COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection Vol 069 - jo

soupy · Post by **soupy** » August 18th, 2019, 4:59 pm

Tatlings: Epigrams (1922) is PLOK

Craig

soupy · Post by **soupy** » August 18th, 2019, 7:21 pm

Your two readings are PLOK Chad

Just one thought about Florence Nightengale's piece.

Do you think you should say: From NOTES ON NURSING: WHAT IT IS, AND WHAT IT IS NOT. ? at the beginning or end.

Craig

Anitazz · Post by **Anitazz** » August 19th, 2019, 7:05 am

I've sent a contribution about the Chicago Fire.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_letterfromfire_foster_asm_128kb.mp3 (28:24)
from: A Letter from the Fire: being an account of the great Chicago fire, written in 1871
by: Thomas D. Foster (1847-1915)
source: https://archive.org/details/letterfromfirebe00fost

Anita

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » August 19th, 2019, 8:24 am

Anitazz wrote: ↑August 19th, 2019, 7:05 am I've sent a contribution about the Chicago Fire.

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_letterfromfire_foster_asm_128kb.mp3 (28:24)
from: A Letter from the Fire: being an account of the great Chicago fire, written in 1871
by: Thomas D. Foster (1847-1915)
source: https://archive.org/details/letterfromfirebe00fost

Anita

Thank you, Anita!

I think this account of the Chicago Fire will make an interesting "companion piece" in vol. 069 to Availle's account of the destruction caused by the eruption of Mt. Asama.

You read very well!

soupy · Post by **soupy** » August 19th, 2019, 2:52 pm

The Great Chicago Fire, A Letter is PLOK

Thanks Anita

Craig

Grothmann · Post by **Grothmann** » August 21st, 2019, 8:05 pm

Hi

The Most Popular Book Of The Month
By Robert C. Benchley
Read by Dale Grothmann
Time 9:25 (beginning of file to end of file)

Audio at --
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_moztpopularbook_benchley_dg_128kb.mp3

Text at --
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/37660

His review of Russian Literature is exactly the way I felt when I had to read it in College.....

Thanks
Dale

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » August 22nd, 2019, 4:15 am

Grothmann wrote: ↑August 21st, 2019, 8:05 pm Hi

The Most Popular Book Of The Month
By Robert C. Benchley
Read by Dale Grothmann

His review of Russian Literature is exactly the way I felt when I had to read it in College.....

Thanks
Dale

Hi Dale, thanks for this contribution!

For me, in college, it was Henry James...

soupy · Post by **soupy** » August 22nd, 2019, 5:11 am

The most popular book is PLOK

Thanks Dale

Craig

soupy · Post by **soupy** » August 22nd, 2019, 8:30 am

Of Fossil Shells and Other Extraneous Fossils
by Oliver Goldsmith

https://archive.org/details/ahistoryearthan06goldgoog/page/n44

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_fossilshells_goldsmith_cc_128kb.mp3

16:23

Craig

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » August 22nd, 2019, 9:25 am

soupy wrote: ↑August 22nd, 2019, 8:30 am Of Fossil Shells and Other Extraneous Fossils
by Oliver Goldsmith

https://archive.org/details/ahistoryearthan06goldgoog/page/n44

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_fossilshells_goldsmith_cc_128kb.mp3

16:23

Craig

Craig, Thanks for this questioning essay by Goldsmith about the origin of fossils!

It's interesting to see how speculative thinking about causation can lead down such varied paths.

There is only one place to fix (if you want to; I'm willing to let it go). And that is, at 3:00, where you quote the footnote marked * (Woodward's Essay) instead of the footnote marked + (Lowth. Abridg. Phil. Trans. vol. II, p. 426). Maybe just leave out the reference entirely??

Off topic: Your latest LibriVox signature has me as flummoxed as did your last one. What is the ingratitude that is here plaguing Kierkegaard?

soupy · Post by **soupy** » August 22nd, 2019, 10:03 am

I removed it. Thanks Sue

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_fossilshells_goldsmith_cc_128kb.mp3

6:15

The whole quote is from his Four Upbuilding Discourses December 6, 1843 published in his Eighteen Upbuilding Discourses 1843-1844 p. 117

What had been his eye’s delight, his eyes craved to see again and his ingratitude punished him by inducing him to believe it to be more beautiful than it had ever been. What his soul delighted in, it now thirsted for, and ingratitude punished him by picturing it to him as more delightful than it had ever been. What he once had been able to do, he now wanted to be able to do again, and ingratitude punished him with fantasies that had never had any truth. Then he condemned his soul, living, to be starved out in the insatiable craving of the lack.

He's talking about experience - a good experience that one has - and the desire for the repetiton of that experience in the exact same way. It doesn't come to the standard of the first so it develops a yearning in the experiencer for that sameness that punishes him or her. The yearner doesn't think he is punishing himself but thinks someone else is standing in the way. He was talking about Job from the Old Testament.

Kierkegaard published a book that he named Repetition Oct 6, 1843 that addressed the same phenomenon. Here a psychiatrist was trying to prove that repetition does exist and Kierkegaard tries to prove that it doesn't. He thinks people rely on memory and that memory creates illusions that make them become ungrateful for the thing they did get.

Craig

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » August 22nd, 2019, 10:29 am

Whew... Thanks, Craig!

PL OK.

BettyB · Post by **BettyB** » August 22nd, 2019, 7:33 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_publicschools_northend_bbs_128kb.mp3

Time is 7.04

The Public Schools of Today by Mary H. Northend

from The Boston Cooking School Magazine October 1906

https://archive.org/details/bostoncookingsch19hill_5/page/n175

BettyB

BettyB · Post by **BettyB** » August 22nd, 2019, 7:57 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf069_artofpacking_hough_bbs_128kb.mp3

Time is 8.20

The Art of Packing by Katherine Hamilton Hough
from The Boston Cooking School Magazine June-July 1906

https://arcgive.org/details/bostoncookingsch19hill_5/page/18

BettyB

Sue Anderson · Post by **Sue Anderson** » August 23rd, 2019, 4:26 am

BettyB wrote: ↑August 22nd, 2019, 7:33 pm

The Public Schools of Today by Mary H. Northend

from The Boston Cooking School Magazine October 1906

BettyB

Hi Betty, Thanks for this!

It was interesting to me to see that so much of the "progressive" ideas about education that I suffered through in junior high were already in place in the early 1900's. "Women's studies" 1950's style included bed making and how to wash dishes (begin by washing the relatively clean silverware and end with the greasy pots, all in the same pan of dish water). The jr. high school, which was brand new the year I entered it now sports "weapon-free zone" signage at the doors. I have no idea what they teach there.