The Listening Room.

The chapters

Read by Ambrose Reed. Take a chapter and it unfolds as the galley proof — the type follows the needle.

• I I 2:53
• II II 3:28
• III III 2:09
• IV IV 3:54
• V V 3:39
• VI VI 1:05
• VII VII 3:51
• VIII VIII 3:34
• IX IX 2:16
• X X 6:17
• 11 XI 1:38
• 12 XII 0:49
• 13 XIII 4:17
• 14 XIV 3:33
• 15 XV 4:11
• 16 XVI 1:21
• 17 XVII 2:43
• 18 XVIII 0:33
• 19 XIX 0:55
• 20 XX 1:10
• 21 XXI 6:32
• 22 XXII 1:16
• 23 XXIII 0:34
• 24 XXIV 3:26
• 25 XXV 3:48
• 26 XXVI 7:10
• 27 XXVII 2:15

the dial on the console runs 16⅔ · 33⅓ · 45 · 78. slower is not simpler; it is just slower.

The bands

specimen recording — the narration is being read now. Take a band and the needle drops on it — the book turns to its leaf.

• I Part One, Chapter I 1:32
• II Part One, Chapter II 1:24

the dial on the console runs 16⅔ · 33⅓ · 45 · 78. slower is not simpler; it is just slower.

On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.

Constance Garnett, 1914

The bands

specimen recording — the narration is being read now. Take a band and the needle drops on it — the book turns to its leaf.

• I Book Two 1:28
• II Book Three 1:20

the dial on the console runs 16⅔ · 33⅓ · 45 · 78. slower is not simpler; it is just slower.

Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busybody, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial.

George Long, 1862