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| The Adventures of Pinocchio,C. Collodi,Chapter 01,https://archive.org/download/adventures_pinocchio_librivox/adventurespinocchio_01_collodi_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/adventures_pinocchio_librivox,302.08,en,832,"This is a Librevox recording. All Librevox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox.org. Recording by Sherry Crowther, Victoria British Columbia Canada. The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Colody, translated by Carol Delac yesa. Chapter 1. How it happened that Master of Cherry, carpenter found a piece of wood that worked and laughed like a child. centuries ago they lived. A king, my little readers, will say immediately. No children, you are mistaken. Once upon a time there was a piece of wood. It was not an expensive piece of wood. Far from it. Just a common block of firewood. One of those thick solid logs that are put on the fire in the winter to make cold rooms cozy and warm. I do not know how this really happened yet the fact remains that one fine day this piece of wood found itself in the shop of an old carpenter. His name was Masterou Antonio, but everybody called him Masterou Cherry, for the tip of his nose was so round and red and shiny that it looked like a ripe cherry. As soon as he saw that piece of wood, Master of Cherry was filled with joy, rubbing his hands together happily, he mumbled half to himself. This has come in the nick of time. I shall use it to make the leg of a table. He grasped the hatchet quickly to peel off the bark and shape the wood. But as he was about to give it the first blow, he stood still with arm-up lifted, for he had heard a wee little voice say in a besieging tone. ""Please be careful. Don't hit me so hard."" With a look of surprise, Sean on Master of Cherry's face, his funny face became funny or still. He turned frightened to eyes about the room to find out where that little voice had come from, and he saw no one. He looked under the bench, no one. He peeped inside the closet, no one. He looked under the bench. No one. He peaked inside the closet. No one. He searched among the shavings. No one. He opened the door to look up and down the street, and still no one. Oh, I see. He said, laughing and scratching his wig. It can easily be seen that I only thought I heard the tiny voice say the words, ""Well, well, to work once more."" He struck a most solemn blow upon the piece of wood. ""Oh, you hurt!"" cried the same far away little voice. Master of Cherry grew in down. His eyes popped out of his head, his mouth wide open, and his tongue hung down on his chin. As soon as he regained the use of his senses, he said trembling and stuttering from fright. ""Where did that voice come from?"" When there is no one around, might it be that this piece of wood has learned to weep and cry like a child, I can hardly believe it. Here it is, a piece of common firewood. Good only to burn in the stove, the same as any other, yet might someone be hidden in it. If so, the words for him all fix him. With these words he grabbed the log with both hands and started to knock it about unmercifully. He threw it to the floor, against the walls of the room, and even up to the ceiling. He listened for the tiny voice to mone and cry, he waited two minutes, nothing. Five minutes. Nothing. 10 minutes. Nothing. Oh, I see. He said, trying bravely to laugh and roughly up his wig with his hand, it can easily be seen. I only imagined I heard the tiny voice. Well, well, to work one more. The poor fellow was scared half-to-death, so he tried to sing a gay song in order to gain courage. He said, aside to'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to be able to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to do it."" He said, ""I'm going to do it."" This time poor master of charity fell as if shot. When he opened his eyes he found himself sitting on the floor. His face had changed. Right had turned even the tip of his nose from red to deepest purple. 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| The Adventures of Pinocchio,C. Collodi,Chapter 02,https://archive.org/download/adventures_pinocchio_librivox/adventurespinocchio_02_collodi_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/adventures_pinocchio_librivox,312.29,en,770,"This is a Librevox recording. All Librevox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox.org. Recording by Sherry Crowther, Victoria British Columbia Canada. The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Colody, translated by Carol Delac yesa. Chapter 2. Master of Cherry gives the piece of wood to his friends, who takes it to make himself a marionette that will dance, fence, and turn some results. In that very instant, allowed Knox sounded on the door, commenced at the carpenter not having an atom of strength left with which to stand up. At the words the door opened, and a dapper little old man came in. His name was Shippetto, but to the boys of the neighborhood, he was Paul and Nina. On account of the way he always wore, which was just the color of yellow corn. Jepetu had a very bad temper. Whoa, to the one who called him Paul and Nina, he became as wild as a beast and no one could sue him, good day master Antonio said, ""Jepetto, what are you doing on the floor?"" I am teaching the ads there A, B, C. Good luck to you. What brought you here, friend, and you, my legs, and it may flatter you to know master Antonio, that I have come to beg for a favor. Here I am at your service, and I am the carpenter raising himself onto his knees. This morning a fine idea came to me. Let's hear it. I thought of making myself a beautiful wooden marion now. it must be wonderful, one that will be able to dance, fence, and turn some results. With it, I intend to go around the world to earn my crest of bread and cup of wine. What do you think of it? Bravo, Polynesia! I cried the same tiny voice which came from no one knew where. On hearing himself called Polynesia, Master was. Reperto turned the color of a red pepper, and facing the carpenter said to him, ""Angryly, why do you insult me?"" ""Who is insulting you?"" ""You called me, Polandina. I did not."" I suppose you think, ""I did. Yet I know it was you."" ""No, yes, no, yes. And growing angry at each moment, they went from words to blows. And finally began to scratch and bite and slap each other. When the fight was over, Master Antonio had Chepetto's yellow wig in his hands, and Chepetto found the carpenter's curly wig in his hands, and the carpenter is currently wig in his mouth. Give me back my wig, showed it to master Antonio in a certainly voice. You return mine and will be friends. The two little old men, each with his own wig back on his own head, shook hands and swore to be friends for the rest of their lives. Well then master Antonio said the carpenter, ""To show he bore him no ill will. What is it you want?"" ""I want a piece of wood to make a marionette. Will you give it to me?"" Master, and Tonya very glad indeed, when immediately to his bench, to get the piece of wood which had frightened him so much, but as he was about to give it to his friend, to get the piece of wood which had frightened him so much, but as he was about to give it to his friend, with a violent jerk it slipped out of his hands and hit against poor jepitals thin legs. Ah, is this the gentle way master Antonio? in which you make your gifts, you have made me almost lame. I swear to you I did not do it. It was I, of course. It is the fault of this piece of wood. You're right, but remember, you were the one to throw it at my legs. I did not throw it. Liar, should I bet you do not insult me or I shall call you Paul and Dina? Idiot. Pulendina. Don't keep. Pulendina. Ugly monkey. Pulendina. ""On hearing himself called Pulendina for the third time, Jepetodah lost his head with rage and threw himself upon the carpenter. Then, in there, they gave each other a sound thrashing. After this fight, Master Antonio had two more scratches on his nose, and his repector had two buttons missing from his coat. Thus having settled their accounts, they shook hands and swore to be good friends for the rest of their lives. Then, the repector took the fine piece of wood, thanked Master Thro Antonio, and lived away towards home. End of chapter 2.","[{""start"": 0, ""end"": 4, ""text"": ""This is a Librevox recording.""}, {""start"": 4, ""end"": 7, ""text"": ""All Librevox recordings are in the public domain.""}, {""start"": 7, ""end"": 15, ""text"": ""For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox.org.""}, {""start"": 15, ""end"": 20, ""text"": ""Recording by Sherry Crowther, Victoria British Columbia Canada.""}, {""start"": 20, ""end"": 27, ""text"": ""The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. 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Good luck to you.""}, {""start"": 95, ""end"": 102, ""text"": ""What brought you here, friend, and you, my legs, and it may flatter you to know master Antonio,""}, {""start"": 102, ""end"": 105, ""text"": ""that I have come to beg for a favor.""}, {""start"": 105, ""end"": 111, ""text"": ""Here I am at your service, and I am the carpenter raising himself onto his knees.""}, {""start"": 111, ""end"": 115, ""text"": ""This morning a fine idea came to me.""}, {""start"": 115, ""end"": 116, ""text"": ""Let's hear it.""}, {""start"": 116, ""end"": 120, ""text"": ""I thought of making myself a beautiful wooden marion now.""}, {""start"": 120, ""end"": 124, ""text"": ""it must be wonderful, one that will be able to dance,""}, {""start"": 124, ""end"": 127, ""text"": ""fence, and turn some results.""}, {""start"": 127, ""end"": 131, ""text"": ""With it, I intend to go around the world to earn my""}, {""start"": 131, ""end"": 135, ""text"": ""crest of bread and cup of wine. 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| The Adventures of Pinocchio,C. Collodi,Chapter 03,https://archive.org/download/adventures_pinocchio_librivox/adventurespinocchio_03_collodi_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/adventures_pinocchio_librivox,434,en,1134,"This is a LibreVox Recording. All LibreVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibreVox.org. Read and Recorded by Betsy Bush, Market Michigan January 2006. The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Colodi translated from the Italian by Carol Della Kiesa. Chapter 3 As soon as he gets home, Jepetto fashions the Marionette and calls it Pinocchio, the first prince of the Marionette. Little as Jepetto's house was, it was neat and comfortable. It was a small room on the ground floor, where they tiny window under the stairway. The furniture could not have been much simpler. A very old chair, a rickety old bed, and a tumble down table. A fire place full of burning logs was painted on the wall opposite the door. Over the fire, there was painted a pot of something which kept boiling happily away and sending up clouds of what looked like real steam. As soon as he reached home, Japan took his tools and began to cut and shape the wood into a marionette. What shall I call him? He said to himself, ""I think I'll call him Pinocchio. This name will make his fortune. I knew a whole family of Pinocchio, the father, Pinocchio, the mother, and Pinocchio, the children. And they were all lucky, the richest of them begged for his living. After choosing the name for his marionette, Japano said seriously to work to make the hair the forehead the eyes. Fancy his surprise when he noticed that these eyes moved and then stared fixedly at him. Japano this felt insulted and said it had been agreed to turn. ""Ogly, would an eyes?"" ""Why do you stay or so?"" There was no answer. After the eyes, Japano made the nose, which began to stretch as soon as finished. It stretched and stretched and stretched. To let became so long, it seemed endless. Poor Japano kept cutting it and cutting it, but the more he cut, the longer grew that important nose. In despair, he left it alone. Next, he made the mouth. No sooner was it finished than it began to laugh and poke fun at him. Stop laughing, such a petal, angrily, but he might as well have spoken to the wall. Stop laughing, I say. He roared in a voice of thunder. The mouth stopped laughing, but it stuck out a long tongue. Not wishing to start an argument, which a petal made believe he saw nothing and went on with his work. After the mouth, he made the chin, then the neck, the