Pleasures of Ignorance
Robert Lynd
26 chapters · 5 h 36 min · English
Read by Larry Wilson, Eva Davis (d. 2025), Steven M. Lafitte, Julia Mikheeva, Wayne Anderson, Tom Penn and others
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From the pen of the Irish poet and essayist, Robert Lynd, comes a collection of humorous and satirical essays on topics as wide ranging as cats and weed to why we hate insects and morals of beans. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Chapters
1 The Pleasures of Ignorance 11 min 2 The Herring Fleet 15 min 3 The Betting Man 13 min 4 The Hum of Insects 12 min 5 Cats 13 min 6 May 12 min 7 New Year Prophecies 15 min 8 On Knowing the Difference 13 min 9 The Intellectual Side of Horse-Racing 15 min 10 Why We Hate Insects 14 min 11 Virtue 12 min 12 June 11 min 13 On Feeling Gay 15 min 14 In the Train 14 min 15 The Most Curious Animal 13 min 16 The Old Indifference 13 min 17 Eggs: An Easter Homily 13 min 18 Enter The Spring 14 min 19 The Daredevil Barber 11 min 20 Weeds: An Appreciation 15 min 21 A Juror in Waiting 12 min 22 The Three-halfpenny Bit 12 min 23 The Morals of Beans 11 min 24 On Seeing a Joke 13 min 25 Going to The Derby 13 min 26 This Blasted World 11 min
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