Craig and Phil, I just now downloaded and listened to Phil's recording. At 5:35, the text reads "True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture." And that is what Phil says. I did not find any errors in Phil's reading. I think we should mark it PL OK.
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Craig and Sue -
I haven't a clue what that line is supposed to mean, but I think contentment with the accent on the second syllable is the correct one. Towards the beginning of this, Chesterton says, "Some distinguish these by stressing different syllables." I found that somewhat surprising. Here I thought the words had different pronunciations depending on the intent. I must be out of the loop.
I haven't a clue what that line is supposed to mean, but I think contentment with the accent on the second syllable is the correct one. Towards the beginning of this, Chesterton says, "Some distinguish these by stressing different syllables." I found that somewhat surprising. Here I thought the words had different pronunciations depending on the intent. I must be out of the loop.
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"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."
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"A small daily task, if it be really daily, will beat the labors of a spasmodic Hercules."
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I took it to be that he was going through the content of pudding and not even appreciating it.
Craig
So my thought was accent on the firs syllable.True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare. The absence of this digestive talent is what makes so cold and incredible the tales of so many people who say they have been “through” things; when it is evident that they have come out on the other side quite unchanged. A man might have gone “through” a plum pudding as a bullet might go through a plum pudding; it depends on the size of the pudding—and the man. But the awful and sacred question is “Has the pudding been through him?” Has he tasted, appreciated, and absorbed the solid pudding, with its three dimensions and its three thousand tastes and smells? Can he offer himself to the eyes of men as one who has cubically conquered and contained a pudding?
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Oh my. Thank you both, Phil and Craig! Chesterton is now PL OK.
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I ran across this great article I'd like to read in The Electrical Experimenter, May 1918. https://archive.org/details/electricalex619181919gern
It's called "A Tight Squeeze For Uncle George", and it's very funny. The author relates how he "almost" invented the greatest special effects apparatus for stage plays ever known. It begins on page 39.
(I know we don't need to pre-claim here, but I'm not able to record it just now, and by posting here, I know I'll be able to find it later.)
It's called "A Tight Squeeze For Uncle George", and it's very funny. The author relates how he "almost" invented the greatest special effects apparatus for stage plays ever known. It begins on page 39.
(I know we don't need to pre-claim here, but I'm not able to record it just now, and by posting here, I know I'll be able to find it later.)
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Hi Devorah, Your "Tight Squeeze" will be welcome when you find time to record. The Electrical Experimenter is a fascinating period magazine circa 1918. I started reading some of the advertisements--the magazine is a mine field of health claims for electrical gadgetry; vials of radium for sale through the mail, etc.-- and I had a hard time stopping. Whether old-time advertisements are "nonfiction" or not--that's a topic better not addressed perhaps (?), but some of them would make reads in and of themselves.mightyfelix wrote: ↑July 7th, 2018, 9:00 pm I ran across this great article I'd like to read in The Electrical Experimenter, May 1918. https://archive.org/details/electricalex619181919gern
It's called "A Tight Squeeze For Uncle George", and it's very funny. The author relates how he "almost" invented the greatest special effects apparatus for stage plays ever known. It begins on page 39.
(I know we don't need to pre-claim here, but I'm not able to record it just now, and by posting here, I know I'll be able to find it later.)
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I actually submitted an advertisement for Strongfortism to the current "Health and Fitness" Coffee Break Collection!Sue Anderson wrote: ↑July 8th, 2018, 4:04 am I started reading some of the advertisements--the magazine is a mine field of health claims for electrical gadgetry; vials of radium for sale through the mail, etc.-- and I had a hard time stopping. Whether old-time advertisements are "nonfiction" or not--that's a topic better not addressed perhaps (?), but some of them would make reads in and of themselves.
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A great choice! Strongfortism, p. 55. featuring a photo of what passed for a "hulk" in those days and promising body building miracles: "No need for you to be listless, dull and logy; no reason for you to feel languid, indolent and always out of sorts.."mightyfelix wrote: ↑July 8th, 2018, 4:39 amI actually submitted an advertisement for Strongfortism to the current "Health and Fitness" Coffee Break Collection!Sue Anderson wrote: ↑July 8th, 2018, 4:04 am I started reading some of the advertisements--the magazine is a mine field of health claims for electrical gadgetry; vials of radium for sale through the mail, etc.-- and I had a hard time stopping. Whether old-time advertisements are "nonfiction" or not--that's a topic better not addressed perhaps (?), but some of them would make reads in and of themselves.
I also liked the ad for the International Correspondence Schools on p. 53, entitled "I Got the Job!":"When (the boss) found I had been studying at home with the International Correspondence Schools he knew I had the right stuff in me--that I was bound to make good. Now we can move over to that house on Oakland Avenue and you can have a maid and take things easy." Both these ads are from the May 1918 issue.
"Natural Man" by Arthur B. Moss pub. 1884.
Link to online text:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43728
Link to recording:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf058_naturalman_moss_rm_128kb.mp3
Length: 38:37
Thanks!
Link to online text:
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/43728
Link to recording:
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf058_naturalman_moss_rm_128kb.mp3
Length: 38:37
Thanks!
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Hi Roger, Thank you for contributing to Vol. 58! I found a short bio of Arthur Moss (1855-1937) in a book by Edward Royale, Popular Freethought in Britain, 1866-1915 https://books.google.com/books?id=xMhRAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA707&dq=arthur+b.+moss&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjl9raJg5XcAhVCiqwKHWv0BfQ4ChDoAQhHMAY#v=onepage&q=arthur%20b.%20moss&f=false
"Moss was a devout Christian until the age of sixteen, when after a dispute with an elder brother, he read Paine's Age of Reason...This was in 1874, when Bradlaugh was beginning the great revival in Secularism. Moss commenced lecturing in South London, out of doors and then indoors, as he was to continue to do for the next thirty-six years."
Thanks for the interesting reading of Moss and his book. You did a great job reading. I only found two errors that should be corrected.
19:54 Vanini was an Atheist. For their heresies Telesio and Oampanella were imprisoned
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32:42 One Stephenson is worth a thousand theologians; one Edison of more value to the world than all the gods that men's imagination have ever pictured. You said goods
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19:54 Vanini was an Atheist. For their heresies Telesio and Oampanella were imprisoned
should be Campanella
32:42 One Stephenson is worth a thousand theologians; one Edison of more value to the world than all the gods that men's imagination have ever pictured. You said goods
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Good research job, Sue. Thanks for the link and the info on Moss.
Also thanks for the fast PL turnaround, and for locating the errors, soupy.
Hopefully they have now been corrected, and the file has been re-uploaded, ready for a spot PL at your leisure.
Thanks again!
Also thanks for the fast PL turnaround, and for locating the errors, soupy.
Hopefully they have now been corrected, and the file has been re-uploaded, ready for a spot PL at your leisure.
Thanks again!
-- Roger .... pushing on the door of life marked "pull"
Good job on corrections Roger
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Here it is! This one was a lot of fun!
"A Tight Squeeze for Uncle George" by Thomas Reed
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf058_tightsqueezeunclegeorge_reed_da_128kb.mp3
https://archive.org/details/electricalex619181919gern (Begins on page 39.)
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"A Tight Squeeze for Uncle George" by Thomas Reed
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf058_tightsqueezeunclegeorge_reed_da_128kb.mp3
https://archive.org/details/electricalex619181919gern (Begins on page 39.)
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Thank you, Devorah!mightyfelix wrote: ↑July 11th, 2018, 1:21 pm Here it is! This one was a lot of fun!
"A Tight Squeeze for Uncle George" by Thomas Reed