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LibriVox recording of On Nothing & Kindred Subjects, by Hilaire Belloc. Read by Ray Clare, proofed and produced by Karen Merline.

“I knew a man once, Maurice, who was at Oxford for three years, and after that went down with no degree. At College, while his friends were seeking for Truth in funny brown German Philosophies, Sham Religions, stinking bottles and identical equations, he was lying on his back in Eynsham meadows thinking of Nothing, and got the Truth by this parallel road of his much more quickly than did they by theirs; for the asses are still seeking, mildly disputing, and, in a cultivated manner, following the gleam, so that they have become in their Donnish middleage a nuisance and a pest; while he--that other--with the Truth very fast and firm at the end of a leather thong is dragging her sliding, whining and crouching on her four feet, dragging her reluctant through the world, even into the broad daylight where Truth most hates to be.” - Hilaire Belloc

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Artist/Composer: Hilaire Belloc
Date: 2009-12-09
Source: Librivox recording of a public-domain text
Keywords: LibriVox; audiobook; essay

Creative Commons license: Public Domain

1   Section 01 15:16
2   Section 02 8:35
3   Section 03 11:26
4   Section 04 10:33
5   Section 05 9:30
6   Section 06 13:05
7   Section 07 8:02
8   Section 08 11:37
9   Section 09 6:47
10  Section 10 7:05
11  Section 11 16:36
12  Section 12 11:36
13  Section 13 13:43
14  Section 14 10:17
15  Section 15 13:08
16  Section 16 13:49
17  Section 17 9:43
18  Section 18 11:55
19  Section 19 12:24
20  Section 20 10:15
21  Section 21 14:24
22  Section 22 12:34
23  Section 23 11:02
24  Section 24 10:56
25  Section 25 14:04
26  Section 26 11:55
27  Section 27 10:02
28  Section 28 10:09
29  Section 29 12:26
30  Section 30 8:08
31  Section 31 10:49
32  Section 32 11:38