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So, I now have the English translation of the first bit of my French nonsense done too. I'm in the midst of emailing it all to Hobbes so he can upload it for me.
Last night, I amused my sister by reading her some of the funnier chapters from my novel. I recorded three of them, but only one was still there in the morning (the other two files "couldn't find" my voice track ). So, for now, I have chapter 15, and will re-do some of the other chapters if there's interest.
My question for you is- do you like funny or serious?
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I like funny. But that's just me. (You may notice that several of my contributions are humorous. )
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OK, mine are in the database as URLs. I don't know if Hobbes has had time yet to upload them, but at least that's the address they will be at.
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Dragon, sending you White Nights now. We will see if it alone is too big to send in one message. It's around 13Mb.
The last line actually goes like this, "Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of a man's life?" I don't think I said it right cause my eyes were so blurred that I couldn't read it properly.
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Hobbes, dear, perhaps it will take a few minutes since it's so big. It hasn't come back to me or anything. Do you still not have it?
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"The Man Who Counted" is awesome! I particularly love it, twinky, when you laugh. I want more! The hotel one was pretty straight interpolation. I wasn't so amazed by that solution as the Wazir was. But all of them are just great. Who wrote this story and when? The flavor of the culture that comes through is wonderful, as are the individual puzzles.
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Okay, Annie, that passage from the novel was wonderful! It reminds me of Jane Austen. How cruel of her, though, to do that. Did you not think?
Hobbes, the jokes are great. I laughed out loud about the snakes.
How do I get copies of the stuff that's linked in the database? If I can listen to it I should be able to download it, right? Can someone tell me the trick? If it's an actual link I can right click and choose "Save Target As", but if it's just a URL listed and I put it in my browser address line, I get to a quicktime slider thingy that lets me listen but I don't know how to make a copy from that point. I'm sure I'm just being dense, but can anyone tell me how to do that? I want to save them to my own hard drive so they don't go away when people graduate or change servers or whatever.
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I'm trying to catch up, so just now responding to stuff that happened days ago... but I remember now talking to you on the phone Hobbes! That would explain, I guess, why your voice sounded just like I imagined it would. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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Hobbes, Gravity's Rainbow is too quiet for me to hear. I can almost catch most of it but not quite enough to be able to follow. Is there any way to get a bit more volume? I've got mine pegged on this end.
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Oooh, take good care of that throat. I sent two messages each < 10 Mb this evening to your gmail account and they've not been returned or anything. Would you like me to try to resend? I bet there's just a delay somewhere and you'll get them soon, but I'll be glad to resend if you think that will help.
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I've just added the first four chapters of The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint-Exupery. I have a suggestion if it's not too late. Could we add a field for running time in the Yahoo database? I can see that being very useful for those who are deciding which they want to hear. This latest one runs 15:11.
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Annie, I love Fraternite, especially the French version. Your french sounds wonderful, and I love listening to things in a language I don't understand. It gives it a mysterious quality, you pick up words here and there, and the essence flitters around you. Perhaps I will read my favorite storybook in Spanish, when I'm done with The Little Prince. Posts: 6246 | Registered: Aug 2004
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ketchupqueen, I don't think you've sent me anything. Please can I have all that you've recorded so far?
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Hobbes, sending you the first 4 chapters of The Little Prince right now. And whenever you make something I want it as well.
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Well, given how long it took for part 1, do you want to wait and give it a bit more time? Or should I resend?
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Oh, wow, that's so cool! It sounds very authentic. I was sure it was written by someone in Baghdad in the 6th c. or something.
I've now available the next installment of The Little Prince (chapters 5-9, running time 16:34). This edition was given to me by Grisha, by the way, and it's the original translation into English, which I vastly prefer to the more recent one which is all that is currently in print. He found it for me in a used bookshop. It was such an awesome present!
Perhaps someone who can read French will read the original for us. That would be so great!
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I'm practicing Le Petit Prince. My French diction is rusty. I'll need to read over the segments a few times before I'll be able to record a passable version.
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Oh, I adore the Little Prince! When I get some ansible time, I'll request it from you, Tatiana. Did you see the opera version of it? It was on PBS a couple weeks ago. My 8 and 10 year old sisters even sat through it, and that's saying a lot for an opera.
And that particular passage of my novel is the only one that's pretty much totally fictional, if that makes you feel better about the cruelty. Though, it is something those two people would totally do.
I have chapters 2 and 3 of Fraternite done, but still need to send them and also translate them.
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I didn't see the opera version. What did you think of it? For me the book is absolutely perfect, a wonderful jewel of light, and I can't imagine any other version of it coming close. But as an introduction for those who have yet to discover the book, I suppose any other form would work.
I would love to hear it read in French. I have it in Spanish but it's far too hard for me. My Spanish is not good.
The book I want to read in Spanish is La Verdadera Historia de los Tres Cerditos, the true story of the three little pigs by S. Lobo, the wolf. It's hilarious and way better in Spanish than in English, I think. The wolf seems so Latin to me. I can't believe he's an English-speaking wolf at all, I was astonished when I found out the book was originally written in English.
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Okay, lots more stuff has become available while hatrack's been down. Check out the database on the Yahoo group here for more information. Anyone's welcome to join the group.
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