shoulders, the stomach, the arms, and the hands. As he was about to put a last touches on the fingertips, the petal felt his wig being pulled off. He glanced up, and what did he see? His yellow wig was in the marionette's hand. ""Penocchio, give me my wig!"" But instead of giving it back, Penocchio put it on his own head, which was half swallowed up in it. ""At that unexpected trick, Japano became very sad and downcast. More so than he had ever been before."" ""Penocchio, you could boy, he cried out. You are not yet finished, and you start out by being impudent to your poor old father. Very bad my son. Very bad. And he wiped away it here. The legs and feet still had to be made. As soon as they were done, you had to felt a sharp kick on the tip of his nose. he said to himself, I should have thought of this before I made him. Now it's too late. He took hold of the Marionette under the arms and put him on the floor to teach him to walk. Pinocchio's legs were so stiff that he could not move them and Jepetto held his hand and showed him how to put one foot after the other. When his legs were numbered up, Pinocchio started walking by himself and ran all around the room. He came to the open door, and with one leap he was out into the street, away he flew. Poor Jepetto ran after him, but was unable to catch him, for Pinocchio ran in leaps and bounds, his two wooden feet, as they beat on the stones of the street, making as much noise as 20 peasants wouldn't choose. Catch him, catch him! Japan don't have shouting, but the people in the street, seeing they wouldn't marry in it, running like the wind, stood still to stare and to laugh until they cried. At last, by sheer luck, a carabeneer begin out a military policeman and note. Happened along, who, hearing all that noise, thought that it might be a runaway cult, and stood bravely in the middle of the street with legs wide apart, firmly resolved, to stop it and prevent any trouble. Pinocchio saw the carabineer from afar and tried his best to escape between the legs of the big fellow, but without success. The carabineer grabbed him by the nose, it was an extremely long one, and seemed made and purpose for that very thing, and returned him to my stroke, Japano. The little old man wanted to pull Pinocchio's ears. Think how he felt when upon searching for them, he discovered that he had forgotten to make them. All he could do was to see his Pinocchio by the back of the neck and take him home. As he was doing so, he shook him two or three times and said to him, ""Ingerly, we're going home."" Now when we get home, then we'll settle this matter. Pinocchio, I'm hearing this, through himself on the ground, and refused to take another step. One person after another gathered around the two, some said one thing, ""Someone another."" Poor Marionette called out a man. I'm not surprised he doesn't want to go home. Jepetto, no doubt, will be him unmercifully. He is so mean and cruel. Jepetto no doubt will beat him unmercifully. He is so mean and cruel. Jepetto looks like a good man, added another, but with boys he is a real tyrant. If we leave that poor Marionette in his hands, he may tear him to pieces. They said so much that finally the carabiner ended matters by setting the Pinocchio at Liberty and dragging Jepetto to prison. The poor old fellow did not know how to defend himself, but wet and wailed, like a child and said between his sobbs. ""I'm grateful, boy, to think I tried so hard to make you a well-behaved marionette. I deserve it, however, I should have given the matter more thought."" 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| The Adventures of Pinocchio,C. Collodi,Chapter 04,https://archive.org/download/adventures_pinocchio_librivox/adventurespinocchio_04_collodi_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/adventures_pinocchio_librivox,265.85,en,643,"This is a LibreVox Recording. All LibreVox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and find out how you can volunteer, please visit LibreVox.org. Read and Recorded by Betsy Bush, Market Michigan January 2006. The Adventures of Pinocchio by C. Colody translated from the Italian by Carol Della Kiesa. Chapter 4 The story of Pinocchio and japano prison, in the meantime that rascal Pinocchio, three now from the clutches of the carabiner, was running wildly across the fields and meadows, taking one shortcut after another toward home. In his wild flight, he left over brambles and bushes, and across rocks and ponds, as if he were a goat, or a hair chased by hounds. On reaching home, he found the house door half open. He slipped into the room, locked the door, and threw himself on the floor, happy at his escape. But he's happy this lasted only a short time, for just then he heard someone saying, ""Creatily, create, create."" ""Who is calling me?"" Ask Pinocchio, greatly frightened. ""I am."" Pinocchio turned and saw a large cricket crawling slowly up the wall. ""Tell me, cricket, who are you?"" ""I am the talking cricket."" ""And I have been living in this room for more than 100 years."" ""Today, however, this room is mine, said the Marionette, and if you wish to do me a favor, get out now and don't turn around even once. I refuse to leave this spot and start the cricket, until I have told you a great truth. And then hurry. Well, to boys who refuse to obey their parents and run away from home, they will never be happy in this world, and when they are older, they will be very sorry for it. Sing on cricket mine as you please. What I know is that tomorrow, at dawn, I'll leave this place forever. If I stay here, the same thing will happen to me, which happens to all of their boys and girls. They are sent to school, and whether they want to or not, they must study. As for me, let me tell you, I hate to study. It's much more fun, I think, to change after butterflies climb trees and steal birds nest. Poor little silly, don't you know that if you go on like that, you will grow into a perfect donkey, and that you will be the livingstock of everyone. Keep still, you ugly cricket, cried Pinocchio. But the cricket, who was a wise old philosopher, instead of being offended at Pinocchio's impudence, continued in the same tone. If you do not like going to school, why don't you at least learn a trade so that you can earn an honest living? Shall I tell you something that has to be a criminal who was beginning to lose patience? Of all the trades in the world there is only one that really suits me. And what can that be? That of eating a drinking, sleeping, playing and wandering around from morning till night. Let me tell you for your own good, Pinocchio. So, the talking cricket in his common voice, that those who follow that trade always end up in the hospital or in prison. Careful, ugly cricket. If you make me angry, you will be sorry. Who are you, Pinocchio? I am sorry for you. Why? Because you are a Marionette. And what is much worse, you have a wooden head. At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in the field. took a hammer from the bench and threw it with all his strength at the talking cricket. Perhaps he did not think he would strike it, but sad to relate to my dear children. He did hit the cricket straight on his head. With the last week, the poor cricket fell from the wall, dead. 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I am sorry for you. Why?""}, {""start"": 231, ""end"": 236, ""text"": ""Because you are a Marionette. And what is much worse, you have a wooden head.""}, {""start"": 236, ""end"": 241, ""text"": ""At these last words, Pinocchio jumped up in the field.""}, {""start"": 240, ""end"": 247, ""text"": ""took a hammer from the bench and threw it with all his strength at the talking cricket.""}, {""start"": 247, ""end"": 252, ""text"": ""Perhaps he did not think he would strike it, but sad to relate to my dear children.""}, {""start"": 252, ""end"": 255, ""text"": ""He did hit the cricket straight on his head.""}, {""start"": 255, ""end"": 262, ""text"": ""With the last week, the poor cricket fell from the wall, dead.""}, {""start"": 262, ""end"": 265, ""text"": ""And of chapter 4.""}]" | |
| The Art of War,Sun Tzu,1 Laying Plans - 2 Waging War,https://archive.org/download/art_of_war_librivox/art_of_war_01-02_sun_tzu_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/art_of_war_librivox,506.78,en,1373,"This is a Librevox recording. All Librevox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit Librevox.org. Recording by Moirafogity, the art of war by Sunzu translated by Lionel Giles. Part 1. Laying plans. of the world. The world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part of the world, and the world is a part being neglected. The art of war then is governed by five constant factors to be taken into account in one's deliberations when seeking to determine the conditions obtaining in the field. These are, one, the moral law, two, heaven, three, earth, four, the commander, five method and discipline. The moral law 5. Method and discipline The moral law causes the people to be in complete accord with their ruler, so that they will follow Him regardless of their lives undismayed by any danger. Heaven signifies night and day, cold and heat, times and seasons. Earth comprises distances, great and small, danger and security, open ground and narrow passes, the chances of life and death. The commander stands for the virtues of wisdom, sincerity, benevolence, courage, and stricness. By method and discipline are to be understood the marshalling of the army in its proper subdivisions. The graduations of rank among the officers, the maintenance of roads by which supplies may reach the army, and the control of military expenditure. These five heads should be familiar to every general. He who knows them will be victorious, he who knows them not will fail. Therefore in your deliberations when seeking to determine the military conditions, let them be made the basis of comparison in this wise. One, which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the moral law, two, which of the two generals has most ability. Three, with whom live the advantages derived from heaven and earth? Four, on which side is disciplined most rigorously enforced? Five, which army is stronger? Six, on which side are officers and men more highly trained? Seven, in which army is there the greater consistency both in reward and punishment? By means of these seven considerations I can forecast victory or defeat. The general that harkens to my council and acts upon it will conquer. Let's such a one be retained in command. The general that harkens not to my council nor acts upon it will suffer defeat. Let's such a one be dismissed. While heating the profit of my council, avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances over and beyond the ordinary rules. According to circumstances that are favorable, one should modify one's plans. All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable. When using our forces, we must seem inactive. When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away. When far away, we must make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy, Famed disorder and crush him. If he is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior strength, evade him. If your opponent is of coloric temper, seek to irritate him, pretend to be weak that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. Attack him where he is unprepared, appear where you are not expected. These military devices, leading to victory, must not be devolged beforehand. Now the general who wins the battle makes many calculations in his temple air the battle is fought. The general who loses the battle makes a few calculations beforehand. Thus, do many calculations lead to victory and few calculations to defeat, how much more no calculation at all. It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose. End of Part 1. Part 2. Waging War. Sunsoos said, ""In the operations of war, where there are in the field of thousands with chariots, as many heavy chariots and a hundred thousand male-clad soldiers, with provisions enough to carry them a thousand lee, the expenditure at home and at the front, including entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and some spent on chariots and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day, such as the cost of raising an army of a hundred thousand men. When you engage in actual fighting, if victory is longing coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and their order will be damped. