Yes, this is something most people dont undertand when they see the TV series. There was much more propaganda in the original stories. In the Eye of Appolo, a woman is tricked into removing her glasses by an evil new age man, and i therefore found dead in an elevator shaft. She fell down. And the new age con man of course has ulterior motives. So because she was blind to God in a way, she ended up dead. Of course, if you are very Christian, this would seem true to you. But for most other people, it would indeed be very annoying. They have stripped the TV series completely of this propaganda subtext. But Father Brown is historically a very very important character.

This sound like an audio visual poem inspired by that Pink Floyd movie :)

But there is something called five eyes. But what it actually is, i dont know.

I recorded a story with religious overtones. It is a little sad. It’s by Edward Bellamy. I didn’t actually record all it. I modified the librivox file, simplified language and added an intro. Bellamy’s outline is actually a masterpiece. But his sentences prevent you from grasping it. Here it is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r7VUSwGgqbo

But it is a very dark story. Also, Bellamy was no fan of organized religion.

There is this fantastic nineteenth century tech that i came across, which i think could be improved upon by using lightweight modern carbon stuff, like in a bicycle. It is a laundery wringer. You attatch them to a bucket, and then you place your wet laundery in them and use a crank. It must be of such length that the process does not become toilsome. It removes 95% of all water. Then they hung up the laundery in those days when they were in use, and they dried much quicker. If mass produced, students could just have one under the bed, and fetch it when needed. The problem is that those i see are too expensive and in steel, which means heavy and cumbersome. If Musk could ditch this pointless and overly expensive migration plan to Mars, he could solve this high-tech issue and have them sold at low cost to students?

Let me tell you a thing that is not often mentioned, which I think contributed to the rise of the American right we see today. In the us, unlike in Europe where freedom was economically tied to the rise of lower classes in their struggle against landowners and aristocracy, the notion of freedom implied a freedom from the norms of the majority. This is the old “frontier myth”. Then the prairie was settled, but that myth was entrenched. Then the internet came and opened up an unlimited and unregulated space for these cults and alternative views, and since the technological dynamics constantly drives everyone away from pain and towards pleasure, that is confirmation of existing beliefs, the “echo chambers” mushroomed. Because of historical baggage, the US was predisposed towards eccentricity, in a way. On top of this comes the fact that Congress has always had a very very low approval rating. It is epitomized by the representatives who read the phone book out loud, or filibuster, from the podium in order to sabotage the passing of legislation. At salaries paid by the taxpayer!! Then there is the annual shutdown ritual over the raising of the debt ceiling, which could have been avoided by switching from absolute numbers to a percentage of GDP. But it is a ritual, like the knocking on the door of the British parliament. So they keep it. But it adds an impression that they do nothing, that everything is jammed and that no representatives from different parties ever talk to each other over coffee, and that “hate” remains even after the cameras are off.

Well, the problem is that on these old cylinders there is quite a lot of static noise, and then in addition sometimes a sort or repeating thump every time the cylinder rotates. When you then remove the static and thump, you take some of the fullness of the original voice. I do not doubt that those with better equipment than myself would get a better outcome. But it is not easy. They have a recording of both Queen Victoria and Lord Tennyson. And it is very hard to extract something you can be sure is genuine. I hope these Ai services would set up some template for this. It should actually be quite easy, as the noise profiles on all of these are almost identical, and that subtraction process would be much better. It could be very interesting to hear the oldest voices on wax cylinder. I did this because enjoyed the song, probably because I also used to enjoy drinking :) Some people like other things, that’s ok…:)

That you don’t like the song, I cannot comment on. That is an individual taste. But the original recording was a wax recording, remember that. To get from a wax recording to this is not bad. But I do not know who you are, and you may have much superior skills and resources. I just wanted to mention this wax recording point.

These are actual letters sent to and from Hoover, not fiction. And the subject is politics in 1963. James Baldwin and the others.

Some day, when you grow up, you too will see naked adult women. In the meantime, you can do research online…I recommend pubmed, base and core, as well as anatomical atlas.