J.R. Cox - Adult Audiobook Reel
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Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
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a vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless without movement, so loan and cold. The spirit of it was not even that of sadness. There was a hint in it, of laughter, but of a laughter more terrible than any sadness. It was the masterful and in communicable wisdom of eternity, laughing at the futility of life and the effort of life. It was the wild, the savage, frozen hearted Northland wild. Like many other philosophers who greatly extended our knowledge of nature, Galileo had a remarkable aptitude for the invention of instruments designed for philosophical research. To facilitate his practical work, we find that in 15 99 he had engaged a skilled workmen who was to live in his house and be constantly at hand to try the devices, which were forever springing from Galileo's fertile brain. Call me Ishmael some years ago, never mind how long precisely having little or no money in my purse and nothing particular to interest me on shore. I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth whenever it's a damp, drizzly November in my soul, whenever I find myself in voluntarily pausing before coffin warehouses and bringing up the rear of every funeral procession I meet and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street and methodically knocking people's hats off. Then I account it high time to get to see as soon as I can.