1st Person Narrator - From God Knows

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Description

This is a brief demo of a first person narrator reading. It is from the novel \"God Knows\" by Joseph Heller and includes a short passage in biblical Hebrew.

Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Middle Aged (35-54)

Accents

North American (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
And even now in my shivering decrepitude, I am disposed to glow with pride and thrill with sexual thoughts at the picture of all those barelegged girls and women in their tossing skirts of brilliant scarlet blue and purple, kicking up their sun brown knees as they streamed out out jubilantly from one hillside village and city after the next to meet us with tats and other instruments of music as we trooped back victorious once more, hailing us gloriously again and again with that exultant beguiling refrain, Saul hath slain his thousands and David his 10 thousands in the original. It's even better imagine how Saul took to that one I didn't imagine. And the next thing I knew I was dodging javelins to save my ass and running for my life. You think you've had problems with in-laws? I had a father-in-law who wanted to kill me. Why? Only because I was too good. That's why those were the days when butter wouldn't melt in my mouth. I couldn't do a single thing wrong if I had tried, I couldn't make a bad impression on anyone if I wanted to on anyone but Saul, even his daughter took a shine to me and turned out a bitter shrew as the first of my 13, 14 or 15 wives, Misha saved my life once. It's true. But that hardly justified. All the vicious nagging I was subjected to afterward. Wherever Saul sent me to fight. I went and the better I was able to serve him in war against the Philistines. The greater grew his envious and furious suspicions that I was slated to replace him and was scheming already to do so. Was that fair? Was it my fault? People liked me.