British philosopher, Anthony M. Ludovici, said that this text “is unquestionably Nietzsche’s opus magnum.” However, he warns the reader that since “the book with the most mysterious, startling, or suggestive title, will always stand the best chance of being purchased by those who have no other criteria to guide them in their choice than the aspect of a title-page … ‘Thus Spake Zarathustra’ is almost always the first and often the only one of Nietzsche’s books that falls into the hands of the uninitiated.” He therefore recommends reading this text alongside some scholarly annotations, which Ludovici gratefully supplies in the volume read here. To keep with Ludovici’s intention, the reader of this version includes these annotations (where available) immediately after the reading. (jvanstan)
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Thanks so much, MaryAnn! I plan to start uploading tracks this week
Quick question: Since I will be reading Ludovici's annotations, should we add something like "annotated" or "(with annotations by A.M. Ludovici)" to the title?
Gutenberg doesn't say anything about the annotations in the book title and doesn't list Ludovici as an author. Definitely mention in the book summary that the recording includes the annotationsand identify Ludovici as the author of those. I'll check on the other version of this work in our catalog to see if it included the annotations. If it didn't, then I think adding "with annotations" (or something similar) to the book title would help listeners find the version that they wanted to listen to.
Thanks, Siler! I use a condenser mic and PreSonus AudioBox interface, then process the audio files with Audacity. I try to do as little processing as possible (just noise reduction, light-touch dynamics compression, and normalization).
Hope that helps
John
sweaver wrote: ↑July 30th, 2020, 9:37 am
P.S. I'm looking at different settups for recording. What mic/equipment did you use to record that section? It sounded really clean!