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WT Sharpe · 07-31-2014, 11:57 AM

This morning I started to begin Aubrey Stewart's translation of Of the Shortness of Life by Seneca while I was doing some yard work, but the volume at which the Librivox audiobook was recorded was so low that, even with the volume of both my earbuds and iPod cranked to max, I couldn't hear it over the noise of my reciprocating saw. A pity, as from what I could make out, the reader, Jonathan Hockey, did an excellent job. Of well. I'll listen to it on my PC later. I have some M-Audio speakers connected to my PC whose volume goes all the way to 11.

So what I did listen to this morning was a couple of short stories in the very entertaining so far Short Story Collection 057 at which I'd recently been picking while walking Norton: "Our Lady's Child" by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and "The Golden Poppy" by Jack London. The Brothers Grimm story surprised me, as I didn't expect the Virgin Mary to appear as one of the central characters in a fairy tale. The Jack London tale, while entertaining, appeared to be a thinly disguised political defense of property rights.

07-31-2014, 11:57 AM	#894
WT Sharpe Bah, humbug! Posts: 39,072 Karma: 157049943 Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Chesapeake, VA, USA Device: Kindle Oasis, iPad Pro, & a Samsung Galaxy S9.	This morning I started to begin Aubrey Stewart's translation of Of the Shortness of Life by Seneca while I was doing some yard work, but the volume at which the Librivox audiobook was recorded was so low that, even with the volume of both my earbuds and iPod cranked to max, I couldn't hear it over the noise of my reciprocating saw. A pity, as from what I could make out, the reader, Jonathan Hockey, did an excellent job. Of well. I'll listen to it on my PC later. I have some M-Audio speakers connected to my PC whose volume goes all the way to 11. So what I did listen to this morning was a couple of short stories in the very entertaining so far Short Story Collection 057 at which I'd recently been picking while walking Norton: "Our Lady's Child" by Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm and "The Golden Poppy" by Jack London. The Brothers Grimm story surprised me, as I didn't expect the Virgin Mary to appear as one of the central characters in a fairy tale. The Jack London tale, while entertaining, appeared to be a thinly disguised political defense of property rights.