COMPLETE SOLO Oscar Wilde from Purgatory by Hester Travers Smith - kiki

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Oscar Wilde from Purgatory by Hester Travers Smith (1868 - 1949).


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Hester Dowden, who wrote under the name Hester Travers Smith, was an Irish spiritualist medium. She claimed to have communicated with the spirits of various celebrities. In Oscar Wilde from Purgatory, she reproduces the text of her "conversations" with the Irish poet and playwright, conducted via a Ouija board and automatic writing. Wilde proves just as talkative after death as he was in life. His spirit revels in the complements paid to his work by Travers Smith and her colleagues, describes how it feels to exist without a body, and pronounces James Joyce's recently published novel Ulysses a "great bulk of filth". Listeners who are primarily interested in the conversations, rather than Travers Smith's lengthy discussion of them, are directed to Chapter 1 and the Appendices. (Rob Marland)
  • Text source (only read from this text!): http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301181.txt
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    Genres for the project: *Non-fiction/Religion/Other religions

    Keywords that describe the book: oscar wilde, spiritualism, psychic, ouija board, medium, seance, automatic writing

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Hi! I will MC this for you - MW coming up in few minutes!

Kristine :)
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Nice, two sections up already!
Mowing this project to the Solos forum... :)
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I am just checking in to say that I am moving house next week: I had hoped to get some more recording done this past month, but I've been a bit busy. I will get back into it in March.
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Thank you for letting us know! And good luck with moving!
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I know that Rob is out for a bit longer, but due back any day. I had some time to kill so took to PL'ing the three uploaded files here.
Rob, you are very good at this. It didn't seem like you had to edit much and were able to do most of this reading in one take.

Section 1: PL OK
Section 2: PL OK
Section 4: PL OK

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Thanks a lot, Bill, that’s a big help.
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Apologies for the long delay while I attempted to make progress with another solo.
Here is section 3 for PL:
https://librivox.org/uploads/kikisaulite/oscarwildepurgatory_03_traverssmith_128kb.mp3
56:08
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That's a long chapter! Was definitely worth waiting for. :)
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Post by NemoR »

Hey Rob!

Was wandering about and stumbled across this ... what a great project!

I PL'd section 5 ... great reading and perfectly PL OK. :clap:

I'd be glad to sign on as DPL for the rest of them as well.
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Section 3 is PL OK as well !

That was flawless ...I don't know how long it took in total to pull that one off, but well done sir!

His comments on Joyce were brilliant, and as I've recorded some of the Sitwell's poems for LV, I had to laugh at this:

Q: What do you think of the Sitwells? ... have you read thier poetry?

Oscar: No, I do not spend my precious hours in catching tadpoles. I only leap into the minds of those who have a certain value. Below this standard, I do not sink!
:lol:
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Thanks a lot, Nemo! That would be a great help.

The remaining chapters are a bit more manageable than chapter 2. I should get at least one done per week from now on.

Yes, some of the stuff 'Wilde' comes out with is great! I don't believe for a second it's genuine, but it's still amazing to think that anyone could fake stuff of this quality.
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