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eldritchhobbitI'm back from a most productive and enjoyable experience in DC, and I'll be catching up shortly.
In the meantime, a quick note: as I've been compiling a list of unabridged audio versions of the texts assigned in my upcoming "Science Fiction, Part 1" seminar for my students, I discovered that there's not a convenient and free reading of Edgar Allan Poe's wickedly satirical and clever 1859 short story "Mellonta Tauta" online. (The title translates as "These things are in the future" -- an appropriate sentiment, as the story is set in the year 2848.) I decided to remedy this and record my own.
Here, free for adoption, is my narration of Poe's "Mellonta Tauta." If you listen, I hope you enjoy!
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febobe, and happy early birthday to ghani_atreides, gamgeefest, and janissa11! May all of you enjoy a brilliant day and a wonderful year to come, my friends.
Talking of drag-ropes -- our own, it seems, has this moment knocked a man overboard from one of the small magnetic propellers that swarm in ocean below us -- a boat of about six thousand tons, and, from all accounts, shamefully crowded. These diminutive barques should be prohibited from carrying more than a definite number of passengers. The man, of course, was not permitted to get on board again, and was soon out of sight, he and his life-preserver. I rejoice, my dear friend, that we live in an age so enlightened that no such a thing as an individual is supposed to exist. It is the mass for which the true Humanity cares.
- "Mellonta Tauta," Edgar Allan Poe
In the meantime, a quick note: as I've been compiling a list of unabridged audio versions of the texts assigned in my upcoming "Science Fiction, Part 1" seminar for my students, I discovered that there's not a convenient and free reading of Edgar Allan Poe's wickedly satirical and clever 1859 short story "Mellonta Tauta" online. (The title translates as "These things are in the future" -- an appropriate sentiment, as the story is set in the year 2848.) I decided to remedy this and record my own.
Here, free for adoption, is my narration of Poe's "Mellonta Tauta." If you listen, I hope you enjoy!
Last but certainly not least, happy birthday to
febobe, and happy early birthday to ghani_atreides, gamgeefest, and janissa11! May all of you enjoy a brilliant day and a wonderful year to come, my friends.Talking of drag-ropes -- our own, it seems, has this moment knocked a man overboard from one of the small magnetic propellers that swarm in ocean below us -- a boat of about six thousand tons, and, from all accounts, shamefully crowded. These diminutive barques should be prohibited from carrying more than a definite number of passengers. The man, of course, was not permitted to get on board again, and was soon out of sight, he and his life-preserver. I rejoice, my dear friend, that we live in an age so enlightened that no such a thing as an individual is supposed to exist. It is the mass for which the true Humanity cares.
- "Mellonta Tauta," Edgar Allan Poe
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Date: 2012-08-06 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-12 05:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-08-09 06:56 pm (UTC)I have returned to my Octopus Books complete edition of Poe again and again.
I was wondering if you have read The Weird, that excellent 1100+ page anthology that came out this year. I am on about page 950.
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Date: 2012-08-12 05:48 pm (UTC)I've read wonderful reviews of The Weird, and it's on my "to read" list. Are you enjoying it so far?
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Date: 2012-08-13 02:27 am (UTC)Apropos of nothing, my daughter is a budding editor and has been doing a lot of things on Youtube. I thought you might get a kick out of this brief Doctor Who/Sherlock thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-PGiMaJhhs
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Date: 2012-08-17 02:39 pm (UTC)Also, I laughed out loud over your daughter's video. Such a CLEVER mashup! Very well done indeed. Two thumbs up. Thanks for sharing!
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Date: 2012-08-20 02:51 am (UTC)Please check audio Poe's link
Date: 2012-08-12 03:38 am (UTC)of Poe's "Mellonta Tauta."
Ross
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Date: 2012-08-12 05:51 pm (UTC)Re: Please check audio Poe's link
Date: 2012-08-12 11:26 pm (UTC)I have not read this Poe story, very fun.
Ross
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