audiobooks out of context #7

this is the seventh post in the audio books out of context series. posts in this series publish themselves every (π²√5)² hours. the next post is scheduled for release on february 28th, 2010 at 12:35. by that time j.m. coetzee will have celebrated his 70th birthday and hunter s. thompson, his 5th yahrzeit.

achtung: while these excerpts are presented out of context, i should warn you that before you go blasting the audio throughout the church pew from which you normally browse the ragbag, that this excerpt gets kind of hot and heavy and is therefore enn-ess-eff-double-you. additionally, this audio sample serves to illustrate how what may be sublime on the page can quickly become ridiculous when read aloud.

the previous post in this series was excerpted from (an english translation of) jules verne’s around the world in 80 days (1873). mark matienzo was the first digital archivist at yale to point this out.