November 11, 2026
Here I attempt to lay out the Sequence of my recordings, which is a process to find what would be as close to perfect as possible, when one is continually pondering such a thing, and makes slow progress in it.
1. Edward Gibbon -- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- being over 120 hours, this run through has to be done in long chunks, each chapter is the length of a feature film, so it is best to begin each recording day with a chapter, the 11th here will be on chapter 3.
2. Cicero and Seneca whisk us into those noble realms where honor, valor and stuff like that were cherished.
3. Montaigne and Calvin give us what is to me 2 kinds of believers, the former represents to me at least a warm fuzzy kind of believer that is more welcoming, and the latter being the unfortunate for humans kind of believer who is more rigid concerned with what an ancient text says, and thus wants to convert how life happens to be into it's unrealizable goals.
4. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- I shall read Philosophical Fragments, which is the Prelude to SK's masterpiece of philosophical nature Concluding Unscientific Postscript, which is about 5 times as long as the book it's a postscript of. I found much enlightenment on K from someone on Puritan Board, a place where smart Calvinists congregate, he said that Kierkegaard describes what it feels to be a Christian, but not what they believe. And for Nietzsche, I think what would be best is the audiobook for The Antichrist and Ecce Homo.
5. Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables -- we enter storytime here, story time with substance!!
6. William Gaddis -- The Recognitions -- Modernist storytime ..... the more you know of the references strewn all through this the funnier it is!! When this is done i'll take another crack at either Infinite Jest, or Gravity's Rainbow, which I have an audio for!!
7. Tori Amos -- Resistance -- Tori acts as a News Break in a long daily program
8. Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Idiot -- have to get started!!
9. E.M. Cioran -- now here is like a cognitive oriented History documentary
10. James Boswell -- The Life of Samuel Johnson -- now with this is like a light hearted costume drama infinitely higher in quality than anything Masterpiece Theatre ever did.
emendations mentions -- Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy will be sent to the waiting room to wait till we finish for the first of seven times Montaigne. And it is when Burton goes on, when Proust also goes on, and then oh boy, when Proust is done initially out of a total of 3 times, there will be a personal reading of 2 exquisite modern voices, the best imo for female and male -- Clarice Lispector and Robert Walser, if I was a literary matchmaker I'd set those 2 up, and Robert would never have walked out to never return that odd and sad day when he never came back to the asylum he was staying at at the time, no he'd be getting a tan in Brazil with Clarice making him laugh every day with crazy puppet shows he never gets tired of.
Space below here for the Playlist for this day:
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1. Edward Gibbon -- The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -- being over 120 hours, this run through has to be done in long chunks, each chapter is the length of a feature film, so it is best to begin each recording day with a chapter, the 11th here will be on chapter 3.
2. Cicero and Seneca whisk us into those noble realms where honor, valor and stuff like that were cherished.
3. Montaigne and Calvin give us what is to me 2 kinds of believers, the former represents to me at least a warm fuzzy kind of believer that is more welcoming, and the latter being the unfortunate for humans kind of believer who is more rigid concerned with what an ancient text says, and thus wants to convert how life happens to be into it's unrealizable goals.
4. Kierkegaard and Nietzsche -- I shall read Philosophical Fragments, which is the Prelude to SK's masterpiece of philosophical nature Concluding Unscientific Postscript, which is about 5 times as long as the book it's a postscript of. I found much enlightenment on K from someone on Puritan Board, a place where smart Calvinists congregate, he said that Kierkegaard describes what it feels to be a Christian, but not what they believe. And for Nietzsche, I think what would be best is the audiobook for The Antichrist and Ecce Homo.
5. Victor Hugo -- Les Miserables -- we enter storytime here, story time with substance!!
6. William Gaddis -- The Recognitions -- Modernist storytime ..... the more you know of the references strewn all through this the funnier it is!! When this is done i'll take another crack at either Infinite Jest, or Gravity's Rainbow, which I have an audio for!!
7. Tori Amos -- Resistance -- Tori acts as a News Break in a long daily program
8. Fyodor Dostoevsky -- The Idiot -- have to get started!!
9. E.M. Cioran -- now here is like a cognitive oriented History documentary
10. James Boswell -- The Life of Samuel Johnson -- now with this is like a light hearted costume drama infinitely higher in quality than anything Masterpiece Theatre ever did.
emendations mentions -- Robert Burton's The Anatomy of Melancholy will be sent to the waiting room to wait till we finish for the first of seven times Montaigne. And it is when Burton goes on, when Proust also goes on, and then oh boy, when Proust is done initially out of a total of 3 times, there will be a personal reading of 2 exquisite modern voices, the best imo for female and male -- Clarice Lispector and Robert Walser, if I was a literary matchmaker I'd set those 2 up, and Robert would never have walked out to never return that odd and sad day when he never came back to the asylum he was staying at at the time, no he'd be getting a tan in Brazil with Clarice making him laugh every day with crazy puppet shows he never gets tired of.
Space below here for the Playlist for this day:
©SmartyPantInc
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