On Nothing & Kindred Subjects: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

On Nothing & Kindred Subjects, credited to Hilaire Belloc, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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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

Recording facts

• Recording title: On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
• Author credits: Hilaire Belloc
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 32
• Listed recording duration: 6:03:31

Catalogue topics

• essay

Opening tracks: first 24 of 32

1. Section 01 — 15:17
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 — 8:03
8. Section 08 — 11:37
9. Section 09 — 6:47
10. Section 10 — 7:06
11. Section 11 — 16:36
12. Section 12 — 11:37
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 — 11:56
19. Section 19 — 12:24
20. Section 20 — 10:15
21. Section 21 — 14:25
22. Section 22 — 12:34
23. Section 23 — 11:02
24. Section 24 — 10:56

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