W. Somerset Maugham
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first heard Sep 2026
last heard 8 Sep
W. Somerset Maugham’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Jim, get my revolver and chase that pigtail off.
Jump his damn sepulchre and tax his camp five dollars for each prospecting on the public domain.
These munglins hordes his got to be got under, and I say, Jim,
If any more serpents come foolin' round here, drive em off.
Taint right to be bitin' a feller when whiskey's two dollars gallon, durn off foreigners anyhow.
and the mortal part pulled on its boots.
End of chapter thirty four
Chapter thirty five of the Fiend's Delight By Ambrose Beerce.
This Liebervox recording is in the public domain.
Recording by April six zero nine zero
Tal talk.
A call to dinner.
When the starving peasantry of France were bearing the inimitable fortitude, their great bereavement in the death of Louis Le Grand, how cheerfully must they have bowed their necks to the easy yoke of Philip of Orleans.
who set them an example in eating, which he had not the slightest objection to their following.
A monarch skilled in the mysteries of the cuisine must wield the scepter all the more gently from his schooling in handling the ladle.
In royalty the delicate manipulation of an omelet souffle is at once an evidence of genius and an assurance of a tender forbearance in state policy.
All good rulers have been good livers.
And if all bad ones have been the same, this merely proves that even the worst of men have still something divine in them.
There is more in a good dinner than is disclosed by the removal of the covers.
Where the eye of hunger perceives but a juicy roast, the eye of faith detects a smoking god.
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