Mark, I also am enjoying your commentary, as I have been enjoying your narration. Once the project is complete and catalogued, I'll be recommending to all my friends and relatives to give a listen to the recording, both for its content and for your reading.
Don (DACSoft)
Bringing the Baseball Joe series to audio!
Don, if they take you up on it, they'll be in for a couple dozen hours of extremely convoluted speechery. I'm not sure they would appreciate that!
Personally, the tendency of the authors to keep numbering their points, and also referring to latter and former arguments constantly, argues for reading, rather than listening to, the Papers. It's tough to keep track of just what is being referenced at the moment without being able to search the text.
- Mark
"In narrating everything is simple, but it's the simple things that are difficult." (Apologies to von Clausewitz!) Mark's Librivoxings
The Senate has been continued, through its SIXTH desideratum (and I defy 90% of the public to know that word, and I question Madison's audience, too)! Proclaiming #63!
John Jay finally felt up to contributing... his rheumatizz had dealt him out of much of the effort. And he (briefly) returns for a subject on which he is the superior of the three: the Senate's power to make treaties with foreign nations. As one of the negotiators for the treaty ending the Revolutionary War, he had the inside track on what was necessary.
Well, Hamilton really got his grump on, at the end of #65! Yet, he had some pithy remarks about factions in the Senate rallying to destroy a man's reputation, or save it.
Once again, Hamilton has recourse to the phrase, "all men of good sense will admit that..." But in this essay, he tells how invested in one's own opinions each man is. I suspect he would be offended if someone remarked to him on just that! Herewith is #70!
Paper 70 PL notes:
@06:58 - Missing phrase (in red): ""… privileges of their order. In addition to this motive of union, after the arms of the republic … "
Thank you,
Don (DACSoft)
Bringing the Baseball Joe series to audio!
