a war correspondent for the “Saturday Evening Post.” This post-war article is an account of several weeks that Mrs. Warren spent in Baku, Azerbaijan, during the early period of the Bolshevik take over. Although she wasn’t technically a prisoner, Mrs. Warren (among several other people) was not allowed to leave Baku for several weeks.


Link to complete article on my Google Drive Share
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xFnWdUtQcF1ScXbfBK6HGQMwAcBi9Sxc/view?usp=sharing

Hi Mary, Thanks for this 2-part contribution to vol. 088! It was an excellent choice! A female American journalist arrives by boat in Baku, expecting to make a routine rail connection, and instead runs headlong into the Soviet takeover of Azerbaijan, which had begun 12 hours before she arrived! Then, she's interned in Baku for 50-odd days before she's allowed to leave, while revolution upturns every aspect of city life! Weaver's account makes riveting reading. Thanks for your Google doc., which made PLing much easier!

Mary, given the length of your recording, there aren't, proportionally, too many edits. There are just a few places where revisions would help the flow.
Part 1:

page 8, at 1:00 Text reads "I was walking along Politizaskia, the street on which I lived, and also the street..."
You left out "the street on which I lived..."

page 8, at 2:57, Text reads "It all seemed too much to bear. I was passing on with my head down..." You left out "It all seemed too much to bear."

page 9, at 10:18, Text reads "...with Wiillmie, the Indian driver, yelling loud curses whenever we met Persians driving donkeys or camels..." You said "driving donkeys on camels..."

page 161. at 16:08, Text reads "indicated streaming eyes." You said "steaming eyes."

page 161, at 22:34, Text reads "...I must pay thirty-five hundred rubles customs on my rugs." You used singular "rug"

page 161, at 23:29, Text reads "...and something like a hundred years ago..." You said "five hundred years"

page 161, at 25:07, Text reads "and the republic continued to be recognized." You said "unrecognized"

page 161, at 25:58, Text reads "Lenine & Co. never for a moment forogt Baku." Here the text is referring to "Lenin & Co." as a synonym for the "Russian leaders." Why the Saturday Evening Post has added an "e" to Lenin, I don't know, but I think you should pronounce "Lenine" as "Lenin" (common English pronunciation of the name).
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Part 2:

Part 2, page 170, at 30:47, Text reads "Another American, whose home is in Batum, Mr. Van L..." You said "whose name is in Batum..."

page 170, at 33:23, "and we were told it was because Lenine sent word that he would not let Azerbaijan have another soldier..." Please pronounce "Lenine" as "Lenin."

Thanks for this most interesting selection!

[Sue Anderson]

PM to chulsky re edits.

[dckabir]

Hi

My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
30:20
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22217
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_myreminiscences_tagore_dc_128kb.mp3

I've read part 1 of the book which would be the first volume. Can I read part 2 as well? That would cover 2 volumes of the book, although I'd love to read the entire book eventually.

Thanks

[MaryinArkansas]

Mary, given the length of your recording, there aren't, proportionally, too many edits. There are just a few places where revisions would help the flow.

Thanks for this most interesting selection!

Thank you for accepting this selection and for proof listening. I'm glad that you enjoyed it.

As I mostly DPL other people's readings, I'm usually much more conscientious about proof listening my own recordings. However, this time I wanted to get the recordings submitted before going on to other projects, so just did basic editing. I'll work on corrections after Thanksgiving weekend.

Some of what Mrs. Warren wrote about her emotions and feelings during her time in Baku would be considered PTSD today. I doubt if such a thing was considered back then, so far as journalists covering wars/warlike conditions were concerned.

[Sue Anderson]

Hi

My Reminiscences
Rabindranath Tagore
30:20
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/22217
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_myreminiscences_tagore_dc_128kb.mp3

I've read part 1 of the book which would be the first volume. Can I read part 2 as well? That would cover 2 volumes of the book, although I'd love to read the entire book eventually.

Thanks

Hi dckabir, Welcome to LibriVox and to the Short Nonfiction Collection (SNF). It was a real pleasure for me to listen to your recording. You read very well! The childhood scenes that Tagore paints are fascinating--the chalk line circle that he was afraid to transgress; the imaginary "King's palace" that he never finds--all in all a wonderful evocation of childhood.

Yes, you could read another selection from the Reminiscences for volume 088. Each reader is allowed two selections per volume. Or, you could certainly read another section for a subsequent volume of the SNF. You should be aware, however, that if you have plans to do the book as a solo, LibriVox will require that you re-record the chapters that were originally part of a collection.

