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| | | From: Susan (Original Message) | Sent: 1/3/2001 2:48 AM |
Tanganyika [click on .wav file or download from link] Following the length of the Nile, Due South, Southwesterly – Lies Lake Tanganyika. From the Nile’s source, As the river flows, Carving its steep gorge Through the rock – Meandering, Side to side, Building levees from the sediment Left next to the river channels On the floodplain – She guillotines a loop of her meander Over time, And an oxbow-like lake appears, Creating, with mud and silt, a delta – Colonized by Aves, Plantae, Insecta – Freshwater Art – Amid tiger fish, Tamarind trees, Even the buffalo In the hinterlands. 01/01/01 Copyright©2001 Susan Katz. All rights reserved. [if you get a page which says "Action Cancelled" - just close it.] |
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| | | From: helen | Sent: 1/3/2001 6:53 AM |
Nice work....I'd like to hear it read with less pausing....the water moving fluidly....like it does after a hard rain. |
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| | | From: Susan | Sent: 1/3/2001 6:59 AM |
less pause??? ya kiddin' right? if there were any fewer spaces between words i'd be sucked into a black hole! needed to get it under the 1MB max. this was a speed-read for me. the vowels tend to meander a bit. hahahahaha thanks helen. how we doin' on fixin' yer sound? susan |
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| | | From: Susan | Sent: 1/4/2001 6:09 AM |
i realize now, i think the interpretation is different for you than me. i hesitated to record this in the first place, because i could tell the readings were all different, based on the comments. but the central image is not the flowing of the river, or its swell, like Noah's flood, but the Lake - and its origins, the genesis. the region itself in its pure state. don't laugh if i say, "Dr. Livingston, I presume?" i told you not to laugh. helen. susan  |
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actually, i like the flow and how it upons a Lake. (note: if Media Player kicks in and sounds the .wav file as it is being downloaded, you may hear numerous unitneded pauses caused by interrupts in the file transmission. To hear a/this piece as intended with just the intended pauses, after the download is complete, you may need to play it again, Sam.) |
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| | | From: Susan | Sent: 1/5/2001 5:15 AM |
j, i've played it time after time; as you say, so the intent is clear - hear it here again. s. |
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