Pipefuls
Christopher Morley
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A delightful collection of 48 essays on various topics of the human condition that caught his fancy. Witty, insightful and funny of course and on occasion thought provoking and even disturbing. From the preface "These sketches gave me pain to write; they will give the judicious patron pain to read; therefore we are quits. I think, as I look over their slattern paragraphs, of that most tragic hour—it falls about 4 p. m. in the office of an evening newspaper—when the unhappy compiler tries to round up the broodings of the day and still get home in time for supper. And yet perhaps the will-to-live is in them, for are they not a naked exhibit of the antics a man will commit in order to earn a living? In extenuation it may be pleaded that none of them are so long that they may not be mitigated by an accompanying pipe of tobacco." (Summary by phil chenevert) (6 hr 24 min)
Chapters
01 - On Making Friends | 11:07 | Read by klbonds |
02 - Thoughts on Cider | 13:29 | Read by klbonds |
03 - One-Night Stands | 11:37 | Read by klbonds |
04 - The Owl Train | 5:32 | Read by Highlandoaks |
05 - Safety Pins | 6:28 | Read by Chessie Joy |
06 - Confessions of a “Colyumist” | 11:30 | Read by Daryl Wor |
07 - Moving | 9:17 | Read by Mike Pelton |
08 - Surf Fishing | 5:09 | Read by asterix |
09 - “Idolatry” | 13:11 | Read by asterix |
10 - The First Commencement Address | 4:24 | Read by asterix |
11 - The Downfall of George Snipe | 4:24 | Read by asterix |
12 - Meditations of a Bookseller | 6:14 | Read by Daryl Wor |
13 - If Buying a Meal Were Like Buying a House | 4:03 | Read by Pamela Krantz |
14 - Adventures in High Finance | 4:23 | Read by Mike Pelton |
15 - On Visiting Bookshops | 7:45 | Read by Pamela Krantz |
16 - A Discovery | 12:23 | Read by Mike Pelton |
17 - Silas Orrin Howes | 8:26 | Read by Mike Pelton |
18 - Joyce Kilmer | 20:34 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
19 - An Early Train | 9:12 | Read by Daryl Wor |
20 - Ridge Avenue | 9:16 | Read by Deon Gines |
21 - The University and the Urchin | 9:03 | Read by Deon Gines |
22 - Pine Street | 7:10 | Read by Deon Gines |
23 - Pershing in Philadelphia | 10:10 | Read by Greg Giordano |
24 - Fall Fever | 6:23 | Read by Greg Giordano |
25 - Two Days Before Christmas | 8:42 | Read by Greg Giordano |
26 - In West Philadelphia | 8:53 | Read by Greg Giordano |
27 - Horace Traubel | 3:58 | Read by MACase |
28 - The Anatomy of Manhattan | 8:36 | Read by Tom Merritt |
29 - Vesey Street | 11:30 | Read by Tom Merritt |
30 - Brooklyn Bridge | 8:10 | Read by Daryl Wor |
31 - Three Hours for Lunch | 9:00 | Read by Daryl Wor |
32 - Passage from Some Memoirs | 10:45 | Read by NatalieOram |
33 - First Lessons in Clowning | 14:30 | Read by Tom Merritt |
34 - House Hunting | 5:26 | Read by MACase |
35 - Long Island Revisited | 10:51 | Read by klbonds |
36 - On Being in a Hurry | 7:57 | Read by Daryl Wor |
37 - Confessions of a Human Globule | 2:17 | Read by Daryl Wor |
38 - Notes on a Fifth Avenue Bus | 2:38 | Read by Highlandoaks |
39 - Sunday Morning | 8:37 | Read by Richard Kilmer (1942 - 2022) |
40 - Venison Pasty | 6:36 | Read by klbonds |
41 - Grand Avenue, Brooklyn | 6:09 | Read by klbonds |
42 - On Waiting for the Curtain to Go Up | 4:01 | Read by Chessie Joy |
43 - Musings of John Mistletoe | 2:27 | Read by Highlandoaks |
44 - The World's Most Famous Oration | 2:17 | Read by MACase |
45 - On Laziness | 7:33 | Read by Tom Merritt |
46 - Teaching the Prince to Take Notes | 5:10 | Read by Tom Merritt |
47 - A City Notebook | 9:00 | Read by Tom Merritt |
48 - On Going to Bed | 8:06 | Read by Tom Merritt |