House Forlorn Reads 6 - HFR Transcript

Seville, Ancient Egypt and the life of Auguste Rodin. tourist picture guide All Sevilla, John Ruffe's "The Egyptians", and David Weiss' "Naked Came I".

House Forlorn Reads" is an episodic podcast brought to you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.
Date of Production: 20081102
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House Forlorn Reads episode 6

You've stumbled upon House Forlorn Reads, Episode 6. If you intended on finding a podcast about the continual adversarial relationship between Cleveland sports franchises and those in PIttsburgh, specifically of the pigskin ilk, you're hanging around the wrong Hall of Fame altogether - podcasts on that subject are probably being recorded in Canton, Ohio.

"House Forlorn Reads" is recorded for you by a house whose owners have moved out but haven't yet sold it to new owners. The house is sad and eager to have new humans living in it. This podcast, along with the House Forlorn blog and selected House Forlorn Chogger comics, can be found at HouseForlorn.com.

The music you hear is Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D Minor BWV565, produced by James Clarke, of the UK. This and other podcast-friendly music can be found on the "podsafe music network" at music.podshow.com.

I have a thirst for books, which stems from a lack of human (or canine/feline) companionship -- nobody flicking on lights, stomping up and down my stairs, cooking bacon, showering for hours on end or barking/meowing at strange noises outside.

Where does your thirst for books come from? Send a message to Houseforlorn@gmail.com, and I'll convey your thirst to others via this podcast. Let me know if you're a human or a house, where you're from, and what kind of house, home, apartment or tiny little abode you inhabit or are. Also, tell me what books drive your thirst. I'll leave names out of it, unless your name happens to be something like "colonial", "saltbox", "felt tent", "geodesic dome", "limestone cavern", "apartment" or "flat".

Do you have any stories about your books? For example, my owner recently came across 5 boxes of free books at an estate auction in Circleville, Pennsylvania - people are giving away the nicest books at the lowest prices, all because they don't wanna carry those boxes any further. What strange places have your books come from?

In today's show, we'll read three scupltural excerpts for you - touching on Seville, Ancient Egypt and the life of Auguste Rodin.

"All Sevilla" is the English Edition of a travel guide, with "127 Colour Photographs"; the guide was compiled by the Technical Department of Editorial Escudo De Oro, S.A., in a 6th Edition dated May 1984. This tourist guide to this ancient city in southern Spain covers mostly the religious architecture, but also touchs on bull-fighting, food, paintings of note and secular architecture.

John Ruffles' "The Egyptians" is a an in-depth overview of a culture that flourished for about thirty-one hundred years before running headlong into the Roman civilization that was spreading around the Mediterranean in 31 B.C. Egypt is known for popularizing many ideas and technologies we use today: weaving, calendars, beer and irrigation control for growing crops.

"Naked Came I", by David Weiss, 1963 is not the memoirs of a certain penguin named Opus in the Bloom Country comic strip, but rather a historical novel about the live of sculptor Auguste Rodin. The frontispiece in this book is a quote from Don Quixote, by Cervantes: "Naked came I into this world, and naked must I go out." Wikipedia reminds us that this was also said by Job in the Old Testament, when he said "Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return" (Book of Job, 1:21) Rodin was a 19th century french sculptor who's life was controversial in many ways, but very influential artistically.

First, from All Sevilla, pages 72 & 73, the university:

Next, I read pages 170 & 171 from The Egyptians:

Finally, in Naked Came I, we see Rodin's father nearing death on pages 348 & 349:

Thanks for listening to House Forlorn Reads. Check out the HF blog, photo-blog and comic-strip postings via www.houseforlorn.com. You can also follow houseforlorn on Twitter at twitter.com/houseforlorn. For a transcript of this and previous "House Forlorn Reads" podcasts, google the key phrase "HFR Transcript".

Twitterer pfmDesigner, in Zanesville, Ohio, tweets "Larry Niven's Fleet of Worlds was the first book I read on my Kindle" -- what have you read recently?

My owner recently attended and present at Podcamp Pittsburgh 3 (PCPGH3). See what podcamps may be in your neighborhood at Podcamp.pbwiki.com; use keyword PCPGH3 in your google searches for related articles, blogs, videos and podcasts.

Have a leafy day.

..HF.