[OPEN] Essays Collection #02 - rap

elsieselwyn · Post by **elsieselwyn** » May 25th, 2024, 5:45 pm

Success in Fiction by James Payn (1830-1898)

file: https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_successinfiction_payne_es_128kb.mp3 (28:46)
text: https://archive.org/details/jstor-25118484/page/n1/mode/2up

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 25th, 2024, 7:23 pm

Thank you, Elsie. I may not get to this tomorrow, but I'm looking forward to it. Happy Memorial Day to you.

elsieselwyn · Post by **elsieselwyn** » May 26th, 2024, 4:03 pm

msfry wrote: ↑May 25th, 2024, 7:23 pm Thank you, Elsie. I may not get to this tomorrow, but I'm looking forward to it. Happy Memorial Day to you.

No rush on the PL. Happy Memorial Day!

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 27th, 2024, 1:51 pm

Success In Fiction is PL OK. Food for thought and nicely read. Thank you, Elsie. And I learned a new word, which you pronounced correctly!

puisne
/pyoo͞′nē/
adjective
(obsolete) Later in age, time, etc.; subsequent.
(obsolete) Puny; petty; unskilled.
(Law) Younger or inferior in rank; junior; associate
a chief justice and three puisne justices of the Court of Common Pleas; the puisne barons of the Court of Exchequer.

VOgalUS · Post by **VOgalUS** » May 28th, 2024, 8:45 pm

msfry wrote: ↑May 1st, 2024, 8:57 am
VOgalUS wrote: ↑May 1st, 2024, 8:47 am Hi msfry,

I found this elsewhere on the site and it was suggested to read it as an essay -

Can the Church Lead? (1942)
An essay on the place of the Church in modern society.
https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nnc2.ark:/13960/t98702g7n

I'd like to narrate it.
Sounds fascinating, and PD! I look forward to adding it to the collection. P.S. I'm soloing Buck's "The Mother" at the moment. She's an astute writer. Enjoy!

Here it is https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_title_buck_ec_128kb.mp3 17:04

Funny this problem continues.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 29th, 2024, 10:40 am

PL Notes on Can The Church Lead?

A beautifully clear, concise reading. Thank you Ellen. Only one issue: your file name must replace "title" with the actual title "canchurchlead"
(we usually drop a, an, the)

Yes the problem will always continue, but "peace on earth, good will toward men" is an admirable personal goal to strive for. Alas that seems to require declaring war on war -- quite a conundrum.

VOgalUS wrote: ↑May 28th, 2024, 8:45 pm Here it is https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_title_buck_ec_128kb.mp3 17:04

Funny this problem continues.

VOgalUS · Post by **VOgalUS** » May 29th, 2024, 10:51 am

msfry wrote: ↑May 29th, 2024, 10:40 am PL Notes on Can The Church Lead?

A beautifully clear, concise reading. Thank you Ellen. Only one issue: your file name must replace "title" with the actual title "canchurchlead"
(we usually drop a, an, the)

Yes the problem will always continue, but "peace on earth, good will toward men" is an admirable personal goal to strive for. Alas that seems to require declaring war on war -- quite a conundrum.
VOgalUS wrote: ↑May 28th, 2024, 8:45 pm Here it is https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_title_buck_ec_128kb.mp3 17:04

Funny this problem continues.

I got this right as it was posted - https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_canchurchlead_buck_ec_128kb.mp3 17:04

msfry · Post by **msfry** » May 29th, 2024, 10:54 am

Perfect! PL OK.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 2nd, 2024, 11:35 am

I have uploaded Mary The Mythical Madonna. KevinS has agreed to PL it, and is planning to record the sequel to this essay as time permits.

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48872/pg48872-images.html#MARY_THE_MYTHICAL_MADONNA

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 4th, 2024, 11:03 pm

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_marymotherofjesus_stowe_ks_128kb.mp3 (42:35)

Michele, you have the metadata for this already, don't you?

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 5th, 2024, 6:15 am

KevinS wrote: ↑June 4th, 2024, 11:03 pm https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_marymotherofjesus_stowe_ks_128kb.mp3 (42:35)

Michele, you have the metadata for this already, don't you?

Yes, I forgot to include the link I read from in my post above, since added.
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/48872/pg48872-images.html#MARY_THE_MYTHICAL_MADONNA
Yours is the essay following mine.

Thanks, I look forward to listening.

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 5th, 2024, 2:04 pm

PL Notes Mary The Mother of Jesus

At 11:25, begins a background clatter, sounds like raindrops on a tin roof maybe? It continues almost to the end.
HINT: At about 11:45 I grabbed about 3/4 seconds of it, pasted several clips together to get a 4 second noise profile, and did Noise Reduction on a portion. It helped a little. I tried de-clicking. It worked between phrases but not within them. As your volume is at 91.9, you could perhaps de-Amplify -2.5 to 89.4, and reduce that chatter that way. Not sure what else you might do.
18:17 We catch a glimpse at one of the last, you say . . . at once, of the last
35:45 missing phrase (bold) ". . . moving daily among friends that he loved and to whom he knew that his career was to be . . ."

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 7th, 2024, 7:52 pm

Ready for Spot Check. I hope I'm done all this correctly.

https://librivox.org/uploads/rapunzelina/essays2_marymotherofjesus_stowe_ks_128kb.mp3 (42:45)

msfry · Post by **msfry** » June 8th, 2024, 8:06 am

Mary Mother of Jesus is PL OK. No more clicking in the background.

KevinS · Post by **KevinS** » June 9th, 2024, 10:40 am

msfry wrote: ↑June 8th, 2024, 8:06 am Mary Mother of Jesus is PL OK. No more clicking in the background.

Thank you! I'll have your PL done today. (Must mow the lawn first!)