COMPLETE: Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 102 - jo

[Sue Anderson]

Hello!

Could I reserve a spot?

This will be my fist solo recording (I've been a part of a group collection, just not solo).
I'd love to read the short story "The Sword of Wood, a story by G.K.Chesterton", if I could?

It doesn't appear to be in Project Gutenburg yet but here's a link to it in HathiTrust - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001418095

I've read a number of the "first time" posts, so I think I should be good to give it a go. Do I just upload the recording?

I'm not sure I have a page url, but my name in the system is just Holls.

Hi Holls, This selection by G.K. Chesterton looks to fit best in a fiction collection, so I've transferred your post to the Short Story Collection, Vol. 109. Please looks for a response from the book coordinator of that collection here:
viewtopic.php?p=2293601#p2293601

Best wishes,

[Holls]

Hello!

Could I reserve a spot?

This will be my fist solo recording (I've been a part of a group collection, just not solo).
I'd love to read the short story "The Sword of Wood, a story by G.K.Chesterton", if I could?

It doesn't appear to be in Project Gutenburg yet but here's a link to it in HathiTrust - https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/001418095

I've read a number of the "first time" posts, so I think I should be good to give it a go. Do I just upload the recording?

I'm not sure I have a page url, but my name in the system is just Holls.

Hi Holls, This selection by G.K. Chesterton looks to fit best in a fiction collection, so I've transferred your post to the Short Story Collection, Vol. 109. Please looks for a response from the book coordinator of that collection here:
viewtopic.php?p=2293601#p2293601

Best wishes,

Oh, of course! Apologies for misreading the collection title. Thank you so much for directing me to the correct location!

[mitteldorf]

Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena called Spiritual, 1880-83
William Crookes
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_EnquiryIntoPhenomenaSpiritual_Crookes_jjm_128k.mp3
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notes_of_an_Enquiry_Into_the_Phenomena_C/Mu1fAAAAcAAJ
60 min

[Sue Anderson]

Notes of an Enquiry into the Phenomena called Spiritual, 1880-83
William Crookes
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_EnquiryIntoPhenomenaSpiritual_Crookes_jjm_128k.mp3
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Notes_of_an_Enquiry_Into_the_Phenomena_C/Mu1fAAAAcAAJ
60 min

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_enquiryintophenomenaspiritual_cookes_jm_128kb.mp3

Hi Mitteldorf, Thanks for this intriguing selection, which touches on the unconventional interests of a 19th century scientist. I see from Wikipedia that, besides Cookes' cathod-ray studies, he also discovered the element thallium!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Crookes.

I have marked your reading PL OK!

For future reference, LibriVox recently stated a rule that readers "may not add an audio introduction or editorial comment" to their recordings. https://wiki.librivox.org/index.php?title=Recording_%26_Text_Policies#Our_policy_on_text_sources. So, even though what you said by way of introduction was quite useful, it couldn't remain in the recording. This time, I just removed the intro and the reference to archive.org from the recording for you.

The other thing for next time is that there are no capital letters in file names. See #2 in the instructions...

I enjoyed the listen, indeed was rather charmed by the tired pencil that failed to produce any automatic writing. "I ...expressed a wish to witness the actual prodution of a written message...A pencil and some sheets of paper had been lying on the center of the table; presently the pencil rose up on its point, and after advancing by hesitating jerks to the paper fell down...After three unsuccessful attempts, a small wooden lath, which was lying near upon the table slid towards the pencil and rose a few inches from the table; the pencil rose again, and propping itself against the lath, the two together made an effort to mark the paper. [The pencil] fell...After a third trial, an alphabetic message told us "We have tried to do as you asked, but our power is exhausted."

[flavo5000]

The Animated Cartoon by Ernest Callenbach
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_animatedcartoon_callenbach_bt_128kb.mp3
11:51
source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0058383431&seq=5

Here's a neat one. It should've been called The American Animated Cartoon though.

[Sue Anderson]

The Animated Cartoon by Ernest Callenbach
https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_animatedcartoon_callenbach_bt_128kb.mp3
11:51
source: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.l0058383431&seq=5

Here's a neat one. It should've been called The American Animated Cartoon though.

Hi flavo500, Thanks for bringing Ernest Callenbach's name to the LibriVox catalog! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ernest_Callenbach

Callenbach's analysis of the film cartoon viewed as art form should have special appeal to listeners, now that the original 1928 version of Mickey Mouse is PD. https://time.com/6551496/mickey-mouse-public-domain-steamboat-willie/

Here's a neat one. It should've been called The American Animated Cartoon though.

The typewritten article actually has a general title "The American Film" typed in the upper right corner, so I was able to modify the title for you.

PD OK!

[Piotrek81]

I was wondering if I could post here a chapter of a longer non-fiction book, namely one of the chapters of "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronisław Malinowski https://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp The points which I want to get your opinion about are: the author's frequent use of references to graphic elements (e.g "see Plate X" "comp. Map V"). If you allow me to contribute it here, would you like me to keep those (which is my preferred idea) or skip them? Also, the text does, from time to time, mention the content of the further chapters (e.g "The further complication in the repayment of these solicitary gifts and a few more technicalities and technical expressions connected herewith will be given later on in Chapter IV.") Is this OK?

