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With The Eyes Shut

Edward Bellamy

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .I confess I had not the nerve to light the gas to investigate till I had indued my more essential garments. Of course I found no lady in the room, but only a clock. I had not particularly noticed it on going to bed, because it looked like any other clock, and so now it continued to behave until the hands pointed to three. Then, instead of leaving me to infer the time from the arbitrary symbolism of three strokes on a bell, the same voice which had before electrified me informed me, in tones which would have lent a charm to the driest of statistical details, what the hour was. I had never before been impressed with any particular interest attaching to the hour of three in the morning, but as I heard it announced in those low, rich, thrilling contralto tones, it appeared fairly to coruscate with previously latent suggestions of romance and poetry, which, if somewhat vague, were very pleasing. Turning out the gas that I might the more easily imagine the bewitching presence w. . . Read More

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5.00
- Jazzy - Feb 09, 2023

Audiobooks taking over the regular kind? Yes, and conceived in 1898.

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- Ed - Feb 06, 2023

There is essentially no plot or interesting characters in this little story. Rather it is just some ideas that a man in 1889 has about possible future technology based on the phonograph and, more interestingly, how humans might adapt to it. It feels eerie to read his description of the way people be

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- Ian - Feb 01, 2023

The story is carried along as a conversation, but it feels like self-discovery talk between the author and his fictitious characters. It feels like sound board for the author’s ideas, or visions from the future?

It's a bit shocking to hear the comparability of the "indispensable" VS "mobile device" i

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- Beatrice - Aug 10, 2021

Way before radio this is a story that reminds me of using Audible.

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- Sara - Jun 05, 2021

It is a short story of around 45 pages. This means that you can easily read this in one evening.

The story is a really fast read, but it is still very interesting at the same time. This book is old originally published in the late nineteenth century but, but it is still a timeless classic because it

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