COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 097 - jo

[Sue Anderson]

Crito
Plato
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf097_crito_plato_tl_128kb.mp3
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1657
44 minutes of audio
This is my first Librivox reading, I included my full name (Taylor Lampasona) with location at the outro.

Since this is my first recording bare with me on quality, but I would appreciate any comments!

Hi TaLampasona,

Welcome to LibriVox and to the Short Nonfiction Collection! For a first time recording, you did a great job! Your recording passed Checker, the app which checks for LibriVox's recording specifications. Your voice is clear, good pacing, and, believe me, you made very few slips for such a difficult and long recording!

There are only a few places that need editing, where what you said deviated sufficiently from the text to make a difference. I'm listing these below. I would appreciate if you would give me the timings where you make these edits, when you post the revised recording. This will make it much easier for me to spot proof listen the edits.

---------Edits Needed

at 24:45 Text reads "Or against those of us who after birth regulate the nuture and education of children, in which you also were trained." You said "Or children, those of us...

40:24 There is an extraneous sentence fragment which is "for your friends will take care of them." This needs to be cut out.

33:29 Text reads "And he who disobeys us is, as we maintain, thrice wrong...
You said "He who obeys us..."

40:37 Text reads: "Perhaps not, if you keep them in a good temper; but if they are out of temper, you will hear many degrading things; you will live, but how? --as the flatterer of all men..." You said "at the flattener of all men..."

Here is the pronunciation of "flatterer" https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=flatterer&op=translate

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One more thing: As IntheDesert mentioned to you, you have the option to use a name in the LibriVox catalog which differs from your forum name. Some people use their real name; some people stick with their forum name. Would you please let me know how you wish to have your name in the catalog. We can also list the URL of a non-commercial blog or website, if you have one.

[aliciajane]

Hi! I'm making my first contribution to the nonfiction collection. I hope I've done everything correctly!

Hospitality
Fanny Fern

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/aliciajane_hospitality_fern_as_128kb.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/40504/pg40504-images.html#HOSPITALITY

5min 31 seconds

Thanks!

[Sue Anderson]

Hi aliciajane,

Welcome to LibriVox and to the Short Nonfiction Collection! This is a delightful--and insightful--small essay on social conventions, as they were seen in the late 19th century. Frankly, I don't think much has changed since then. These comments by Fanny Fern spoke clearly to frustrations I have at times: "...there are so many inconsiderate people, who, provided they gain their point to see you, care little at what sacrifice on your part of time, or at what postponement of imperative duties. They have enough time. So much that they are even puzzled what to do with it; how can it be that you have none, or so little, at the service of friends?"

You have a nice, expressive reading style! Your reading is PL OK!

[TaLampasona]

---------Edits Needed

at 24:45 Text reads "Or against those of us who after birth regulate the nuture and education of children, in which you also were trained." You said "Or children, those of us...

40:24 There is an extraneous sentence fragment which is "for your friends will take care of them." This needs to be cut out.

33:29 Text reads "And he who disobeys us is, as we maintain, thrice wrong...
You said "He who obeys us..."

40:37 Text reads: "Perhaps not, if you keep them in a good temper; but if they are out of temper, you will hear many degrading things; you will live, but how? --as the flatterer of all men..." You said "at the flattener of all men..."

Here is the pronunciation of "flatterer" https://translate.google.com/?sl=en&tl=de&text=flatterer&op=translate

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One more thing: As IntheDesert mentioned to you, you have the option to use a name in the LibriVox catalog which differs from your forum name. Some people use their real name; some people stick with their forum name. Would you please let me know how you wish to have your name in the catalog. We can also list the URL of a non-commercial blog or website, if you have one.
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https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf097_crito_plato_tl_128kb.mp3

Hopefully these edits are okay, I had a difficult time adding them in and making them sound the same as the original recording but I think I will get better about that with time.

The edits are at or around the following times give or take maybe 10 seconds.
Edit 1: 29:40
Edit 2: 40:24
Edit 3: 33:29
Edit 4: 40:33

For the catalogue you can use my full real name which is Taylor Lampasona

Thank you for your help, I appreciate it!

[Sue Anderson]

Hopefully these edits are okay, I had a difficult time adding them in and making them sound the same as the original recording but I think I will get better about that with time.

The edits are at or around the following times give or take maybe 10 seconds.
Edit 1: 29:40
Edit 2: 40:24
Edit 3: 33:29
Edit 4: 40:33

For the catalogue you can use my full real name which is Taylor Lampasona

Thank you for your help, I appreciate it!

Hi TaLampasona, Thank you for the prompt edits! You recording is PL OK!

[aliciajane]

Hi aliciajane,

Welcome to LibriVox and to the Short Nonfiction Collection! This is a delightful--and insightful--small essay on social conventions, as they were seen in the late 19th century. Frankly, I don't think much has changed since then. These comments by Fanny Fern spoke clearly to frustrations I have at times: "...there are so many inconsiderate people, who, provided they gain their point to see you, care little at what sacrifice on your part of time, or at what postponement of imperative duties. They have enough time. So much that they are even puzzled what to do with it; how can it be that you have none, or so little, at the service of friends?"

You have a nice, expressive reading style! Your reading is PL OK!