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the state will not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your order damped, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent. Other chiefs will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however wise, will be able to overt the consequences that must ensue. Thus, though we have heard of stupid hasten war, cleverness has never been seen associated with long delays. There is no instance of a country having benefited from prolonged warfare. It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. The scultile soldier does not raise a second-leave. Neither are his supply wagons loaded more than twice. Bring warm material with you from home, but forage on the enemy, thus the army will have food enough for its needs. Poverty of the state-exchecker causes an army to be maintained by contributions from a distance. Contributing to maintain an army at a distance causes the people to be impoverished. On the other hand, the proximity of an army causes prices to go up, and high prices cause the people's substance to be drained away. When their substance is drained away, the peasantry will be afflicted by heavy exactions. With this loss of substance and exhaustion of strength, the homes of the people will be stripped bare, and three tenths of their income will be dissipated. While government expenses for broken chariots, worn out horses, breastplates and helmets, bows and arrows, spears and shields, protective mantles, draft dox and heavy wagons, will amount to four tenths of its total revenue. Hence, a wise general makes a point of forging on the enemy. One cartload of the enemy's provisions is equivalent to 20 of one zone, and likewise, a single peacle of his Provenor is equivalent to 20 of one's own. And likewise, a single people of his Provenor, is equivalent to 20 from one's own store. Now in order to kill the enemy, our men must be roused to anger, but there may be advantages from defeating the enemy, they must have their rewards. Therefore, in charity fighting, when tenor more chariots have been taken, those should be rewarded who took the first. Our own flags should be substituted for those of the enemy, and their chariots mingled and used in conjunction with ours. The captured soldiers should be kindly treated and kept. This is called, using the conquered folk to augment one's own strength. In more than, like your great object-bevictory, not lengthy campaigns, that may be known that the leader of armies is the arbiter of the people's fate, the man on whom it depends whether the nation shall be in peace or in peril. And of part 2. Recorded in Toronto Ontario by Moira Fogody, October 2006.","[{""start"": 0, ""end"": 3, ""text"": ""This is a Librevox recording.""}, {""start"": 3, ""end"": 7, ""text"": ""All Librevox recordings are in the public domain.""}, {""start"": 7, ""end"": 13, ""text"": ""For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit Librevox.org.""}, {""start"": 13, ""end"": 21, ""text"": ""Recording by Moirafogity, the art of war by Sunzu translated by Lionel Giles.""}, {""start"": 21, ""end"": 27, ""text"": ""Part 1. Laying plans. of the world. 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One, which of the two sovereigns is imbued with the moral law, two, which""}, {""start"": 140.52, ""end"": 148, ""text"": ""of the two generals has most ability. Three, with whom live the advantages derived from heaven and earth?""}, {""start"": 148, ""end"": 152, ""text"": ""Four, on which side is disciplined most rigorously enforced?""}, {""start"": 152, ""end"": 156, ""text"": ""Five, which army is stronger?""}, {""start"": 156, ""end"": 160, ""text"": ""Six, on which side are officers and men more highly trained?""}, {""start"": 160, ""end"": 167, ""text"": ""Seven, in which army is there the greater consistency both in reward and punishment?""}, {""start"": 167, ""end"": 172.5, ""text"": ""By means of these seven considerations I can forecast victory or defeat.""}, {""start"": 172.5, ""end"": 176, ""text"": ""The general that harkens to my council and acts upon it will conquer.""}, {""start"": 176, ""end"": 180, ""text"": ""Let's such a one be retained in command.""}, {""start"": 180, ""end"": 185, ""text"": ""The general that harkens not to my council nor acts upon it will suffer defeat.""}, {""start"": 185, ""end"": 187, ""text"": ""Let's such a one be dismissed.""}, {""start"": 187, ""end"": 192.32, ""text"": ""While heating the profit of my council, avail yourself also of any helpful circumstances""}, {""start"": 192.32, ""end"": 195, ""text"": ""over and beyond the ordinary rules.""}, {""start"": 195, ""end"": 200, ""text"": ""According to circumstances that are favorable, one should modify one's plans.""}, {""start"": 200, ""end"": 203, ""text"": ""All warfare is based on deception.""}, {""start"": 203, ""end"": 207, ""text"": ""Hence, when able to attack, we must seem unable.""}, {""start"": 207, ""end"": 210, ""text"": ""When using our forces, we must seem inactive.""}, {""start"": 210, ""end"": 214, ""text"": ""When we are near, we must make the enemy believe we are far away.""}, {""start"": 214, ""end"": 218, ""text"": ""When far away, we must make him believe we are near.""}, {""start"": 218, ""end"": 221, ""text"": ""Hold out baits to entice the enemy,""}, {""start"": 221, ""end"": 224, ""text"": ""Famed disorder and crush him.""}, {""start"": 224, ""end"": 226.6, ""text"": ""If he is secure at all points, be prepared""}, {""start"": 226.6, ""end"": 234, ""text"": ""for him. 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The general who loses the battle makes a few calculations beforehand.""}, {""start"": 268.64, ""end"": 274.15999999999997, ""text"": ""Thus, do many calculations lead to victory and few calculations to defeat,""}, {""start"": 274.15999999999997, ""end"": 277.2, ""text"": ""how much more no calculation at all.""}, {""start"": 277.2, ""end"": 283.44, ""text"": ""It is by attention to this point that I can foresee who is likely to win or lose.""}, {""start"": 283.44, ""end"": 286.28, ""text"": ""End of Part 1.""}, {""start"": 286.28, ""end"": 287.28, ""text"": ""Part 2.""}, {""start"": 287.28, ""end"": 289.56, ""text"": ""Waging War.""}, {""start"": 289.56, ""end"": 294.32, ""text"": ""Sunsoos said, \""In the operations of war, where there are in the field of thousands""}, {""start"": 294.32, ""end"": 299.76, ""text"": ""with chariots, as many heavy chariots and a hundred thousand male-clad soldiers, with provisions""}, {""start"": 299.76, ""end"": 304.64, ""text"": ""enough to carry them a thousand lee, the expenditure at home and at the front, including""}, {""start"": 304.64, ""end"": 310.2, ""text"": ""entertainment of guests, small items such as glue and paint, and some spent on chariots""}, {""start"": 310.2, ""end"": 315.15999999999997, ""text"": ""and armor, will reach the total of a thousand ounces of silver per day, such as""}, {""start"": 315.15999999999997, ""end"": 320.96, ""text"": ""the cost of raising an army of a hundred thousand men. 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| The Art of War,Sun Tzu,3 Attack By Stratagem - 4 Tactical Dispositions,https://archive.org/download/art_of_war_librivox/art_of_war_03-04_sun_tzu_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/art_of_war_librivox,465.35,en,1294,"This is a Librevox recording. All Librevox recordings are in the public domain. For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit Librevox.org. Recording by Moira Fogridi, the Art of War by Sunsu, translated by Lionel Giles. Part 3 Attack by Strategy. The first thing that is in the world is the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, to capture a regiment, a detachment, or a company entirely than to destroy them. Hence, to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence. Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. Thus, the highest form of generalship is to block the enemy's plans. The next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces. The next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field. And the worst policy of all is to be siege walled cities. The rule is not to be siege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided. The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war will take up three whole months, and the piling up of bounds against the walls will take three months more. The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants, with the result that one third of his men are slain, while the towns still remains untaken. Such are the disastrous effects of a siege. Therefore the skillful leaders subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. He captures their cities without laying siege to them. He overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field. With his forces intact, he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus without losing a man. is trying to be complete. This is the method of attacking by strategy. It is the rule in war if our forces are sent to the enemies one to surround him. If five to one to attack him, if twice as numerous to divide our army into two, if equally matched we can offer battle. If slightly inferior in numbers we can avoid the enemy, if quite unequal in every way we can flee from him. Hence, though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force. Now the general is the ballwork of the state. If the ballwork is complete at all points, the state will be strong. If the ballwork is effective, the state will be weak. There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army. The state will be strong, if the Bologna is defective, the state will be weak. There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army. One, by commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey. This is called ""Hobbling the Army"" Two, by attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the conditions which obtain an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds. Three. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination through ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances, this shakes the confidence of the soldiers. But when the army is restless and distrustful, trouble is sure to come from the other feudal princes. This is simply bringing anarchy into the army, and flinging victory away. Thus we may know that there are five essentials for victory. One, he will win, who knows when to fight, and when not to fight. Two, he will win, who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. 3. He will win, whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. 4. He will win, who prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. 5. He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. Hence the saying, ""If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. And of Part 3. Part 4. Tactical dispositions. Sun-soo said, ""The good fighters of all first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus, the good fighter is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. Hence the saying, one may know how to conquer without being able to do it. Security against defeat implies defensive tactics. Ability to defeat the enemy means taking the offensive. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength, attacking a superabundance of strength. The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth, who is skilled in attack, flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven. Thus, on the one hand, we have ability to protect ourselves, on the other of the victory that is complete. To see victory only when it is within the Ken of the Common Horde is not the act of excellence. Neither is it the act of excellence if you fight and conquer, and the whole empire says, ""Well done!"" To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength. To see the sun moon is no sign of sharp sight. To hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick ear. What the ancients called a clever fight He is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. Hence, his victory is bringing him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage. He wins his battles by making no mistakes. Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated. Hence, the skillful fighter puts himself into a position, which makes defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy. Thus it is that in more the victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won, whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for victory. The consummate leader cultivates the moral law and strictly adheres to method and discipline. Thus it is in his power to control success. In respect of military method we have, firstly, measurement, secondly, estimation of quantity, thirdly calculation, fourthly balancing of chances, fifthly, victory. Measurement owes its existence to Earth. Estimation of quantity, dimension of calculation, and the balancing of the calculation, and the victory to balancing of chances. A victorious army opposed to a routed one, is as a pounds weight placed in the scale against a single grain. The on-rush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent up waters into a chasm of 1,000 fathoms deep. And of part 4. Recorded in Toronto Ontario by Moira Fogridi, October 2006.","[{""start"": 0, ""end"": 4, ""text"": ""This is a Librevox recording.""}, {""start"": 4, ""end"": 7, ""text"": ""All Librevox recordings are in the public domain.""}, {""start"": 7, ""end"": 13, ""text"": ""For more information and to find out how you can volunteer, please visit Librevox.org.""}, {""start"": 13, ""end"": 21, ""text"": ""Recording by Moira Fogridi, the Art of War by Sunsu, translated by Lionel Giles.""}, {""start"": 21, ""end"": 27, ""text"": ""Part 3 Attack by Strategy. The first thing that is in the world is the world of the world, the world of the world,""}, {""start"": 27, ""end"": 32, ""text"": ""the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world,""}, {""start"": 32, ""end"": 36, ""text"": ""the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world,""}, {""start"": 36, ""end"": 41, ""text"": ""the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world,""}, {""start"": 41, ""end"": 45, ""text"": ""the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, the world of the world, to capture a regiment, a detachment, or a company entirely than to destroy them.""}, {""start"": 45, ""end"": 50, ""text"": ""Hence, to fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence.""}, {""start"": 50, ""end"": 55, ""text"": ""Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.""}, {""start"": 55, ""end"": 59, ""text"": ""Thus, the highest form of generalship is to block the enemy's plans.""}, {""start"": 59, ""end"": 63, ""text"": ""The next best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces.""}, {""start"": 63, ""end"": 67.72, ""text"": ""The next in order is to attack the enemy's army in the field.""}, {""start"": 67.72, ""end"": 71.96, ""text"": ""And the worst policy of all is to be siege walled cities.""}, {""start"": 71.96, ""end"": 76.48, ""text"": ""The rule is not to be siege walled cities if it can possibly be avoided.""}, {""start"": 76.48, ""end"": 80.96, ""text"": ""The preparation of mantlets, movable shelters, and various implements of war will take up""}, {""start"": 80.96, ""end"": 87, ""text"": ""three whole months, and the piling up of bounds against the walls will take three months more.""}, {""start"": 87, ""end"": 94, ""text"": ""The general, unable to control his irritation, will launch his men to the assault like swarming ants,""}, {""start"": 94, ""end"": 99, ""text"": ""with the result that one third of his men are slain, while the towns still remains untaken.""}, {""start"": 99, ""end"": 102, ""text"": ""Such are the disastrous effects of a siege.""}, {""start"": 102, ""end"": 108.68, ""text"": ""Therefore the skillful leaders subdues the enemy's troops without any fighting. He captures their cities without""}, {""start"": 108.68, ""end"": 114.96, ""text"": ""laying siege to them. He overthrows their kingdom without lengthy operations in the field.""}, {""start"": 114.96, ""end"": 119.6, ""text"": ""With his forces intact, he will dispute the mastery of the Empire, and thus without losing""}, {""start"": 119.6, ""end"": 120.6, ""text"": ""a man.""}, {""start"": 120, ""end"": 127, ""text"": ""is trying to be complete. This is the method of attacking by strategy. It is the rule""}, {""start"": 127, ""end"": 132.76, ""text"": ""in war if our forces are sent to the enemies one to surround him. If five to one to attack""}, {""start"": 132.76, ""end"": 138.96, ""text"": ""him, if twice as numerous to divide our army into two, if equally matched we can offer""}, {""start"": 138.96, ""end"": 147, ""text"": ""battle. If slightly inferior in numbers we can avoid the enemy, if quite unequal in every way we can flee from him.""}, {""start"": 147, ""end"": 155, ""text"": ""Hence, though an obstinate fight may be made by a small force, in the end it must be captured by the larger force.""}, {""start"": 155, ""end"": 158, ""text"": ""Now the general is the ballwork of the state.""}, {""start"": 158, ""end"": 161, ""text"": ""If the ballwork is complete at all points, the state will be strong.""}, {""start"": 161, ""end"": 164, ""text"": ""If the ballwork is effective, the state will be weak.""}, {""start"": 164, ""end"": 165, ""text"": ""There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army. The state will be strong, if the Bologna is defective, the state will be weak.""}, {""start"": 165, ""end"": 169, ""text"": ""There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army.""}, {""start"": 169, ""end"": 175, ""text"": ""One, by commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that it cannot obey.""}, {""start"": 175, ""end"": 178, ""text"": ""This is called \""Hobbling the Army\""""}, {""start"": 178, ""end"": 183, ""text"": ""Two, by attempting to govern an army in the same way as he administers a kingdom,""}, {""start"": 183, ""end"": 189.8, ""text"": ""being ignorant of the conditions which obtain an army. This causes restlessness in the soldier's minds.""}, {""start"": 189.8, ""end"": 194.56, ""text"": ""Three. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination through ignorance""}, {""start"": 194.56, ""end"": 201.84, ""text"": ""of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances, this shakes the confidence of the soldiers.""}, {""start"": 201.84, ""end"": 208, ""text"": ""But when the army is restless and distrustful, trouble is sure to come from the other feudal princes. This is simply bringing""}, {""start"": 208, ""end"": 213.84, ""text"": ""anarchy into the army, and flinging victory away. Thus we may know that there are""}, {""start"": 213.84, ""end"": 220.8, ""text"": ""five essentials for victory. One, he will win, who knows when to fight, and when not to fight.""}, {""start"": 220.8, ""end"": 227, ""text"": ""Two, he will win, who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.""}, {""start"": 227, ""end"": 233, ""text"": ""3. He will win, whose army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks.""}, {""start"": 233, ""end"": 239, ""text"": ""4. He will win, who prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared.""}, {""start"": 239, ""end"": 240, ""text"": ""5.""}, {""start"": 240, ""end"": 246.5, ""text"": ""He will win who has military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign.""}, {""start"": 246.5, ""end"": 251.46, ""text"": ""Hence the saying, \""If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result""}, {""start"": 251.46, ""end"": 253.3, ""text"": ""of a hundred battles.""}, {""start"": 253.3, ""end"": 258.06, ""text"": ""If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer""}, {""start"": 258.06, ""end"": 259.46, ""text"": ""a defeat.""}, {""start"": 259.46, ""end"": 265, ""text"": ""If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.""}, {""start"": 265, ""end"": 269, ""text"": ""And of Part 3.""}, {""start"": 269, ""end"": 270, ""text"": ""Part 4.""}, {""start"": 270, ""end"": 272, ""text"": ""Tactical dispositions.""}, {""start"": 272, ""end"": 277, ""text"": ""Sun-soo said, \""The good fighters of all first put themselves beyond the possibility""}, {""start"": 277, ""end"": 281, ""text"": ""of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.""}, {""start"": 281, ""end"": 285.92, ""text"": ""To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity""}, {""start"": 285.92, ""end"": 291.2, ""text"": ""of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus, the good fighter is able""}, {""start"": 291.2, ""end"": 296.8, ""text"": ""to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating the enemy. Hence""}, {""start"": 296.8, ""end"": 303.08, ""text"": ""the saying, one may know how to conquer without being able to do it. Security against""}, {""start"": 303.08, ""end"": 307, ""text"": ""defeat implies defensive tactics. Ability to defeat the enemy""}, {""start"": 307, ""end"": 312.72, ""text"": ""means taking the offensive. Standing on the defensive indicates insufficient strength,""}, {""start"": 312.72, ""end"": 318.96, ""text"": ""attacking a superabundance of strength. The general who is skilled in defense hides in""}, {""start"": 318.96, ""end"": 325.44, ""text"": ""the most secret recesses of the earth, who is skilled in attack, flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven.""}, {""start"": 326.48, ""end"": 330.72, ""text"": ""Thus, on the one hand, we have ability to protect ourselves, on the other of the""}, {""start"": 330.72, ""end"": 335.28, ""text"": ""victory that is complete. To see victory only when it is within the""}, {""start"": 335.28, ""end"": 341.12, ""text"": ""Ken of the Common Horde is not the act of excellence. Neither is it the act of excellence""}, {""start"": 341.12, ""end"": 345, ""text"": ""if you fight and conquer, and the whole empire says, \""Well""}, {""start"": 345, ""end"": 351, ""text"": ""done!\"" To lift an autumn hair is no sign of great strength. To see the sun""}, {""start"": 351, ""end"": 357, ""text"": ""moon is no sign of sharp sight. To hear the noise of thunder is no sign of a quick""}, {""start"": 357, ""end"": 360, ""text"": ""ear. What the ancients called a clever fight""}, {""start"": 360, ""end"": 365, ""text"": ""He is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease.""}, {""start"": 365, ""end"": 371, ""text"": ""Hence, his victory is bringing him neither reputation for wisdom nor credit for courage.""}, {""start"": 371, ""end"": 374, ""text"": ""He wins his battles by making no mistakes.""}, {""start"": 374, ""end"": 381, ""text"": ""Making no mistakes is what establishes the certainty of victory, for it means conquering an enemy that is already defeated.""}, {""start"": 381, ""end"": 385.18, ""text"": ""Hence, the skillful fighter puts himself into a position, which makes""}, {""start"": 385.18, ""end"": 391.22, ""text"": ""defeat impossible, and does not miss the moment for defeating the enemy. 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In respect of military""}, {""start"": 412.96, ""end"": 420, ""text"": ""method we have, firstly, measurement, secondly, estimation of quantity, thirdly calculation,""}, {""start"": 420, ""end"": 425.52, ""text"": ""fourthly balancing of chances, fifthly, victory.""}, {""start"": 425.52, ""end"": 428.12, ""text"": ""Measurement owes its existence to Earth.""}, {""start"": 428.12, ""end"": 434.48, ""text"": ""Estimation of quantity, dimension of calculation, and the balancing of the""}, {""start"": 434.48, ""end"": 437.32, ""text"": ""calculation, and the victory to balancing of chances.""}, {""start"": 437.32, ""end"": 442.44, ""text"": ""A victorious army opposed to a routed one, is as a pounds weight placed in the scale""}, {""start"": 442.44, ""end"": 445, ""text"": ""against a single grain.""}, {""start"": 445, ""end"": 449.44, ""text"": ""The on-rush of a conquering force is like the bursting of pent up waters into a""}, {""start"": 449.44, ""end"": 452.88, ""text"": ""chasm of 1,000 fathoms deep.""}, {""start"": 452.88, ""end"": 455.56, ""text"": ""And of part 4.""}, {""start"": 455.56, ""end"": 460.56, ""text"": ""Recorded in Toronto Ontario by Moira Fogridi, October 2006.""}]" | |
