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Anyone find a recording? Most things I prefer in prose, but Fry's words suffer badly without his particular delivery.
by throwanem 2y ago
Anyone find a recording? Most things I prefer in prose, but Fry's words suffer badly without his particular delivery.
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- megak1d 2y agoI share this. I quickly grow irritated by Fry’s elaborate language when in written form.
- throwanem 2y agoLike any skillful rhetorician, he constructs with an eye toward the intended medium. When that's prose, it reads a lot more smoothly than here.
- bloak 2y agoThat's right: his books are very readable. (With a couple of his novels I felt that if he had made them a bit less entertaining and a bit more pretentious and if he weren't already famous as an actor and comedian then probably they would be taken seriously as "literary fiction". I'm thinking of "The hippopotamus" in particular.)
- tagami 2y agoI too would like a recording. Until then, soak in each line, seek the cadence of delivery and imagine, as he asks us to do in his lecture, "...before I go any further I’d like to paint some pictures. Think of them as tableaux vivants played onto a screen at the back of your mind."
- throwanem 2y agoI know how to model a speaker's delivery; I find I lack the skill to model his.
- oever 2y agoThere's a text2speech with a Stephen Fry option. I do not have it, but it must exist.
- throwanem 2y agoAs well suggest that, hungry for a meal, I visit the nearest toilet.
- dgeiser13 2y agoThe speech was given 4 days ago. Video may still be released.
- paullov 2y agoHere it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cw37g39g00 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Cw37g39g00
- throwanem 2y agoThank you! Everything I'd hoped.