Reading from \"Alices Adventures in Wonderland\" by Lewis Carroll
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EnglishVoice Age
Young Adult (18-35)Accents
British (England - Cockney, Estuary, East End) North American (General) North American (South West - Texas) North American (US South)Transcript
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Hello, my name is Don Outlaw. And today for my demo, I'm going to be reading, uh, the first few pages of Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. You'll notice during the demo, I will switch accents and cadences and tonality several times, uh, to give you an idea of the range that I have. I appreciate you taking ah, listen to my demo and I hope to hear from you soon. Alice was beginning to get very tired of sitting by her sister on the bank and of having nothing to do. Once or twice. She had peeped into the book her sister was reading, but it had no pictures or conversations in it. And what is the use of a book Thought Alice without pictures or conversation she was considering in her own mind as well as she could for the hot day made her very sleepy and stupid. Whether the pleasure of making a daisy chain would be worth the trouble of getting up and picking the daisies when suddenly ah, white rabbit with pink eyes ran close by her. There was nothing so very remarkable in that, Nor did Alice think it was so very out of the way to hear the rabbit say to itself, Oh, dear, oh, dear, I shall be late. When she thought it over afterwards, it occurred to her that she ought to have wondered at this, but at the time, it all seemed quite natural. But when the rabbit actually took a watch out of its Waste Coast pocket and looked at it and then hurried on, Alice started to her feet, for it flashed across her mind that she had never before seen a rabbit with either a waistcoat pocket or a watch to take out of it. And burning with curiosity, she ran across the field after it, unfortunately, was just in time to see it pop down a large rabbit hole under the hedge. In another moment, down went Alice after it, never once considering how in the world she was going to get out again. The rabbit hole went straight on like a tunnel for some weight and then dipped suddenly down so suddenly that Alice had not a moment to think about stopping herself before she had found herself falling down a very deep well. Either the well was very deep or she was falling very slowly before she had plenty of times. She went down to look about her and wander. What was it going on and what was it gonna happen next? First she tried to look down and make out what she was coming to, but it was too dark to see anything. And she looked at the sides of the well and noticed that they were filled with cupboards and bookshelves here and there. She saw maps and pictures, hung upon pegs, and she took down a jar from one of the shelves as she passed it. And it was labeled orange marmalade. But to her great disappointment, it was empty. Okay? She did not like to drop the jar for feeler of killing somebody. So she managed to put it on one of the coverage as she fell. Passed in well thought Alice to herself. After such a fall is dis I shall think nothing of tumbling down stairs. How brave they'll all think of me at home. While I wouldn't say anything about it, even if I fell off of the top of the house, which was very likely true. Down, down, down Would the fall never come to an end. I wonder how many miles I've fallen by this time, she said aloud. I must be getting somewhere near the center of the earth. Let me see. That would be 4000 miles down, I think for you. See, Alice had learned several things of this sort in her lessons in the school room. And though this was not a very good opportunity for showing off her knowledge as there was no time or no one to listen to her, still it was good practice to say it over. Yes, that's about the right distance. But when I wonder what latitude and longitude I've got to? Alice had no idea what latitude was nor longitude either, but she thought they were nice grand words to say. Presently she began again. I wonder if I shall fall raw through the earth. How funny. It'll seem to come out among the people that walk with their heads downward the antipathies. I think she was rather glad that there was no one listening this time, as it didn't sound at all the right word. But I shall have to ask them what the name of the country is. You know. Please ma'am. Is this New Zealand or Australia? She tried to curtsy as she spoke. Fancy curtsying as you're walking through the air. Do you think you could even managing? What an ignorant little girl She'll she'll thank me for asking? No, it'll never do to ask. Perhaps I'll see it written up somewhere down, down, down There was nothing else to do. So Alice soon began talking again. Dine will miss me very much Tonight. I should think Dina was the cat. I hope they'll remember her saucer of milk at teatime. Dina, my dear, I wish you were here with me. There are no mice in the air, I'm afraid, But you might catch a bat. And that is very much like a mouse, you know? But do cats eat bats? I wonder. And here Alice began to get rather sleepy and went on saying to herself in a dreamy sort of way, Do cats eat bats? Do cats eat bats and sometimes do bats eat cats for you? See, if she couldn't answer either question, it didn't matter much which way she put it. She felt that she was dozing off and had just begun to dream that she was walking hand in hand with Dina and saying to her very earnestly. Now, Dinah, tell me the truth. Did you ever eat a bat? When suddenly thump thump, she came down upon a heap of sticks and dry leaves, and the fall was over.