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SECTION ONE OF MONGAN'S FRENZY AN IRISH FAIRY TALE BY JAMES STEPHENS PUBLISHED IN 1920 THIS IS A LIBRIVOX RECORDING ALL LIBRIVOX RECORDINGS ARE IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN FOR MORE INFORMATION OR TO VOLUNTEER PLEASE VISIT LIBRIVOX.ORG THIS RECORDING IS BY MICHELLE FRY BATON ROUGE LOUISIANA MONGAN'S FRENZY Chapters 1 through 6.

Chapter 1.

The abbots of the monastery of Mauville sent word to the storytellers of Ireland that when they were in his neighborhood they should call at the monastery, for he wished to collect and write down the stories which were in danger of being forgotten.

We shall have a notable year of courtship and joy.

And let us go now, she continued, for I am impatient to be with you.

alas said branduve as he followed her alas alas said the king of leinster end of section two section three of mungon's frenzy by james stevens this libervox recording is in the public domain read for you by michelle fry baton rouge louisiana chapters thirteen through seventeen chapter thirteen i think said the flame lady that whoever lost that woman had no reason to be sad mangan took her chin in his hand and kissed her lips all that you say is lovely for you are lovely said he and you are my delight and the joy of the world then the attendants brought him wine and he drank so joyously of that and so deeply that those who observed him thought he would surely burst and drown them but he laughed loudly and with enormous delight until the vessels of gold and silver and bronze chimed mellowly to his peal and the rafters of the house went creaking said he mungen loved duvlaka of the white hand better than he loved his life better than he loved his honour the kingdoms of the world did not weigh with him beside the string of her shoe he would not look at a sunset if he could see her he would not listen to a harp if he could hear her speak for she was the delight of ages the gem of time and the wonder of the world till doom she went to leinster with the king of that country and when she had gone mungon fell grievously sick so that it did not seem he could ever recover again and he began to waste and wither and he began to look like a skeleton and a bony structure and a misery now this also must be known duvlaqa had a young attendant who was her foster-sister as well as her servant and on the day that she got married to mungen her attendant was married to makindav who was servant and foster-brother to mungen when duvlaqa went away with the king of leinster her servant macindaf's wife went with her so there were two wifeless men in ulster at that time namely mangan the king and macindaf his servant one day as mangan sat in the sun brooding lamentably on his fate macindaf came to him how are things with you master asked macindow bad said mungin it was a poor day brought you off with mananin to the land of promise said his servant why should you think that inquired mungin because said macindow you learned nothing in the land of promise except how to eat a lot of food and how to do nothing in a deal of time

what business is it of yours said mungon angrily it

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It's interesting you said millions and millions because if you look at my dad's royalty, business the jazz part is a tiny part of that whole thing but the stuff he did for television is huge and has been around for a long long time so he's been dead since 1975 okay yet and still his business is still pretty active and people call me about using the music and that kind of thing which is really pretty cool

it's really amazing and i feel like your dad's legacy is an echo of a lot of what these standards are.

So this podcast, partly for economic reasons, is about jazz standards, great American songbook standards in the public domain, and about the fact that so many of these early compositions remain relevant today.

And you hear stuff that Quincy Jones did, arrangements he did for Sinatra.

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An Earthman on Venus by Ralph Man Farley.

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