Daniel's (Audio) Den

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Note: At the beginning of the recording, I say that I read out a couple of Shakespeare’s sonnets “last week.” As you might realise, last week I did not do this. That reading was published a few weeks ago. So don’t be confused: it’s just a bit of rescheduling that has gone on, is all. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

The original post, with both essays and links to them as originally published in OnlySky and Areo Magazine , can be found here . Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

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Original piece here . Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

As I explain in the recording, this reading was inspired by a piece I wrote about the capitulation of Cineworld to censorious Muslim mobs, in which I quote from the passage here read. See here for the piece. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

Image credit: Cassowary Colorizations , used under the Creative CommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic license. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

Image credit: Cassowary Colorizations , used under the Creative CommonsAttribution 2.0 Generic license. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

See also my piece detailing some of my Spanish/Orwellian experiences (audio version of that piece here ). Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

See the written version of this piece, here , for photos. Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

See here for my 2017 piece on ‘Invictus’ in The National Student . Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

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First of all, apologies for my noisy tummy! I didn’t realise how loud it was until I listened back to the recording. Unfortunately, I don’t have time to re-record, so consider it part of my Substack’s shabby chic. I hope it doesn’t detract from the reading too much. As I say in the recording, I’ll be away from now until March 21 on account of being in Spain, so you’ll be pleased to hear that my vo...

Incidentally, I just realised as I was scheduling this post that it will be published on February, 21st—my birthday. How appropriate… Get full access to Daniel's Den at danieljamessharp.substack.com/subscribe

As mentioned at the beginning of the reading, the new Substack regime has undergone a slight mutation. Listen or see the About page for the details. As for that essay by David P. Barash on “evolutionary existentialism”, the original (and, I think, richer) version can be found in the 2007 Festschrift Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think . But there is a more accessible version...

Here it is, my first reading aloud of one of my own Substack pieces: ‘ Of Burns and Dawkins: Some Interesting Connections. ’ Again, apologies for my amateurishness: I am not a voice artist, nor do I have any professional sound recording/editing facilities. For all that, I think it came off tolerably well. I was going to record a little extra at the end, but I forgot to do so. I wanted to re-share...

Here it is, the beginning of my new Substack regime and my first Monday Reading. Enjoy! P.S. Reading from Unweaving the Rainbow reminded me of the words of another great writer on the beauty and poetry of science: Douglas Adams. I can’t resist sharing his impromptu response when asked by Dawkins, one of his close friends, in Dawkins’ 1996 documentary film Break the Science Barrier what it was abou...

I said earlier that I was marking the tenth anniversary of Christopher Hitchens’s death quadruply. But then I had a whim to do some readings, so here they are, thus extending my celebration into the quintuple. Be warned: this was all done in one take, with very brief breaks, so it is hardly a pristine piece of audio. I’ll take the opportunity to mention a couple of things. First, I have, obviously...