All audio files can be found on our catalog page: https://librivox.org/modern-magic-by-maximilian-schele-de-vere/
Abandoned solo. Opened as group project 3/27/2021
M. (Maxamilian) Schele de Vere was born in Sweden in 1820 and studied language in Germany before eventually becoming a professor of modern language at the University of Virginia in 1844 where he would teach for more than 50 years. During his time as a professor, he would write many books, mostly focusing on language. One of his last works, being first published in 1873, "Modern Magic" instead focuses on the occult. From the preface: "The main purpose of our existence on earth—aside from the sacred and paramount duty of securing our salvation—is undoubtedly to make ourselves masters of the tangible world around us, as it stands revealed to our senses, and as it was expressly made subject to our will by the Creator. We are, however, at the same time, not left without information about the existence of certain laws and the occurrence of certain phenomena, which belong to a world not accessible to us by means of our ordinary senses, and which yet affect seriously our intercourse with Nature and our personal welfare... The least that we can do is to ascertain the precise nature of these laws, and, after stripping these phenomena of all that can be proved to be merely incidental or delusive, to compare them with each other, and to arrange them carefully according to some standard of classification" ( CaptainKetchup)
- Text source (only read from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/38448
- Type of proof-listening required (Note: please read the PL FAQ): standard
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Magic Window:
BC Admin - Link to author on Wikipedia (if available): (Maximilian Schele de Vere) : n/a
- Link to title on Wikipedia (if available):
- Number of sections (files) this project will have: 13
- Does the project have an introduction or preface [y/n]: Yes
- Original publication date (if known): 1873
- If you are a new volunteer, how would you like your name (or pseudonym) credited in the catalog? Do you have a URL you would like associated with your name?:
Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Philosophy; *Non-fiction/Religion
Keywords that describe the book: magic, superstition, Occult, witchcraft
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[*]The reader will record the following at the beginning and end of each file:
No more than 0.5 to 1 second of silence at the beginning of the recording!
START of recording (Intro):
- "Section [number] of Modern Magic. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information, or to volunteer, please visit: librivox DOT org"
- If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - Say:
"Modern Magic, by Maximilian Schele de Vere. [Section title]"
END of recording:
- At the end of the section, say:
"End of [section #]" - If you wish, say:
"Recording by [your name], [city, your blog, podcast, web address]" - At the end of the book, say (in addition):
"End of Modern Magic, by Maximilian Schele de Vere. "
There should be ~5 seconds silence at the end of the recording.
[*]Example filename modernmagic_##_scheledevere_128kb.mp3 (all lower-case) where ## is the section number (e.g. modernmagic_01_scheledevere_128kb.mp3)
Transfer of files (completed recordings)
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- Upload your file with the LibriVox Uploader: https://librivox.org/login/uploader
(If you have trouble reading the image above, please message an admin) - You'll need to select the MC, which for this project is: lt - Lynnet
- When your upload is complete, you will receive a link - please post it in this thread.
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This is my first time doing a solo project, and my second project on the site overall, so any help would be appreciated! I look forward to working with everyone on this site now and in the future!