tripu @tripu@social.cleverlibre.org
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
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> _“Think of #audiobooks as entertainment modes in themselves. […] It’s still possible to commune with a great soul in this way, but first and foremost, it’s with the soul of an actor—nothing wrong with that, but not necessarily what I’m looking for.”_
> _“#Audiobooks aren’t like reading the #book. #Reading is a more intimate connection between one person and another. When one reads a book, one communes with the author. Sure, editors and publishers have some say in what goes into a book, but the roles of these people and entities are often transparent compared to the fundamental communication from writer to reader. In the audiobook form, there’s a soul obtrusively in between the writer and reader—the narrator—who takes over the role as central communicator. Even if the text is read word-for-word, the way the narrator’s voice sounds is too present and their inflections too dominant not to be the main influencer of the experience.”_
> _“The consolation prize of so much #commuting meant I could [read and] listen to [#podcasts] as much as I wanted.”_
> _“The one constant of my #reading life is that I always want to read more.”_
> _“The painful truth of my #reading life is that I read slowly. It’s not uncommon for me to read only 10 or 20 pages per night. […] [Over the course of a year, that comes to roughly [ten 370-page-long] books.](https://www.goodreads.com/review/stats/64930929-tripu) This isn’t a horribly small number, but […] I have to be selective.”_
> _“I’m a devoted reader. I want to be a dedicated audience to whatever #book I’m reading. […] I want to commune with a great mind, wordsmith, soul. For the right experience, I submit myself to it willingly.”_
A recent article on #Quillette on #TheGreatestBooks, #books, #literature (and #audiobooks):
https://quillette.com/2021/07/28/listening-to-literature-what-we-gain-and-lose-with-audiobooks/
I felt identified with so much, that here go eight direct #quotes that I make my own, where I made just a few edits (between square brackets):
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Sorry, I wasn't very clear. I meant my site where I use my real name — not tripu.info . The one I link to on LinkedIn etc.
I don't think that expecting everybody to be “wealthy enough to have their necessities covered” is “pragmatic”.
I believe in progress, too. But precisely because I'm pragmatic I assume fallible individuals, misfortune, illness, disasters, etc.
Even in a very wealthy and egalitarian society there'll be people who find themselves destitute, maimed, threatened… People who give birth to a sextuplet, who are born predisposed to sabotage their own lives (addiction, self-harm), who lose all their family members at a very young age, etc.
My thought experiment appeared farcical — that's why it's a thought experiment. But even in a much more prosperous society, there'll always be an **A** and a **Z**, _by definition_. Those two may never stumbled upon each other by chance as depicted, but they are still fellow citizens and coetaneous. As I see it, the challenge stands.
Sometimes I wish I had a “#couple's dashcam” — recording in a loop the conversations my wife and I have — so that we can resolve on the spot silly misunderstandings about whether I said “always” or “often”, she said “our” or “your”, etc.
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We (@w3c) are #hiring our Web Accessibility Development and Operations Lead
https://w3.org/blog/news/archives/9174
This is full-time position, based in Europe. Works starts on September 1, 2021.
Please, apply 🙏 Please, boost 🙏
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The Darkest Hour by Annibale Siconolfi
Technologist, Spaniard, male, 42
Joined May 2020
