The Powder of Sympathy by Christopher Morley read by Various Part 1/2 | Full Audio Book

The Powder of Sympathy by Christopher Morley (1890 - 1957)
Genre(s): Essays & Short Works

Read by: Winnifred Assmann, quartertone, ChristopherKloko, John Leloup, Natalie Fortier, Stacey Malcolm, SC1701, Mu, CCam, valroth, Amos Buchanan, AlexaTindallVA, tshoes76, Frederick O'Brien, Ann Boulais, April6090 in English

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Chapters:
00:00:00 - 00 - Epigraph and Dedication
00:07:24 - 01 - An Oxford Symbol
00:17:39 - 02 - Scapegoats
00:25:18 - 03 - To a New Yorker a Hundred Years Hence
00:31:30 - 04 - A Call for the Author
00:35:57 - 05 - Mr. Pepys's Christmases
00:44:44 - 06 - Children as Copy
00:53:03 - 07 - Hail, Kinsprit!
00:57:00 - 08 - Round Manhattan Island
01:03:38 - 09 - The Unknown Citizen
01:10:21 - 10 - Sir Kenelm Digby
01:39:27 - 11 - First Impressions of an Amiable Visitor
01:45:48 - 12 - In Honorem: Martha Washington
01:51:43 - 13 - According to Hoyle
01:56:25 - 14 - L. E. W.
02:01:21 - 15 - Our Extension Course
02:06:58 - 16 - Some Recipes
02:13:33 - 17 - Adventures of a Curricular Engineer
02:20:48 - 18 - Santayana in the Subway
02:34:04 - 19 - Madonna of the Taxis
02:40:31 - 20 - Matthew Arnold and Exodontia
02:57:30 - 21 - Dame Quickly and the Boilroaster
03:07:22 - 22 - Vacationing with De Quincey
03:39:02 - 23 - The Spanish Sultry
03:46:23 - 24 - What Kind of a Dog?
03:50:49 - 25 - A Letter from Gissing
03:55:14 - 26 - July 8, 1822
04:01:55 - 27 - Midsummer in Salamis
04:10:08 - 28 - The Story of Ginger Cubes
04:51:46 - 29 - The Editor at the Ball Game
05:02:48 - 30 - The Dame Explores Westchester
05:13:34 - 31 - The Power and the Glory
05:19:34 - 32 - Gissing Joins a Country Club
05:28:50 - 33 - Three Stars on the Back Stoop
05:36:19 - 34 - A Christmas Card
05:43:50 - 35 - Symbols and Paradoxes
05:52:02 - 36 - The Return to Town
05:59:14 - 37 - Maxims and Minims
06:54:00 - 38 - Two Reviews

Another collection of mostly short 'soliloquys' from Christopher Morley, an American literary luminary, who introduces them thus: '… these pieces were written, day by day, out of the pressure and hilarity and contention of the mind. I have made no attempt to conceal their ephemeral origin. They were almost all written for a newspaper, and contain many references to journalism. … it is remarkable that they should have been written at all: remarkable that any newspaper should take the pains to offer space to speculations of this sort. I have not scrupled, on occasion, to chaff some of the matters newspapers are supposed to hold sacred. …But a columnist … is only a deboshed Editorial Writer, a fallen angel abjected from the secure heaven of anonymity. … unsuspecting whether intended by his scheming employer as a decoy, or a doormat, or a gargoyle, or a lightning rod (how is he to know, never having been given instruction of any sort except to go ahead and write as he pleases?) … [T]he columnist pursues his task and gradually distils a philosophy of his own out of his duties. Oddly enough, instead of growing more cautious by reason of his exposure, he becomes almost dangerously candid. He knows that if he is wrong he will be set right the next morning by a stack of letters varying in number according to the nature of his indiscretion. - Summary by Winnifred Assmann and excerpts from the PrefaceNote: 'The word ... niggardly [used in section 42, is] ... etymologically unrelated to the highly offensive and inflammatory racial slur euphemistically referred to as the N-word, despite the ... visual and auditory resemblance to it.' Merriam-Webster