| "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll",Lewis Carroll,wonderland_ch_01,https://archive.org/download/alice_in_wonderland_librivox/wonderland_ch_01_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/alice_in_wonderland_librivox,640.5,en,2627,"This is a Librevox recording. On Librevox recordings are in the public domain, but more information were developed here, visit Librevox.org. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. Chapter 1 Down the Rabbit Hole Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do. Once her wife was in the the book her sister was reading, but had no pictures of conversations in it. And what's the use of the book? Without that, without pictures of her conversation. So she was considering in her own mind, as well as she could for the heart-dainer feel very sleepy and stupid, whether the pleasure of making a easy change would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the days. When suddenly, a white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that. Not sure if that's a very much other way to hear the rabbit say to itself, ""Oh dear, I shall be late."" When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time it seemed quite natural. But when the rabbit actually took a watch out of its waistcoat pocket, and looked at it, and then hurried on. Alice started to her feet for it flashed across her mind, but she'd never before seen her rabbit, with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it, and burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it. Unfortunately, it was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge. In another moment, down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was to get out again. The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some way, and then dipped suddenly down, so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she found herself falling down a very deep well of a sad story, but I think she was very happy. I thought she was going to be a little sad story, but I think she was going to be a little sad story. I think she was going to be a little sad story, but I think she was going to be a little sad story and I think she was going to be a little sad story. I think she was going to be a little sad story. Then she looked at the sides of the well, and noticed that they were filled with covered and bookshelves. Here and there, she saw maps and pictures hung upon pegs. She took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed, it was labeled orange-marmalade, but her great disappointment was empty. She did not like to drop the jar for fear of killing somebody, so she managed to put it into the one of the covered as she fell past it. Well, thought I'll ask to yourself after such a of the covers, as she felt passed it. Well, thought out as to yourself. After such a thought as this, I shall think nothing of something down stairs. How brave they'll all think we're at home. What I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off the top of the house. Which was very likely to. Down, down, down. The phone never comes to an end. I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time. She said aloud, ""I must be getting somewhere near the center of the earth."" Let me see, that would be 4,000 miles down. I think, if we see all the sudden things of this sort of lesson in the school room, and this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge as there was no one to listen to her. Still, it was good practice to say it over. Yes, that's about the right distance. But then I wonder what latitude or longitude I've got to. Alice had no idea what latitude was, or longitude either. But that's not the right way to say it. She began again. I wonder if she'll fall right through the earth. How funny it will seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward. The end of the season, I think. She was rather glad there was no one listening this time as it didn't sound at all the right word. But I shall have to ask them what if the name of the country is, you know? Please, man. Is this New Zealand or Australia? And she tried to curtsy as she spoke. The fancy curtsy is your falling through the air. Do you think you could manage it? And what an ignorant little girl she'll think for asking. No, it'll never do to ask. Perhaps I should see it written up somewhere. Down, down, down. There was nothing else to do, so I'll assume we're gonna talk again. I don't know if this means very much to me that should think. I don't know if it's the cat. I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I don't know if it's the cat. I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, get rather sleepy and went on saying to herself in a dreamy sort of way. ""You can't see bats. You can't see bats."" And sometimes, the batty counts. ""Well, you see, she couldn't answer either question. It didn't much matter which she put it."" She felt that she was doing it off and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Diana and saying to her very honestly, ""Now, Diana, tell me the truth, did you ever eat a bat? When suddenly, Thump, Thump, Down she came upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over. Alice was not a bit hurt, and she jumped up on her feet in a moment. She looked up, but it was all dark overhead. Before her was another long passage, and the white rabbit was still in sight, hurrying down it. There was not a moment to be lost. A way to tell us like the wind and was just in time to hear it say as it turned a corner. Oh my ears were going to be scary. I was just kidding. She was close behind it when she turned the corner, but the rabbit was no longer to be seen. She found herself in a long, low hall, which was lit up by a row of lamps hanging from the roof. There were doors all around the hall, but they were all locked. And when Alice had been all the way down one side and not the other, trying every door, she walked sadly down the middle, wondering how she was ever to get out again. Suddenly, she came upon a little three-legged table, all made of solid glass. There was nothing on it except a tiny golden key, and Alice's first thought was that it might belong to one of the doors of the hall. But alas, either the locks were too large or the key was too small, but it would not open any of them. However, on the second time round she came upon a low curtain she had not noticed before, and behind it was a little door, about 15 minutes later. She tried the little golden key in the lock and she heard great delight it fitted. Alice opened the door and found it led into a small passage. Not much larger than a rat hole. She jumped down and looked along the passage into the lovelyest garden you ever saw. How she longed to get out of that dark hall and wandering about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains. But she could not even get her head through the doorway. Even if my head would go through that poor Alice, it would be very little use without my shoulders. Oh, how I wish I could shut up like a telescope. I think I could, if I only know how to begin. If we see so many out of the way things that happened lately, that Alice would be going to think that there are a few things indeed were really impossible. There seem to be no use in waiting by the little door, so she went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or in any way, a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes. This time, she found a little bottle on it, which certainly was not here before. So that Alice, in the background, the neck of the bottle was a paper label, with the words ""during me"". Beautifully printed on it in large letters. It was all very well-designed drink me, but the wise little Alice was not going to do that in her. No, I'll look for it. She said, and see whether it's marked poison or not. But she had read several nice little histories about children who had gotten burnt. And he, not by wild beasts. And other unpleasant things, all because they would not remember the simple rules, their friends who taught them such as, that a red hot poker will burn you if you hold it too long, and that if you cut your finger very deeply with a knife it usually bleeds. And she had never forgotten that if you drank much from a bottle marked poison, it's almost certain to disagree with you sooner or later. However, this bottle was not marked poison, so Alice ventured to taste it. And finding it very nice. It had, in fact, a sort of mixed flavor of cherry tart, custard pineapple roast turkey toffee and hot butter toast. She very soon I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done this. I think I should have done anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going to be able to do anything. I'm not going into the garden at once. But unless for poor Alice when she got to the door, she found she'd forgotten the little golden key. And when she went back to the table for it, she found she could not possibly reach it. She could see it quite blindly through the glass, and she tried her best to climb up one of the legs of the table, but it was too slippery. And when she had tired herself out with trying, the poor little things sat down and cried. ""Come, there's no use crying like that,"" said Alex, who herself rather sharply, ""I'd advise you to leave off this minute."" She generally gave herself very good advice, though she very seldom followed it, and sometimes she scolded herself so severely as to bring tears into her eyes. She once remembered trying to box her own ears for having cheated herself in a game of croquage, she was playing against herself. But this period is childless fond of pretending to be two people. But it's no use now, that moral is to pretend to be two people, why? There's hardly enough of being to make one respectable person. Soon her eyes fell on a little glass box that was lying under the table. She opened it and found in it a very small cake on which the words eat me. We're beautifully marked in currents. Well, I'll eat it. So now this is something that makes me look larger. I can reach the key. And if it makes me grow smaller, I can't create under the door. So I think I'll get into the garden and I don't care which happens. She ate a little bit and said anxiously to herself, which way? Which way? Holding her hand on the top of her head to feel which way it was going. She was quite surprised to find that she remained the same size. To be sure this generally happens when one eats cake, but I also got so much into the way of expecting nothing but out of the way things to happen, that it seemed quite dull and stupid for life to go on in the common way. So if you've said to work, and very soon, finish off the cake. End of chapter 1. Read by Christian McQuillin, took your Japan. November 15, 2005.","[{""start"": 0, ""end"": 3, ""text"": ""This is a Librevox recording.""}, {""start"": 3, ""end"": 8, ""text"": ""On Librevox recordings are in the public domain, but more information were developed here,""}, {""start"": 8, ""end"": 10, ""text"": ""visit Librevox.org.""}, {""start"": 10, ""end"": 13, ""text"": ""Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll.""}, {""start"": 13, ""end"": 16, ""text"": ""Chapter 1 Down the Rabbit Hole""}, {""start"": 16, ""end"": 22, ""text"": ""Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do.""}, {""start"": 22, ""end"": 25, ""text"": ""Once her wife was in the the book her sister was reading,""}, {""start"": 25, ""end"": 29, ""text"": ""but had no pictures of conversations in it. And what's the use of the book?""}, {""start"": 29, ""end"": 34, ""text"": ""Without that, without pictures of her conversation. 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But then I wonder what latitude or longitude I've got to.""}, {""start"": 190.1, ""end"": 196.8, ""text"": ""Alice had no idea what latitude was, or longitude either. But that's not the right way to say it.""}, {""start"": 196.8, ""end"": 205.95999999999998, ""text"": ""She began again. I wonder if she'll fall right through the earth. How funny it will seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward.""}, {""start"": 205.95999999999998, ""end"": 207.95999999999998, ""text"": ""The end of the season, I think.""}, {""start"": 207.95999999999998, ""end"": 212.2, ""text"": ""She was rather glad there was no one listening this time as it didn't sound at all the right""}, {""start"": 212.2, ""end"": 213.2, ""text"": ""word.""}, {""start"": 213.2, ""end"": 216.64, ""text"": ""But I shall have to ask them what if the name of the country is, you know?""}, {""start"": 216.64, ""end"": 217.64, ""text"": ""Please, man.""}, {""start"": 217.64, ""end"": 219.44, ""text"": ""Is this New Zealand or Australia?""}, {""start"": 219.44, ""end"": 222.04000000000002, ""text"": ""And she tried to curtsy as she spoke.""}, {""start"": 222.04000000000002, ""end"": 224.2, ""text"": ""The fancy curtsy is your falling through the air.""