[Sue Anderson]

I was wondering if I could post here a chapter of a longer non-fiction book, namely one of the chapters of "Argonauts of the Western Pacific" by Bronisław Malinowski https://archive.org/details/argonautsofthewe032976mbp The points which I want to get your opinion about are: the author's frequent use of references to graphic elements (e.g "see Plate X" "comp. Map V"). If you allow me to contribute it here, would you like me to keep those (which is my preferred idea) or skip them? Also, the text does, from time to time, mention the content of the further chapters (e.g "The further complication in the repayment of these solicitary gifts and a few more technicalities and technical expressions connected herewith will be given later on in Chapter IV.") Is this OK?

Hi Piotrek, A chapter from Malinowski's Argonauts of the Western Pacific would be great for the Short Nonfiction Collection. Apparently we don't have anything yet in the LibriVox catalog by Malinowski!

"Bronisław Kasper Malinowski (Polish: [brɔˈɲiswaf maliˈnɔfskʲi]; 7 April 1884 – 16 May 1942) was a Polish-British anthropologist and ethnologist whose writings on ethnography, social theory, and field research have exerted a lasting influence on the discipline of anthropology." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82aw_Malinowski

It is ok to read the references to "graphic elements" and "further chapters." I think that mentioning the photographs might actually tempt the listener to look at the book on-line.

Would you please read from this edition of the text: https://archive.org/details/argonautsofweste00mali/page/4/mode/1up?view=theater. This is the first 1922 edition, which is from the New York Public Library and is clearly in the public domain. ( The edition you mention is from 1932, and was uploaded by Osmania University in India)

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An aside, I decided to look at Hathi Trust to see what they had by Malinowski, and came up with another Polish writer, a novelist, who isn't in the LibriVox catalog: Eliza Orzeszko (1841-1910)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orzeszkowa-orzeszko-elizadeg
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17333878/

How I stumbled on Orzeszko is that she wrote a novel called The Argonauts, translated into English in 1901! https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b597872&seq=9

[Piotrek81]

Would you please read from this edition of the text: https://archive.org/details/argonautsofweste00mali/page/4/mode/1up?view=theater. This is the first 1922 edition, which is from the New York Public Library and is clearly in the public domain. ( The edition you mention is from 1932, and was uploaded by Osmania University in India)

-------------------
An aside, I decided to look at Hathi Trust to see what they had by Malinowski, and came up with another Polish writer, a novelist, who isn't in the LibriVox catalog: Eliza Orzeszko (1841-1910)
https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/orzeszkowa-orzeszko-elizadeg
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17333878/

How I stumbled on Orzeszko is that she wrote a novel called The Argonauts, translated into English in 1901! https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.$b597872&seq=9

Somehow, I managed to misread the publication date as 1923 :O Thanks for finding a suitable edition And, yes, I know of Eliza Orzeszkowa. Her novel "Nad Niemnem" (" On the Neman )" is a required reading in high school, but I don't think I've read anything else by her.

[Piotrek81]

Hi, just FYI. I've got the section ready but I'm not sure yet what do with it. Reading it, it does seem to me that just sticking it (chapter 3 of a book, as it is) in this collection, it would probably feel too abrupt... assuming anyone would be interested in listening to it, that is I think I'll just launch a solo. I tried that 10 years ago, but then abandoned the project, nibbled all over the place and, as such, hardly salvageable. Maybe now I'll be more consistent

[Sue Anderson]

Hi, just FYI. I've got the section ready but I'm not sure yet what do with it. Reading it, it does seem to me that just sticking it (chapter 3 of a book, as it is) in this collection, it would probably feel too abrupt... assuming anyone would be interested in listening to it, that is I think I'll just launch a solo. I tried that 10 years ago, but then abandoned the project, nibbled all over the place and, as such, hardly salvageable. Maybe now I'll be more consistent

No problem! If dipping back into Malinowski has inspired a solo, go for it!

[Availle]

Thanks for reserving me a spot!
Here's my contribution, quite the difference to my usual fare.

"Dining Out" by Gelett Burgess
from "The Romance of the Commonplace"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49285

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_diningout_burgess_ava_128kb.mp3
7:53

[Sue Anderson]

Thanks for reserving me a spot!
Here's my contribution, quite the difference to my usual fare.

"Dining Out" by Gelett Burgess
from "The Romance of the Commonplace"
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/49285

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_diningout_burgess_ava_128kb.mp3
7:53

Availle, Thanks for this humorous essay! Actually, I do see see some connection with one of your interests -- astronomy. Burgess' "comet" is, I suppose, what we would now call the "life of the party."

PL OK!

[Availle]

I like the way you think!

Thanks for PLing, glad you liked it!

[Steve]

How The Wheels Of A Watch Go Around

Eva March Tappan (1854 – 1930)

https://librivox.org/uploads/knotyouraveragejo/snf102_wheelsofwatch_tappan_scc_128kb.mp3

https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/28569/pg28569-images.html

16:31

Steve