Thank you so very much! I may delve into some more Fanny Fern in the future. Delighted to be included. -Alicia

[Sue Anderson]

Hi, Here is mine for vol. 097

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf097_cubistart_anonymous_sa_128kb.mp3
Cubist Art Will Be Investigated
Ottumwa Tri-Weekly Courier
April 3, 1913
https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86061215/1913-04-03/ed-1/seq-1/
2:14

I was looking for something to read about the 1913 International Exhibition of Modern Art, which introduced Cubism to the United States. This short newspaper article, which chronicles the Midwest's reaction to the show, has the Illinois legislature sending an investigator from its White-Slave Commission to the Chicago Art Institute to look at the pictures!

~~~~ I'm looking for someone to PL this for me, since as dedicated proof listener (DPL) for the SNF, I can't very well PL my own recording. Thanks in advance!

[HeartsandStars]

Hi Sue, here's another early movie related recording, this one on "The King of Comedy."

Mack Sennett-Laugh Tester: The Man Who Makes the Keystone Comedies, by Harry C. Carr

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf_097_sennett_carr_ak_128kb.mp3

14:08

https://archive.org/details/PhotoplayMagazineMay1915/page/n69/mode/2up

I added "is" to the line "This the ancient ceremony called passing the buck" so it'd make more sense (I assume it was a printing error.) Is that OK?

Thank you,
Andrea

[Sue Anderson]

Hi Sue, here's another early movie related recording, this one on "The King of Comedy."

Mack Sennett-Laugh Tester: The Man Who Makes the Keystone Comedies, by Harry C. Carr

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf_097_sennett_carr_ak_128kb.mp3

14:08

https://archive.org/details/PhotoplayMagazineMay1915/page/n69/mode/2up

I added "is" to the line "This the ancient ceremony called passing the buck" so it'd make more sense (I assume it was a printing error.) Is that OK?

Thank you,
Andrea

Hi Andrea,

Thanks for this article about the pioneering silent film director. Mack Sennett! His one-man-can-do-everything approach certainly couldn't have survived long term. I am always amazed at the number of people it takes to make a movie nowadays, when the credits scroll by at the end of the film.

What struck me, listening to this, was the comment "It is not possible to be really funny without being logical."

I agree with you that the missing "is" was probably a misprint.

PL OK!

[Availle]

Sue, I listened to your file and it's PL OK!

In return, here is my contribution:
The Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Cables
from Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8391

length: 6:22
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf097_auroraborealis_sciam_ava_128kb.mp3

[Sue Anderson]

Sue, I listened to your file and it's PL OK!

In return, here is my contribution:
The Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Cables
from Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8391

length: 6:22
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf097_auroraborealis_sciam_ava_128kb.mp3

Hi Availle,

Thanks for the PL! And thanks for this timely article about the aurora borealis, which I gather from the news was visible in many places earlier this week. The description of the disturbances to telegraph communication by electrical interference from the aurora borealis and thunderstorms was interesting: "dots became dashes, and the spaces were either multiplied in size or number..."

PL OK!

[Alister]

Sue, I listened to your file and it's PL OK!

In return, here is my contribution:
The Aurora Borealis and Telegraph Cables
from Scientific American Supplement, No. 288, July 9, 1881

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8391

length: 6:22
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf097_auroraborealis_sciam_ava_128kb.mp3

Ooohh. Does this cover the Carrington Event?

I've looked (very unsuccessfully) for PD materials on it.

[Availle]

Ooohh. Does this cover the Carrington Event?

I've looked (very unsuccessfully) for PD materials on it.

I'm afraid it doesn't:

The remarkable disturbing influences on telegraph wires and cables of the aurora borealis observed from the 11th to 14th of August, 1880,...

You may be lucky in finding newspapers from around that time, they are bound to report something of that magnitude even though the name would appear only much later in literature.

The wikipedia page points to a number of newspaper articles about the "Aurora from 1859" or something like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Here is an accessible one from 1909:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77351480

[Sue Anderson]

Ooohh. Does this cover the Carrington Event?

I've looked (very unsuccessfully) for PD materials on it.

I'm afraid it doesn't:

The remarkable disturbing influences on telegraph wires and cables of the aurora borealis observed from the 11th to 14th of August, 1880,...

You may be lucky in finding newspapers from around that time, they are bound to report something of that magnitude even though the name would appear only much later in literature.

The wikipedia page points to a number of newspaper articles about the "Aurora from 1859" or something like that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrington_Event

Here is an accessible one from 1909:
https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/77351480

Hi, Alister and Availle,

Your exchange brought back memories of my 2016 stint as BC of the 11th Anniversary of LibriVox Collection, when I was hard pressed to find titles that contained the word "eleven" and I learned sun spots had an eleven-year cycle.

I also recalled that Availle recorded a selection about the sun spots of 1916 for volume 45 of the SNF: https://librivox.org/short-nonfiction-collection-vol-045/

Until this morning, I'd never heard of the Carrington Event, but I read the Wikipedia article about the amateur astronomer Richard Christopher Carrington (1826-1875) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Christopher_Carrington. This led me to the relevant PD accounts--

Hathi has both Carrington's and Hodgson' accounts of September 1, 1859," pp 13ff in volume XX of the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society here:
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.31822020429775&view=1up&seq=21

"While engaged in the forenoon of Thursday, Sept. l, in taking my customary observation of the forms and positions of the solar spots... two patches of intensely bright and white light broke out...being somewhat flurried by the surprise, I hastily ran to call some one to witness the exhibition with me, and on returning within 60 seconds, was mortified to find that it was already much changed and enfeebled..."

Now, hopefully, Alister, you will read these accounts for the SNF!

[Alister]

Now, hopefully, Alister, you will read these accounts for the SNF!

Excellent. I might just do that. . . but not for Volume 98 as my readings are already recorded.

To which I will say no more than that they both originate from the last decade of the 17th Century . But don't tell anyone.