Henry Charles Lea’s monumental four volume History of the Spanish Inquisition, published in 1906-1907 was considered groundbreaking at the time. (Finish with whoops, huzzahs, as the spirit moves you.)Ībove: “Universal Light,” December 2016 Henry Charles Lea (1825- 1909) There are more books waiting on the doorstep – We also sang an original 11th Anniversary LibriVox song, written by Maria Kasper, which is included in the collection: Our contributors came up with many imaginative eleven-themed selections, and we ended with a diverse group of readings, which included “Eleven Important Duck Foods,” and a short story by Kafka, “Elf Söhne,” read in German.
(1890)” And it was pointed out to me that my bargain decorating scheme did not include indoor plumbing. My contribution to the collection was an essentially silly “How to Furnish and Decorate an Eleven Hundred Dollar Cottage. I discovered quite a few things about “11.” Then, of course, I had to search for readings that related to the number eleven, which is how I discovered the missing eleven days of 1752! So, I volunteered to coordinate the 11th LibriVox anniversary collection. Just celebrate the big anniversaries? the ones with fives or zeros? My immediate response to this line of reasoning was “that’s youth speaking!” My husband and I had just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary in 2015, and I was exquisitely aware how precious each and every anniversary had become. There were murmurs that it would be hard to find works that related to “11.” And then, the question was posed whether we really needed to celebrate “each and every anniversary” and “not just the big ones with fives or zeros.” Here, time and enthusiasm seemed to stall. The first collection of recordings, which focused on the number “5” morphed into collections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, and - then came eleven. LibriVox is a quirky group of volunteers, and we have, since our 5th year (2010) annually celebrated our existence with an eclectic, multi-lingual, melange of prose, poetry, and song held together by some reference to the anniversary number. Which brings me, by a leap of time travel, to the 11th Anniversary of LibriVox. Selective amnesia was being called for, and I prefer clarity and continuity. Those missing days would have stayed in my head.
I am quite sure I would have been troubled by the year 1752. Parliament also decreed that “the natural day next immediately following the second day of September (1752) shall be called, reckoned and accounted to be the fourteenth day of September, omitting for that time only the eleven intermediate nominal days.” In other words, those eleven days of September 1752 would never happen. Parliament mandated that, beginning in 1752, the new year would begin on January 1. The old-style year had always begun on March 25. To align dates with the seasons of the year necessitated Draconian measures. In 1750, the British Parliament threw out the Julian calendar. Be prepared for something different!Ībove: a detail from “Continuity,” January 31, 2015 PerrineĪnd here is a SoundCloud remix using some of “Words of Two Syllables” by Stromstoff, who is a member of LibriVox. If you’re looking for something else in a light-hearted vein:ĭriving the Lincoln Highway, Chicago to Rochelle, Illinois, 1915, by Emily Post Spotting these sequences can make a cheerful diversion anytime! It apparently became a classic educational tool, since the edition I read from was published in 1852.Īfter I read words of two syllables (some of which are shown above) for 33 minutes and 53 seconds straight, I did fall into a sort of rhythmic somnolence, but instead of this putting me to sleep, I began to see all kinds of Freudian (Victorian?) slips in the lists that kept me laughing. The author of the English Spelling Bookwas William Foredyce Mavor (1758-1837), and his book was first published in 1801. However, it is hoped that at least one from the range of topics will lull the busy mind to a state of sweet sleep.” My contribution to this collection was “Words of Two Syllables, a Selection from The English Spelling Book.” Just for fun is how I interpret some of LibriVox’s group collections, including The Insomnia Collection, which bills itself thusly: “Soporific dullness is in the ear of the listener, and what’s tedium to one person will be another’s passion and delight.
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