}, {""start"": 224.2, ""end"": 226, ""text"": ""Do you think you could manage it?""}, {""start"": 226, ""end"": 229, ""text"": ""And what an ignorant little girl she'll think for asking.""}, {""start"": 229, ""end"": 231, ""text"": ""No, it'll never do to ask.""}, {""start"": 231, ""end"": 233, ""text"": ""Perhaps I should see it written up somewhere.""}, {""start"": 233, ""end"": 235, ""text"": ""Down, down, down.""}, {""start"": 235, ""end"": 239, ""text"": ""There was nothing else to do, so I'll assume we're gonna talk again.""}, {""start"": 240, ""end"": 243, ""text"": ""I don't know if this means very much to me that should think.""}, {""start"": 243, ""end"": 245, ""text"": ""I don't know if it's the cat.""}, {""start"": 245, ""end"": 248, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 248, ""end"": 249, ""text"": ""I don't know if it's the cat.""}, {""start"": 249, ""end"": 251, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 251, ""end"": 253, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 253, ""end"": 255, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 255, ""end"": 257, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 257, ""end"": 259, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 259, ""end"": 261, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 261, ""end"": 263, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 263, ""end"": 264, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time,""}, {""start"": 264, ""end"": 267, ""text"": ""I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, I hope that I remember her thoughts, but at the same time, get rather sleepy and went on saying to herself in a dreamy sort of way. \""You can't see bats. 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| The Secret Garden,Frances Hodgson Burnett,01 - There is No One Left,https://archive.org/download/secret_garden_librivox/secretgarden_01_burnett_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/secret_garden_librivox,808.54,en,2013,"This is a Librevox recording. All Librevox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox.org. This reading by Kara Shallenberg www.kra.org The secret garden by Francis Hodgson Burnett, chapter 1, there is no one left. When Mary Lanux was sent to the middle of the house, she was the most disagreeable looking child ever seen. It was true too. She had a little thin face and a little thin body, thin light hair and a sour expression. Her hair was yellow, and her face was yellow because she had been born in India, and had always been ill in one way or another. Her father had held a position under the English government, and had always been busy and ill himself. And her mother had been a great beauty who cared only to go to parties and amuse herself with gay people. She had not wanted a little girl at all, and when Mary was born, she handed her over to the care of an Ia who was made to understand that if she wished to please the memzaeb, she must keep the child out of sight as much as possible. So when she was a sickly, frightful, ugly little baby, she was kept out of the way, and when she became a sickly, frightful, totalling things she was kept out of the way also. She never remembered seeing familiarly anything, but the dark faces of her eye and the other native servants. And as they always obeyed her and gave her her own way in everything, because the MEMS I would be angry if she were was disturbed by her crying. By the time she was six years old, she was as tyrannical and selfish a little pig as ever lived. The young English governess who came to teach her to read and write, ""This liked her so much that she gave up her place in three months."" And when other governess was came to try to fill it, they always went away in a shorter time than the first one. So, if Mary had not chosen to really want to know how to read books, she would never have learned her letters at all. One frightfully hot morning, when she was about nine years old, she awakened feeling very cross, and she became crossers still when she saw that the servant who stood by her bedside was not her eye-up. ""Why did you come?"" she said to the strange woman, ""I will not let you stay,"" sent my eye to me. The woman looked frightened, but she only stammered that the eye-up could not come, and when Mary threw herself into a passion and beat and kicked her. She looked only more frightened, and repeated that it was not possible for the eye to come to a Missy Sahib. There was something mysterious in the air that morning. Nothing was done in its regular order, and several of the native servants seemed missing, while those who Mary saw slung or hurried about with ashy and scared faces. But no one would tell her anything, and her eyeer did not come. She was actually left alone as the morning went on, and at last she wandered out into the garden garden and began to play by herself under a tree near the veranda. She pretended that she was making a flower bed and she stuck big scarlet, high-biscous blossoms into little heaps of earth. All the time growing more and more angry and muttering to her herself, the things she would say, and the names she would call society when she returned. ""Pig, pig!"" ""Don't have pigs!"" She said, ""Because to call a native a pig is the worst insult of all."" She was grinding her teeth and saying this over and over again when she heard her mother come out on the veranda with someone. She was with a fairy young man, and they stood talking together in low-strange voices. Mary knew the fairy young man who looked like a boy. She had heard that he was a very young officer who had just come from England. The child stared at him, but she stared most at her mother. She always did this when she had a chance to see her, because the men's a heave. Mary used to call her that, often or anything else. Was such a tall, slim, pretty person, and wore such lovely clothes. Her hair was like curly silk, and she had a delicate little nose, which seemed to be disdaining things, and she had large laughing eyes. All her clothes were thin and floating, and Mary said they were full of lace. They looked fuller of lace than ever this morning, but her eyes were not laughing at all. They were large and scared, and lifted imploringly to the fair boy officer's face. Is it so very bad? Oh, is it? Mary heard her say. ""Otherly, the young man answered in a trembling voice. ""Otherly, Mrs. Lennox, you ought to have gone to the hills two weeks ago."" ""The men say he'd run her hands."" ""Oh, I know I ought to."" ""She cried. I only stayed to go to that silly dinner party. What a fool I was."" And that very moment, such a loud sound of wailing broke out from the servants quarters that she clutched the young man's arm, and Mary stood shivering from head to foot. The wailing grew wilder and wilder. What is it? What is it? Mrs. Lennox gasped. Someone has died. Answered the boy officer. You did not say it had broken out among your servants. I did not know the man who cried, ""Come with me, come with me!"" And she turned, and ran into the house. After that, a polling thing happened, and the mysteriousness of the morning was explained to Mary. The cholera had broken out in its most fatal form, and people were dying like flies. The Ia had been taken ill in the night, and it was because she had just died that the servants had wailed in the hut. Before the next day, three other servants were dead, and others had run away in terror. There was panic on every side, and dying people in all the bungalows. During the confusion and bewilderment of the second day, Mary hid herself in the nursery, and was forgotten by everyone. Nobody thought of her. Nobody wanted her, and strange things happened of which she knew nothing. Mary alternately cried and slept through the hours. She only knew that people were ill, and that she heard mysterious and frightening sounds. Once she crept into the dining room and found it empty, though a partly finished meal was on the table, and chairs and plates looked as if they had been hastily pushed back when the diners rose suddenly for some reason. The child ate some fruit and biscuits, and being Her first Eashy drank a glass of wine, which stood nearly filled. It was sweet, and she did not know how strong it was. Very soon it made her intensely drowsy, and she went back to her nursery, and shut herself in again, frightened by a cries she heard in the hut, and by the hurling sound of feet. The wine made her so sleepy that she could scarcely keep her eyes open, and she laid down on her bed and knew nothing more for a long time. Many things happened during the hours in which she slept so heavily, but she was not disturbed by the whales, and the sound of things being carried in and out of the bungalow. When she awakened, she lay to be in the house. She was not allowed to be in the house, but she was not allowed to be in the house. She was not allowed to be in the house, but she was not allowed to be in the house. When she awakened, she lay and stared at the wall. The house was perfectly still. She had also who would take care of her now her eye, I was dead. There would be a new eye, and perhaps she would know some new stories. Mary had been rather tired of the old ones. She did not cry because her nurse had died. She was not an affectionate child, and had never cared much for anyone. The noise and hurrying about and wailing over the color I had frightened her, and she had been angry because no one seemed to remember that she was alive. Everyone was too panextricant to think of a little girl no one was fond of. When people had the color, it seemed that they remembered nothing but themselves, but if everyone had got well again, surely someone would remember and come to look for her. But no one came, and as she lay waiting, the house seemed to grow more and more silent. She heard something rustling on the matting, and when she looked down, she saw a little snake gliding along, and watching her with eyes like jewels. She was not frightened because he was a harmless little thing who would not hurt her, and he seemed to get out of the room. He slipped under the door, as she watched him. ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" ""I see."" and talk to the little voices. No one went to meet or speak to them, and they seemed to open doors, and look into rooms. ""What desolation?"" she heard one voice say. ""That pretty, pretty woman. I suppose the child, too. I heard there was a child, though no one ever saw her. Mary was standing in the middle of the nursery when they opened the door, a few minutes later. She looked and ugly, crossed little thing, and was frowning because she was beginning to be hungry, and field this gracefully neglected. The first man who came in was a large officer she had once seen talking to her father. He looked tired and troubled, but when he saw her, he was so startled that he almost jumped back. ""Barny!"" he cried out. ""There is a child here, a child alone in a place like this. Mercy on us, who is she?"" ""I am Mary Lynux."" ""The little girl said, drawing herself up stiffly."" ""She thought the man was very rude to call her father's bungalow. A place like this."" ""I fell asleep when everyone had the color, and I have only just waking up."" Why does nobody come? It is the child no one ever saw. Explained the man, turning to his companions. She has actually been forgotten. Why was I forgotten? Mary said, stamping her foot, ""Why does nobody come?"" The young man whose name was Barney looked at her very sadly. Mary even thought she saw him wink his eyes as if to wink tears away. Poor little kid, he said, ""There is nobody left to come."" It was in that strange and sudden way that Mary found out that she had neither father nor mother left. That they had died and been carried away in the night, and that the few native servants who had not died also had left the house as quickly as they could get out of it. None of them even remembering that there was a misceaseaheab. That was why the place was so quiet. It was true that there was no one in the bungalow but herself and the little wrestling snake. 