There are just a couple of places in your recording, where I would suggest edits -- edits which, however, you are not obligated to do if you don't want to because your misreads do not substantially change the meaning of the text. (see #5 in the instructions for the SNF Special Standards for proof listening.)

Suggested edits:

page 19, between 25:58 and 26:04, Text reads "Who the king might be I never cared to inquire; where his palace is still remains undiscovered; this much was clear--the king's palace was within our house." In both places in this sentence where the word "palace" is written, you said "place."

page 20, at 27:17, Text reads "Words cannot recount the endless joy and wonder which this miniature mountain-top held for us." You said "miniature fountain-top."

All in all, a fine recording. Thank you for your contribution to vol. 088!

[dckabir]

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Suggested edits:

page 19, between 25:58 and 26:04, Text reads "Who the king might be I never cared to inquire; where his palace is still remains undiscovered; this much was clear--the king's palace was within our house." In both places in this sentence where the word "palace" is written, you said "place."

page 20, at 27:17, Text reads "Words cannot recount the endless joy and wonder which this miniature mountain-top held for us." You said "miniature fountain-top."

All in all, a fine recording. Thank you for your contribution to vol. 088!
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Thank you Sue, I'm enjoying reading for Librivox and its been a great way for me to get back in touch with reading and some favourite authors.

I've corrected both of your suggested edits. There's a slight difference in volume, hope that'll be ok.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_myreminiscences_tagore_dc_128kb.mp3

[Sue Anderson]

Thank you Sue, I'm enjoying reading for Librivox and its been a great way for me to get back in touch with reading and some favourite authors.

I've corrected both of your suggested edits. There's a slight difference in volume, hope that'll be ok.
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_myreminiscences_tagore_dc_128kb.mp3

Thanks, dckabir, for your quick response. All PL OK now!

[Availle]

Sue, it's a bit busy here, but I still want to contribute to this one (and not break my chain...) Could you reserve me a spot please? I'll try to get something to you next week or so.

Thank you!

[Sue Anderson]

You're welcome to your usual spot, Availle! Take care!

[chulsky]

Hello, Sue, Jo, and other fellow volunteers!
I am submitting a short essay by J.K.Jerome, Russians as I Know Them:
Text: https://juxtintime.wordpress.com/2014/09/04/russians-as-i-know-them-1904/
Audio: https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_russiansasiknow_jerome_mch_128kb.mp3 [20:22]

This essay could be chalked up under History or Humor as well as NF, let me know if you feel it should be submitted in a different collection.
Thank you!

Hi Mark, Many thanks for adding this essay by J.K.Jerome about what he perceived as the "Russian character" and the state of Russia in 1904! The unrest that he describes seems of particular interest, given the subsequent events of 1905.

There are only two edits needed. You missed one of your repeats between 13:06.5 and 13:11 ("Corruption appears to be so general...")

The other edit needed occurs at 20:01, where you state the name of the newspaper from which you read the article as The San Francisco Chronicle. The newspaper's name was actually the San Francisco Call, and it was an antecedent of Hearst's San Francisco Examiner: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_San_Francisco_Call Back in the days I remember, the SF Chronicle and the SF Examiner used to "duke it out" in a manner approximating the two fighting Russians you read about.

Thank you, Sue! I count on LV folks to educate me, but your comment is above and beyond!
I apologize for the long response time , the real life took over, but I am back; the section is resubmitted and ready for spot-PL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_russiansasiknow_jerome_mch_128kb.mp3 [20:15]
Hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving.

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks, Mark, PL OK!

[progressingamerica]

Could Woodrow Wilson's work "The Study of Administration" be added to this collection?

It's from 1887. The recording is essentially complete but I have a little more editing to do, I'll get it to you in a day or two.

Source:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Political_science_quarterly/F1BEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA197

[Sue Anderson]

Could Woodrow Wilson's work "The Study of Administration" be added to this collection?

It's from 1887. The recording is essentially complete but I have a little more editing to do, I'll get it to you in a day or two.

Source:
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Political_science_quarterly/F1BEAAAAIAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&pg=PA197

Hi progressingamerica, This selection from Woodrow Wilson, published in 1887, is PD and is an excellent choice for the SNF!

[progressingamerica]

1:01:17

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf088_studyofadministration_wilson_128kb.mp3