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The Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter 6th August 2003
eBooks Readable By Both Humans and Computers For Since 1971
Part 2
In this week's Project Gutenberg Weekly Newsletter:
1) Editorial
2) News
Radio Gutenberg Update
3) Notes and Queries
4) Mailing list information
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1) Editorial
Hello,
Thanks to everyone who has so far sent in their thoughts on the
link-up with Amazon, if you still haven't put finger to keyboard on
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Farmer for informing me that you can buy chocolate worms in cans
(cruelty-free see!) through the internet, you can never have too much
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Distributed Proofreaders Update
Following on from last week's update, I thought I would let you know
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Thanks to some tremendous efforts (and lots of coffee!) DP achieved
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3) Notes and Queries
Story Poem Quiz
by Tonya Allen
Project Gutenberg has a sizeable, and growing, collection of
poetry, including a number of story poems. Below are fragments of some
of my favorites. How many excerpts can you match with their titles?
Sorry, there's no prize. Check out the etext for the answers!*
Titles
Paul Revere's Ride etext98/cphwl10.txt [Etext #1365]
The Lady of Shalott etext05/8eptn10.txt [EBook #8601]
The Ballad of Reading Gaol etext95/rgaol10.txt [Etext #301]
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner etext94/rime10.txt [Etext #151]
The Revenge of Hamish etext98/sposl10.txt [Etext #1229]
The Raven etext00/poe5v10.txt [Etext #2151]
Ulalume etext00/poe5v10.txt [Etext #2151]
Excerpts
1.
All in a hot and copper sky,
The bloody Sun, at noon,
Right up above the mast did stand,
No bigger than the Moon.
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2.
He did not wear his scarlet coat,
For blood and wine are red,
And blood and wine were on his hands
When they found him with the dead,
The poor dead woman whom he loved,
And murdered in her bed.
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3.
And I cried -- "It was surely October
On _this_ very night of last year,
That I journeyed -- I journeyed down here! --
That I brought a dread burden down here --
On this night, of all nights in the year,
Ah, what demon has tempted me here?
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4.
For at dawn of that day proud Maclean of Lochbuy to the hunt had waxed wild,
And he cursed at old Alan till Alan fared off with the hounds
For to drive him the deer to the lower glen-grounds:
"I will kill a red deer," quoth Maclean, "in the sight of the wife
and the child."
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5.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing,
Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before;
But the silence was unbroken, and the darkness gave no token,
And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, "Lenore!"
This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, "Lenore!" --
Merely this, and nothing more.
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6.
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
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7.
A hurry of hoofs in a village street,
A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark,
And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark
Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet:
That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night;
* Answers will be published next week, along with names of any
smarty-pants who care to drop me a line with their answers.
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Request for sponsorship
>From Ted Garvin
There are some books of historical/literary significance that I would
like to get through ILL (Inter Library Loans). Only one problem (aside
from finding time to scan them, but I seem to manage in that area),
and that is lack of funds.
So this is a plea for sponsorship. Email Ted at garvint at yahoo.com
- Ted
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Credits
Thanks this time go to Brett and George for the numbers and
booklists. Mark for the beer, no computers this week - too 'ot, Greg,
Michael, and Larry Wall. Entertainment for the workers provided by BBC 6music.
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