Character voice read of Archy & Mehitabel

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Craig Roberts

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This is a short excerpt from Don Marquis' book \"Archy & Mehitabel\", a collection of free verse poems written by Archy, a typewriting cockroach who inhabits a New York City newspaper editorial office along with his friend, Mehitabel, the office cat. The \"narrator\" is Archy.

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Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

North American (General) North American (US New York, New Jersey, Bronx, Brooklyn)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
boss. I am disappointed in some of your readers. They're always asking, How does aren't you work The shift? So is to get a new line. Or how does Archie do this or do that? They're always interested in technical details when the main question is whether the stuff is literature or not. I wish you would leave that book of George Moore's On the Floor, The Hittable, the Cat I want to read it. I have discovered that more hittable, so formerly inhabited a human also. At least that's what Marketable is claiming these days. Maybe she got jealous of my prestige. Anyhow, she and I have been talking it over in a friendly way. Who were you? Miserable? I asked her. I was Cleopatra once, she said. Well, I said, I suppose you lived in a palace. You bet, she said. And what lovely fish dinners we used to have And Lichter chops