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Pleasures of Ignorance

Name: Pleasures of Ignorance
Author: Robert Lynd

Robert Lynd

Read by Larry Wilson, Eva Davis (d. 2025), Steven M. Lafitte, Julia Mikheeva, Wayne Anderson, Tom Penn, Kathleen Moore, brianna, Z. Z. Turner, Nemo, jimsvox4, Annyiee Hill, zgorelick and Monica Washington · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

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The Pleasures of Ignorance (10:33)
The Herring Fleet (14:43)
The Betting Man (13:04)
The Hum of Insects (12:05)
Cats (12:58)
May (12:00)
New Year Prophecies (15:23)
On Knowing the Difference (13:20)
The Intellectual Side of Horse-Racing (14:35)
Why We Hate Insects (14:17)
Virtue (11:36)
June (11:21)
On Feeling Gay (15:14)
In the Train (14:02)
The Most Curious Animal (13:25)
The Old Indifference (12:40)
Eggs: An Easter Homily (12:33)
Enter The Spring (13:55)
The Daredevil Barber (11:17)
Weeds: An Appreciation (14:40)
A Juror in Waiting (12:14)
The Three-halfpenny Bit (12:14)
The Morals of Beans (11:10)
On Seeing a Joke (12:48)
Going to The Derby (12:59)
This Blasted World (10:33)