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| Peter Pan,J. M. Barrie,01 - Peter Breaks Through,https://archive.org/download/peter_pan_0707_librivox/peterpan_01_barrie_64kb.mp3,https://archive.org/details/peter_pan_0707_librivox,1070.76,en,3407,"This is a Librevox Recording. All Librevox recordings are in the public domain. For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox.org. Recording by Meredith Hughes, Peter Pan, by J.M. Barry. Chapter 1. Peter breaks through. All children accept one. Chapter 1 Peter breaks through. All children accept one. Grow up. They soon know that they will grow up and the way Wendy knew was this. One day, when she was two years old, she was playing in a garden and she plucked another flower and ran with it to her mother. I suppose she must have looked rather delightful for Mrs. Darling put her hand to her heart and cried, ""Oh, why can't you remain like this forever?"" This was all that passed between them on the subject, but henceforth, when do you knew that she must grow up? You always know after you are two. Two is the beginning of the end. Of course, they lived at 14, and until Wendy came, her mother was the chief one. She was a lovely lady with a romantic mind, and such a sweet mocking mouth. Her romantic mind was like the tiny boxes, one with the other that come from the puzzling east. However, many you, there's always one more, and her sweet mocking mouth had one kiss on it, that when he could never get. Though there it was, perfectly conspicuous in the right hand corner. The way Mr. Darling won her was this. The many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her, except Mr. Darling, who took a cab in the first, and so he got her. He got all of her, except the innermost box, and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the I guess. Wendy thought Napoleon could have got it, but I can picture him trying, and then going off in a passion slamming the door. Mr. Darling used to boast to Wendy that her mother not only loved him, but respected him. He was one of those deep ones who know about stocks and shares. Of course, no one really knows, but he quite seemed to know, and he often said stocks were up and shares were down, in a way that would have made anyone respect him. This is Darling was married and white, and at first she kept the books perfectly, almost leafly as if it were a game. Not so much as a Brussels sprite was missing, but by and by whole cauliflower is dropped out, and instead of them, there were pictures of babies without faces. She drew them when she should have been taught up. They were Mrs. Darling's guesses. When he came first, then John, then Michael. For a week or two after when he came, it was doubtful whether they would be able to keep her as she was another mouth defeated. Mr. Darling was frightfully proud of her, but he was very honorable, and he sat on the edge of Mrs. Darling's bed holding her hand and calculating expenses while she looked at him employingly. She wanted to risk it, come what might, but that was not his way. His way was with a pencil and a piece of paper. And if she confused him with suggestions, he had to begin at the beginning again. Now, don't interrupt. He would be a photographer. I have £1.17 here, and £2.6 at the office. I can cast my coffee at the office, say, 10 shillings, making £2.9 and £6. With your £18.3, makes £3.9 and £3.7, with £5.9 and £8.8 and £8.8 and £8.8 and £8.8 and £8 your 18 and 3 makes 3 9 7 with 5 not in my checkbook makes 8 9 7 who is that moving? 8 9 7 don't care 7 don't speak my own and the pound you went to that man who came to the door quiet child dot in carry child there you've done it Did I say 997? Yes, I said 997. The question is, can we try it for a year on 997? Of course we can't George. She cried, but she was a projectist in one of these favour, and he was really the Grand Recarter of the two. Remember, Mom, he warned her almost certainly, and off you went again. Mom's one pound, that is what I put down, but I dare say it will be more like 30 shillings. Don't speak. These are all five German measles, half a guinea pig, two fifteen six, don't wiggle your finger. We'll be in a cough, say fifteen shillings, and so on it went, and it added up differently each time. But at last, when you just got through, with months reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one. There was the same excitement over John, and Michael had even an arrow or squeak, but both were kept. And soon you might have seen the three of them, going in a row to Miss Fullsons kindergarten school, accompanied by their nurse. This is darling love to have everything just so, and Mr. Darling had a passion for being exactly like his neighbors, so of course they had a nurse. As they were poor, going to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prime newfoundland dog called Nana, who had belonged to know and in particular until the Darling's engaged her. She had always thought children important however, and the darling had become acquainted with her and Kensington Gardens, where she spent most of her spare time keeping in the parameters, and was much hated by careless nursemates, whom she followed to their homes and complained of to their mistresses. She proved to be quite a treasure of a nurse. How thorough she was at that time, and up at any moment of the night if one of her charges made the slightest cry. Of course, her kennel was in the nursery. She had a genius for knowing when a cough is a thing to have no patience with, and when it needs a stocking around her throat. She believed her last day in old fashioned remedies like rubarbleaf. and made sounds of contempt over all this newfangled talk about germs and so on. It was a lesson in propriety to see her escorting the children to school, walking sedately by their side when they were well behaved and bedding them back until I, and if they stayed. On John's soccer days, she never once forgot his sweater, and she usually carried an umbrella in her mouth in case of rain. There's a room in the basement of this full school where the nurse is waiting. They sat on forms while they lay on the floor, but that was the only difference. They affected to ignore her as if an inferior social status to themselves, and she despised their light-talk. She resented visits to the nurse from this darling's friends, but if they did come, she first whipped off Michael's pinnacle and put him into the one with blue-braiding and smoothed that Wendy and made a dash at Johns here. No nursery could possibly have been conducted more correctly, and Mr. Darling knew it. Yet he sometimes wondered, and easily, whether the neighbors talked. He had his position in the city to consider. Now, I'm also troubled him in another way. He had sometimes a feeling that she did not admire him. I know she admires you tremendously George and this is darling with a sure him, and then she would sign to the children to be specially nice to father. Lovely dance is followed, in which the only other servant lies a, with sometimes allowed to join. Such a image that she looked in her long skirt and made his cap, though she had sworn when engaged that she would never see ten again. The gait of these romps, the gait of all was Mrs. Darling, who would appear at so wildly that all you could see of her was the kiss, and then if you had dashed at her, you might have got it. There never was a simpler, happier family, until the coming of Peter Pan. This is Darling, first heard of Peter, when she was tidying up her children's minds. This is the night of the day. to be able to do it. If you could keep awake, but of course you can't. You would see your own mother doing this. And you would find it very interesting to watch her. It is quite like tidying up drawers. You would see her underneath, I expect. Lingering humorously over some of your contents. Wondering where on earth are you, and you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as you, as would see her underneath, I expect, lingering humorously over some of your contents. Wondering where on earth you would pick this thing up, making discovery sweet and not so sweet. Pressing this to her cheek is if it was nice as it was hidden and heard these telling that out of sight. When you wake in the morning, the naughtyness and evil passions which you went to bed have been folded up small and placed at the bottom of your mind. And on the top, beautifully aired, are spread out your prettier thoughts, ready for you to put on. I don't know whether you've ever seen a map of a person's mind. Doctors sometimes draw maps of other parts of you, and your own map can become intensely interesting. But catch them trying to draw a map of a child's mind, which is not only confused, but keeps going round all the time. There are zig-zag lines on it, just like your temperature on a card. And these are probably roads in the island. For the Netherlands is always more or less an island, with astonishing splashes of color here and there, and coral reefs, and rakeish looking craft in the offing, and savages, and lonely layers, and knowoms who are mostly tailors, and caves through which river runs, and prints with six elder brothers, and a hut fast going to decay, and one very small little lady with a hook to nose. It would be an easy map of that where all, but there was also first day at school. Religion, fathers, the round pond, needlework, murders, hangings, verbs that take the date of chocolate pudding day, getting into braces, say 993 pens for pulling out your through yourself and so on. And either of these are part of the island, but they are another map showing through, and it is all rather confusing, especially as nothing will stand still. Of course, the Netherlands variant could deal. Johns, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingos flying over it, at which John was shooting. While Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoon flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sands. Michael and a was very small, had a flamingo with the goons flying over it. John lived in a boat turned upside down on the sand. Michael and Oigwam, Wendy and House of Leaves, definitely sewn together. John had no friends. Michael had friends at night. Wendy had a pet wolf for sake and by its parents. But on the whole, the Netherlands have a family resemblance, and if they stood in a row, you could say of them that they have each other's nose and so forth. On these magic shores children at play are forever reaching their corkals. We too have been there. We can still hear the sound of the surf, though we shall land no more. Of all the Electoral Islands, the Netherlands is the snugest and most compact. Not large and spally, you know, with tedious distances between one adventure and another, but nicely crammed. When you play at it, by day, with the chairs in the tablecloth, it is not in the least alarming, but in the two minutes before you go to sleep, it becomes very nearly real. That is why there are nightlights. Occasionally, in her travels through her children's minds, this is darling found she could not understand, and if these quite the most perplexing was the word Peter. She knew of no Peter, and yet he was here and there in John and Michael's minds, while Wendy is began to be scrolled all over him. The name stood out in bolder letters than any of the other words, and as Mrs. Darling gazed, she felt that it had an oddly cocky appearance. Yes, he is rather cocky when he admitted with regret, her mother had been questioning her. But who is he my pet? He is Peter Pan, you know mother. At first, this is darling, did not know. But after thinking back into her childhood, she just remembered a Peter Pan who was said to live with the fairies. There were odd stories about him, as that when children died, he went part of the way with them so that they should not be frightened. She had believed in him at the time, but now that she was married and full of sense, she quite doubted whether there was any such person. Besides, she said to Wendy, ""He would be grown up by this time."" Oh no, he isn't grown up when he assured her confidently, and he is just my size. She meant that he was her size in both mind and body. She didn't know how she knew it. She just knew it. This is darling consulted Mr. Darling, but he smiled poo poo. Mark my words, he said, ""It is just some nonsense now that he's been putting into their heads just the sort of idea that dog would have. Leave it alone and it will blow over. But it would not blow over. And soon, the trouble symbol I gave Mrs. Darlin quite a shock. Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them. For instance, they may remember to mention a week after the event happened, but when they were in the wood, they met their dead father and had a game with them. It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a describing revelation. Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there when the children went to bed. And this is darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a taller smile, ""I do believe it is that Peter again. Whatever do you mean Wendy?"" ""It is so not he of him not to wipe Wendy's head saying she was a tidy child. She explained in quite a matter of fact why that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipester. never woke, so she didn't know how she knew. She just knew. What nonsense you talk precious? No one can get into the house without knocking. I think he comes by the window, she said. My love, it is three floors up. We're not the leaves of the foot of the window mother. It was quite true, the leaves had been found in the window. This is darling, I did not know what to think. I heard all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying that she had been dreaming. My child, the mother cried, ""Why did you not tell me of this before?"" I forgot, said Wendy, like she was not heard of her, she was not afraid to get her breakfast. Oh, surely she must have been dreaming. But on the other hand, there were the leaves. Mrs. Darling examined them carefully. They were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England. She crawled about the floor, peering it with a candle from her extravagant foot. She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls. She let it take down from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of 30 feet, without so much as a spout to climb up by. Certainly when he had been dreaming, but when he had not been dreaming, is the very next night's showed, the night on which the extraordinary adventures of these children may be said to have begun. On the night we speak of, all the children were once more in bed. It happened to be men as evening off, and this is darling had made them and sung to them, till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep. All we're looking so safe and cozy that she smiled at her fears now, and sat down tranquil by the fire to sew. It was something for Michael, who on his birthday was getting into shirts. The fire was warm however, and the nursery didn't look at three night lights. And presently, the sewing line was the only way to make it to the fire. I had this darling flap. Then her head nodded. Oh, so gracefully. She was asleep. Look at the four of them. Wendy and Michael over there. John here, and Mrs. Darling by the fire. There should have been a fourth nightlight. While she slept, she had a dream. She dreamt that the neverland had come toon here, and that a strange boy had broken through from it. He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women who have no children. Perhaps, he used to be found in the faces of some others also. But in her dream, he had rent the film that obscures the neverland, and she saw Wendy and John and Michael, keeping through the gap. The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she was dreaming, the window of the nursery blew open and it boy did drop on the floor. He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your first, which started about the room like a living thing, and I think it must have been this life we can do this is darling. She started up with a cry and saw the boy, and somehow she knew it once that he was Peter Panned. If you or I, or Wendy, had been there, we should have seen that he was very like Mrs. Darling's kiss. He was a lovely boy, cloud and skeletonleton lead some producers that moved out of trees, but the most interesting thing about him was that he had all his first teeth. When he saw she was a grownup, he gnashed the little pearls there. End of chapter 1. Recorded by Meredith Hughes, Little Compton, Rhode Island, December 30, 2005.","[{""start"": 0, ""end"": 4, ""text"": ""This is a Librevox Recording.""}, {""start"": 4, ""end"": 7, ""text"": ""All Librevox recordings are in the public domain.""}, {""start"": 7, ""end"": 12, ""text"": ""For more information or to volunteer, please visit Librevox.org.""}, {""start"": 12, ""end"": 20, ""text"": ""Recording by Meredith Hughes, Peter Pan, by J.M. Barry.""}, {""start"": 20, ""end"": 24, ""text"": ""Chapter 1. Peter breaks through.""}, {""start"": 24, ""end"": 25.28, ""text"": ""All children accept one. 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And soon, the trouble symbol I gave Mrs. Darlin quite a shock.""}, {""start"": 788, ""end"": 793, ""text"": ""Children have the strangest adventures without being troubled by them.""}, {""start"": 793, ""end"": 797, ""text"": ""For instance, they may remember to mention a week after the event happened, but when""}, {""start"": 797, ""end"": 801, ""text"": ""they were in the wood, they met their dead father and had a game with them.""}, {""start"": 801, ""end"": 805.92, ""text"": ""It was in this casual way that Wendy one morning made a describing revelation.""}, {""start"": 805.92, ""end"": 810.64, ""text"": ""Some leaves of a tree had been found on the nursery floor, which certainly were not there""}, {""start"": 810.64, ""end"": 812.48, ""text"": ""when the children went to bed.""}, {""start"": 812.48, ""end"": 816.24, ""text"": ""And this is darling was puzzling over them when Wendy said with a taller smile,""}, {""start"": 816.24, ""end"": 819.52, ""text"": ""\""I do believe it is that Peter again.""}, {""start"": 819.52, ""end"": 821.52, ""text"": ""Whatever do you mean Wendy?\""""}, {""start"": 821.52, ""end"": 829, ""text"": ""\""It is so not he of him not to wipe Wendy's head saying she was a tidy child.""}, {""start"": 829, ""end"": 839, ""text"": ""She explained in quite a matter of fact why that she thought Peter sometimes came to the nursery in the night and sat on the foot of her bed and played on his pipester.""}, {""start"": 840, ""end"": 844, ""text"": ""never woke, so she didn't know how she knew. She just knew.""}, {""start"": 844, ""end"": 847, ""text"": ""What nonsense you talk precious?""}, {""start"": 847, ""end"": 850, ""text"": ""No one can get into the house without knocking.""}, {""start"": 850, ""end"": 853, ""text"": ""I think he comes by the window, she said.""}, {""start"": 853, ""end"": 856, ""text"": ""My love, it is three floors up.""}, {""start"": 856, ""end"": 860, ""text"": ""We're not the leaves of the foot of the window mother.""}, {""start"": 860, ""end"": 864, ""text"": ""It was quite true, the leaves had been found in the window.""}, {""start"": 864, ""end"": 866.8, ""text"": ""This is darling, I did not know what to think.""}, {""start"": 866.8, ""end"": 870.52, ""text"": ""I heard all seemed so natural to Wendy that you could not dismiss it by saying that""}, {""start"": 870.52, ""end"": 871.8, ""text"": ""she had been dreaming.""}, {""start"": 871.8, ""end"": 876.64, ""text"": ""My child, the mother cried, \""Why did you not tell me of this before?\""""}, {""start"": 876.64, ""end"": 880.5, ""text"": ""I forgot, said Wendy, like she was not heard of her, she was not afraid to get""}, {""start"": 880.5, ""end"": 881.5, ""text"": ""her breakfast.""}, {""start"": 881.5, ""end"": 885, ""text"": ""Oh, surely she must have been dreaming.""}, {""start"": 885, ""end"": 889, ""text"": ""But on the other hand, there were the leaves.""}, {""start"": 889, ""end"": 891, ""text"": ""Mrs. Darling examined them carefully.""}, {""start"": 891, ""end"": 896, ""text"": ""They were skeleton leaves, but she was sure they did not come from any tree that grew in England.""}, {""start"": 896, ""end"": 901, ""text"": ""She crawled about the floor, peering it with a candle from her extravagant foot.""}, {""start"": 901, ""end"": 904, ""text"": ""She rattled the poker up the chimney and tapped the walls.""}, {""start"": 904, ""end"": 909.28, ""text"": ""She let it take down from the window to the pavement, and it was a sheer drop of 30 feet,""}, {""start"": 909.28, ""end"": 916.64, ""text"": ""without so much as a spout to climb up by. Certainly when he had been dreaming, but when""}, {""start"": 916.64, ""end"": 921.76, ""text"": ""he had not been dreaming, is the very next night's showed, the night on which the extraordinary""}, {""start"": 921.76, ""end"": 927, ""text"": ""adventures of these children may be said to have begun.""}, {""start"": 927, ""end"": 930, ""text"": ""On the night we speak of, all the children were once more in bed.""}, {""start"": 930, ""end"": 935, ""text"": ""It happened to be men as evening off, and this is darling had made them and sung to them,""}, {""start"": 935, ""end"": 941, ""text"": ""till one by one they had let go her hand and slid away into the land of sleep.""}, {""start"": 941, ""end"": 946.3199999999999, ""text"": ""All we're looking so safe and cozy that she smiled at her fears now, and sat down""}, {""start"": 946.3199999999999, ""end"": 948.3199999999999, ""text"": ""tranquil by the fire to sew.""}, {""start"": 948.3199999999999, ""end"": 953.64, ""text"": ""It was something for Michael, who on his birthday was getting into shirts.""}, {""start"": 953.64, ""end"": 958.04, ""text"": ""The fire was warm however, and the nursery didn't look at three night lights.""}, {""start"": 958.04, ""end"": 960.04, ""text"": ""And presently, the sewing line was the only way to make it to the fire.""}, {""start"": 960, ""end"": 962, ""text"": ""I had this darling flap.""}, {""start"": 962, ""end"": 964, ""text"": ""Then her head nodded.""}, {""start"": 964, ""end"": 965, ""text"": ""Oh, so gracefully.""}, {""start"": 965, ""end"": 967, ""text"": ""She was asleep.""}, {""start"": 967, ""end"": 969, ""text"": ""Look at the four of them.""}, {""start"": 969, ""end"": 971, ""text"": ""Wendy and Michael over there.""}, {""start"": 971, ""end"": 975, ""text"": ""John here, and Mrs. Darling by the fire.""}, {""start"": 975, ""end"": 978, ""text"": ""There should have been a fourth nightlight.""}, {""start"": 978, ""end"": 981, ""text"": ""While she slept, she had a dream.""}, {""start"": 981, ""end"": 984, ""text"": ""She dreamt that the neverland had come toon here,""}, {""start"": 984, ""end"": 986.2, ""text"": ""and that a strange boy had broken""}, {""start"": 986.2, ""end"": 987.2, ""text"": ""through from it.""}, {""start"": 987.2, ""end"": 992.12, ""text"": ""He did not alarm her, for she thought she had seen him before in the faces of many women""}, {""start"": 992.12, ""end"": 993.72, ""text"": ""who have no children.""}, {""start"": 993.72, ""end"": 998.56, ""text"": ""Perhaps, he used to be found in the faces of some others also.""}, {""start"": 998.56, ""end"": 1003.72, ""text"": ""But in her dream, he had rent the film that obscures the neverland, and she saw Wendy""}, {""start"": 1003.72, ""end"": 1011, ""text"": ""and John and Michael, keeping through the gap. The dream by itself would have been a trifle, but while she""}, {""start"": 1011, ""end"": 1016, ""text"": ""was dreaming, the window of the nursery blew open and it boy did drop on the floor.""}, {""start"": 1016, ""end"": 1021.24, ""text"": ""He was accompanied by a strange light, no bigger than your first, which started about""}, {""start"": 1021.24, ""end"": 1026.5, ""text"": ""the room like a living thing, and I think it must have been this life we can do this is darling.""}, {""start"": 1026.5, ""end"": 1032.28, ""text"": ""She started up with a cry and saw the boy, and somehow she knew it once that he was""}, {""start"": 1032.28, ""end"": 1033.28, ""text"": ""Peter Panned.""}, {""start"": 1033.28, ""end"": 1038.72, ""text"": ""If you or I, or Wendy, had been there, we should have seen that he was very like Mrs.""}, {""start"": 1038.72, ""end"": 1039.72, ""text"": ""Darling's kiss.""}, {""start"": 1039.72, ""end"": 1045.44, ""text"": ""He was a lovely boy, cloud and skeletonleton lead some producers that moved out of trees,""}, {""start"": 1045.44, ""end"": 1049.84, ""text"": ""but the most interesting thing about him was that he had all his first teeth.""}, {""start"": 1049.84, ""end"": 1055.04, ""text"": ""When he saw she was a grownup, he gnashed the little pearls there.""}, {""start"": 1058.04, ""end"": 1060.12, ""text"": ""End of chapter 1.""}, {""start"": 1060.12, ""end"": 1062.28, ""text"": ""Recorded by Meredith Hughes,""}, {""start"": 1062.28, ""end"": 1066.48, ""text"": ""Little Compton, Rhode Island, December 30, 2005.""}]" | |