Shipping Out by David Foster Wallace
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ส.ค. 2024
- David Foster Wallace reports on a luxury cruise experience.
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I will be honest and say it's not very good, as I'm still working on my narrating technique and editing, and my recording quality is not great.
There will definitely be variations in the quality of audio throughout, but I hope some of it can be enjoyed nonetheless.
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@Río Rodríguez I really enjoy that one! Maybe I could do some sections from it. Thanks!!!
@Kirill Riabtsev Thanks for listening. That looks like an interesting one and I would definitely like to do stories like these. It is on the long side so it may need to wait for a better time, or I could consider reading an excerpt or a shorter version of the story.
I just pictured DFW in a conga line
SAME
That image makes me so happy! 🥰
Quite the mental image :D
Yup...me too. Really cheers me up. Pleased I'm not alone😊
Your voice lends itself exceedingly well to narration of DFW's prose. You also seem to have an affinity for discerning the way he would have read it aloud (the way you place emphasis, narrate the lists, perform the intonations needed for enhanced comedic effect etc). All in all, your intuition for DFW informs me that you've read and appreciated his work at least as much as i have. Thank you for this.
Thank you 🙏 Thanks for listening!
I have tried to share this multiple times over the years and to very intelligent people. DFW doesn't lend himself to audio. He was forever a reader...and I respect the endeavor to seek him out in his preferred medium.😊
I just want to thank you for helping me through quite a few sleepless nights with your recordings of these timeless DFW works. Thanks a lot, wishing others wouldn't suffer from sleep problems as much.
Used to think I was just cynical for noticing things like this. But it’s real.
First of all, thank you for doing this. I love putting on DFW interviews for background noise. If you are taking requests, I'd like to hear "E Unibus Pluram: Television and US Fiction." I'm trying to get all my friends to read it.
Sure thing! That's an interesting one. I'm planning on working my way through a number of his other essays, so stay tuned!!!
Just uploaded ‘E Unibus Pluram’, thanks for the suggestion!
Good luck! I have as well. No takers. DFW was never meant fir audio. He's the penultimate proponent of reading in peace. I truly think we need to be brought to him in the medium he preferred most.
@@PallettownI'm as angry as Franzen for him abandoning us. I know life is incredibly difficult but man...hang in and not from. Heroin took away so many brilliant minds.
Thanks for this reading. Great material, good voice, well edited, no fumbles.
I did hear some mis-pronunciations. Not sure how DF Wallace would have felt about that - he was quite a stickler for language . . . The words I caught as being pronounced incorrectly are:
pince-nez, christen, epaulettes, cadre, respite, acoustic, serape, puerile, pedantry, bow, scheme, picayune, crepe
From this list you can surmise that I listened carefully to your entire recording, some parts twice, so accept that as a compliment for your efforts. Thanks again!
@@oldnewsclipster thanks for listening and the feedback!
I've assumed Pallettown is not American and perhaps that is why he pronounces things differently than what I'm used to hearing (I'm American).
@@Maggdusa yep, I’m Canadian
LIFESAVER!! I love listening to my assigned readings before going over them and reading/annotating them for myself. Thank you !!
Such a funny essay. Thanks for sharing-you do great reads of DFW
Thanks I appreciate it
Thank you very much for reading and sharing this and the other DFW works. Highly appreciated.
This is great, thank you for narrating this
No problem!
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. I have briefly joined a conga line. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
This is pretty good. You even sound sort of like him! Of course, I can tell you're Canadian. In the states, we tend to pronounce "been" more like "bin," and we say "skedule" and "skeem"
Good catch!
This is Excellent-- thank you!!!
My pleasure!
Point of pedantry: Pince-nez is pronounced "pants nay". Really :D
omg that bit about the middle-aged women screaming before they laugh makes me think of when my mother would have all my aunties over, and I would be upstairs in bed, wide awake, bemusedly listening to them scream-laughing. AAAH-Ha-ha-ha-haaa Jayziz Celia that's gas!
Footnote #20 might just be the funniest thing ever written.
Thank you!
This is great. Thank you.
My pleasure
Amazing read!
Thank you!
Excellent job. Thank you. I can't resist pointing out that "conch" is pronounced conk.
Thanks I appreciate it!
@@Pallettown you're welcome. Since I am still listening, I have another comment. The abbreviation etc. is short for et cetera. Therefore when you come across it, you say "et cetera" (not the letters ETC).
Blessings ♾️
Why don’t you just shut up and listen.
It's DFW quite painfully reading (even footnotes which he didn't compose) I his own voice. He's very uncomfortable. It's not the transformative content with which he is portrayed.
He is a purveyor of words, not of using them in conservation. It is what it is. He's a reader, not a speaker. People need to meet DFW on his own terms.
I will never, ever forget the rage behind Franzen's eulogy. He was mad as a hatter and his career has born the fruits. DFW took us all out.
Just getting into this man! Wow!
You will be happy and enjoy yourself, despite of yourself. Is what I want in a vacation.
Really good job with this. Is 'shipping out' an alternate title to 'a supposedly fun thing I'll never do again' ?
It looks like it was originally published as 'Shipping Out' in 1996, but in the collection of essays 'A supposedly fun thing I'll never do again' published in 1997, the essay and the collection share the same name.
Thank you!
Wow 10k views!!!
Yes, you sound just almost like DFW himself, but it would be nice to know when an endnote begins each time.
Thanks! I’ll keep that in mind for my next read.
The “bow” of a ship rhymes with “cow,” not “mow.”
Thanks!
I think you read well. This Essay sounds great.
Thank you so much!
You kinda sound like him
Great job reading this. Btw what's up with the music that fades in during footnote 20 around 1:04:00? It made me bust out laughing when it came in over what David wallace was describing 😂
Haha I guess I was just trying to add a bit of Tex-Mex flair 🤣. Thanks for listening!
"Nadir" is pronounced nad-ear. In the UK, "christening" is all short vowel sounds, I don't know about US/Canada.
Thank you!
Seems more like a short story than an essay was fun and now i dont need to take a cruise yay
Sorry, but what time is the midnight buffet?! Worked up quite an appetite with all this conga dancing. 😂
Soul is not a Smithy next please. Or anything from Oblivion really. Cheers 👍
Petras a boss
I am very sad, and SO MAD, that DFW took his own life. He had so much to offer the world. So much we missed out on because existing was just to painful. I know that if he would’ve sought help and just held on he would’ve made it and become content! Imagine seeing DFW on The Joe Rogan podcast!
Oh man that would be incredible
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Bukoski
This actually sounds like dfw himself
52:40
I wish this was louder
Haha all the loud youtubes have me overly pampered (I was listening to this in a very loud truck though). Interesting how easily we get dissatisfied. Thanks for doing this!
The footnotes ruin it
I run a Wallace quotes twitter page for fun and so many from this one have appeared. The shushing, the thighmaster, the silver lame in a glass elevator. @dfwquotes if you're interested