(Complete) The Education of Uncle Paul, by Algernon Blackwood - lt

[Lynnet]

The Education of Uncle Paul, by Algernon Blackwood (1869 - 1951)

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msfry is DPL for this project

Published in 1909, this novel tells the story of Paul Waters, who returns to England, his family and responsibility after living in the Canadian wilderness for twenty years. When he moves in with his widowed sister Margaret and her three children, feeling awkward in adult company and little more than a boy inside, Uncle Paul tries hard to be sensible and mature. Alas, the children spot his childlike nature immediately, love him enthusiastically, and include him on their many "aventures" around the estate, taking him "through the crack" with them to other realms of awareness, and asking him to write "Aventure" stories about what they share together. The novel explores in a charming way, the themes of imagination, grief, loss, time, love, inspiration, the interconnectivity of all things psychical and material, and the search for meaning in life. Algernon brings his own life experiences as mystic, philosopher and outdoorsman into this novel, making it somewhat autobiographical.

Source text (please read only from this text!): https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69668

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Genres for the project: Fantastic Fiction/Horror & Supernatural Fiction

Keywords that describe the book: education, justice, home, steamer

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[msfry]

Wow, this summary is captivating. Let me look quick at the book and see what I might like to read. And perhaps I could offer to DPL, or PL some of it if you, Lynne, are the DPL.

[flavo5000]

Can I take the first two chapters?

[Lynnet]

Can I take the first two chapters?

Sure!

[flavo5000]

Here's chapters 1 & 2:
Ch 1: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/educationofunclepaul_01_blackwood_128kb.mp3
18:04
Ch. 2: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/educationofunclepaul_02_blackwood_128kb.mp3
14:46

[Lynnet]

Here's chapters 1 & 2:
Ch 1: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/educationofunclepaul_01_blackwood_128kb.mp3
18:04
Ch. 2: https://librivox.org/uploads/lynnet/educationofunclepaul_02_blackwood_128kb.mp3
14:46

Thank you

[Indianreader]

Can I record chapters 3 and 4? Thank you

[Lynnet]

Can I record chapters 3 and 4? Thank you

Of course.

[msfry]

...................... And perhaps I could offer to DPL, or PL some of it if you, Lynne, are the DPL.

Lynne, did you see this?

[Lynnet]

...................... And perhaps I could offer to DPL, or PL some of it if you, Lynne, are the DPL.

Lynne, did you see this?

You've been added

[msfry]

Ok, I will start with 1 and 2. Are we sharing, or am I DPL?

[Lynnet]

Ok, I will start with 1 and 2. Are we sharing, or am I DPL?

All yours if you want it

[msfry]

Proof listening notes Sections 1 and 2.

Ben, I noted no errors of the typical kind, but one thing that jarred me was that Paul's voice in Chapter 1 sounds harsh, old, gruff and angry, while the character of Paul as described in Chapter 2 is soft, poetic, shy, introspective. His few lines in Chapter 2 are actually somewhat softer, and as he doesn't have many speaking parts in Chapter 1 and most are at the beginning, I wonder if you would consider re-recording his lines to match this personality?

Lynne, I encourage you to add a descriptive line of Paul's soft character at the beginning of the Summary, to gives our readers a clue as to his character before they record, something like Middle aged Paul Rivers, was still a shy child, it seemed, constitutionally unable to reveal himself, to tell his deep longings, to find expression through any sensible medium. Know you what it is to be a child? etc.........

[flavo5000]

Proof listening notes Sections 1 and 2.

Ben, I noted no errors of the typical kind, but one thing that jarred me was that Paul's voice in Chapter 1 sounds harsh, old, gruff and angry, while the character of Paul as described in Chapter 2 is soft, poetic, shy, introspective. His few lines in Chapter 2 are actually somewhat softer, and as he doesn't have many speaking parts in Chapter 1 and most are at the beginning, I wonder if you would consider re-recording his lines to match this personality?

So this was actually an intentional choice on my part. In the first chapter he's just starting to shed the "America" from him and comes across in the text a little more boisterous (the beginning of the first chapter describes him as "thunder"ing along the stuffy passages shouting).

This section here is toward the end of the chapter is where I see that he begins to soften:

"Then the busy faces of America, now left behind after twenty years, gradually receded, and others, dimly seen through mist, rose above the horizon of his thoughts. And among them he saw that two stood forth with more clearness than the rest. One of these was Dick Messenger, the friend of his boyhood, now dead but a few years; and the other, the face of his sister, Margaret, whom Dick had left a widow, and whose children he would now see for the first time at their country home in the South of England.

The ‘Old Country!’ He repeated the words softly to himself, weaving it like a coloured thread through all his reverie."

And after this is where I soften his voice to reflective his more introspective mood in returning to his homeland.

[msfry]

1 and 2 are PL OK.

Your choice of course, but it misdirected me. I saw him as a grizzly old man much like the one he saw crying ... and why not. His age isn't revealed until the last lines of Chapter 2.

Sometimes we record novels without reading the whole book ahead of time, thus haven't the slightest idea what our characters are really like or how they will turn out. I thought this might be the case here. Our concern is lessened considerably on collaborative novels in that most readers don't do character voices. When they do it becomes harder to maintain consistency across the novel.