Ruth

I'm not sure if it's a sin to listen before publication on legamus, but I sampled some of your story. Your voice is more beautiful than ever; up there with Dame Janet Baker in the quiet passages of Mahler songs.

Martin

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Section 23 is PL all OK. Best wishes for 2013.

Martin

Hi Andrew

Section 22 once again PL all OK.

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Martin

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Section 20 spot-checked; now all OK.

New Section 21 perfectly PL OK.

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Martin

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Section 20 is PL OK except for an unedited repeat of the name at 22:53 - the French text has this as "M. Molé", although my Kindle download had left off the accent in the translation.

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Martin

Hi Section 19 is all PL OK, except for a pronunciation detail, which you have asked me to note where appropriate. You have started in this section to award Mme de Villeparisis an extra syllable (a final i ). Like Charlus and other quasi-Latin or Italianate old family names (e.g. de Médici s ), it's ...

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Uploading Section 12 (STRIKE-PAY). My word, that was difficult. Interesting to hear again the East Midland "Sorry" - the dialect survival of the Shakespearean "Sirrah."

http://ge.tt/5DZygYO/v/0

Duration - 23:56

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Martin

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Just checking in, to note I've done the recording of my story and am about to start editing.

Dont't expect too much, Algy - it's over 30 years since I rubbed shoulders with a miner...

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Now marked PL OK.

The only name which has made me positively wince so far was a couple of sections back when you took the final s from the Baron de Charlus. Definitely a hissing sound is called for when he returns - Sharr-L/i ɡʁɛk/ SS.

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Martin

Hi There are 3 unedited repeats in Section 18: @36:01 The sentence: "But this time she must have reckoned ... as though to a grown-up person." Repeated in entirety from 36:21. @41:58 "Oh well, you know ... condescension." Repeated to correct final word quoted. @43:20 from "Y...

Spot checked for edits and confirmed all OK.

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Martin

Hi Kristin The dialogue is mostly in the dialect of the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border. I lived in that area in the 1970s. Please take a listen to this YouTube video of local people reading from a text by an author from D H Lawrence's own home village. I hope this gives you some useful guidance w...

Two edits are needed -

At 1:31 you read "crusts" for "crests";

and at 7:06 you began the sentence from "At Combray..." and then restarted it at 7:16 - so need to remove the aborted passage 7:06 through to 7:16.

Otherwise fine.

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Martin

Excellently done. I love the Balbec parts. I was a lad growing up in Llandudno when I first read Proust and their respective Grand Hotels coalesced in my imagination.

All PL OK

Martin

Hi Section 15 PL OK. Some marvellous writing in this. Sometimes I feel: "I know exactly what he is feeling there..." - but then I wonder if I would know how to "feel" it if Proust had not taught me how to feel in the course of my earlier readings of the novel. Best regards Martin

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Everything fine with Section 14 - PL all OK.

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Martin

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Looking forward to listening, but for the moment cannot access the audio.

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Section 13 - PL all OK. I got so mesmerised trying to imagine the complexities of Odette's togs that I nearly forgot to alight from the train at Guildford.

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Martin

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The English translation preserves the Proustian headings (Place-Names: The Name, etc) as the main titles of the work's constituent parts, so I agree that these are the real divisions.

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Martin

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All's PL OK. I could really appreciate from your reading the sadness and self-delusion in Marcel's rejection of Gilberte.

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Martin