Introduction
Candide Pt 4: CerebralMix 2014-09-05
It’s time for the fourth installment in the Candide series of the CerebralMix. We made notice this week that religious figures tend to not fare all that well in this story. I’ve also notice that the portrayal of Candide is that of someone who is always trying to do good, but seems to have a bit of a hair-trigger. In this section ha manages to kill a priest and two monkeys (admittedly, he is a good shot since he took out both monkeys in one shot).
There is also a bit of the stereotyping going on again, as an as-yet-to-be-name land is portrayed as allowing, or actually encouraging animal procreation with humans. It is pointed out that this practice is likely the origin of many creatures in Greek and Roman mythologies.
The whole thing is an interesting test for the core tenet of “all is for the best”. Of course, the level of brilliance Voltaire has shown in taking the story into some of the wildest directions imaginable is what makes reading a dis-proof of a philosophical concept so much fun.
Readings
In the past I’ve reproduced the text of the poems or short pieces that I read during the show. However, with the text of Candide being much longer, I think it is better to grab a copy of the book to read along with the show if you so wish.
The reading by Ted Delorme is based on the Modern Library version from 1918. A copy of this version of the book can obtained from the Internet Archive: Modern Library – Voltaire’s Candide. This book is available in all the all of the major eBook formats: ePub, PDF, Kindle, HTML, Daisy and DjVu.
In the playlist below is a link to the LibriVox version of the audio book. The version presented in the show has been modified a bit (removed the opening and closing LibriVox credits on each chapter to make it flow better with the show, normalized the audio level, and created a stereo version from the original mono source files for streaming).
Listen Hear
Duration: 01:59:00 Published by SndChaser under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.Playlist
00:00:00 SndChaser CerebralMix: Candide 4 CC BY-NC-SA
00:00:32 Ted Delorme Candide: Chapter 13 Pub Domain
00:05:43 The1983 Return To Sender CC BY-NC-SA
00:09:55 Joe Frawley Beneath The Trees CC BY-NC-ND
00:13:56 Kris Roche Heaven Bound CC BY-NC-SA
00:18:38 Lyndsie Alguire No time lost CC BY-NC-ND
00:22:59 Cousin Silas and Michael Brueckner 2 Trees CC BY-NC-ND
00:29:35 SndChaser CerebralMix: Candide ID Break CC BY-NC-SA
00:29:46 Ted Delorme Candide: Chapter 14 Pub Domain
00:37:22 Weldroid Don’t open the box CC BY-NC-ND
00:43:12 Mooval At night the salmon move CC BY-NC-SA
00:47:48 Bruce H McCosar The Last Word is Hope CC BY-SA
00:52:04 Anitek Sinister Souls CC BY-NC-SA
00:55:14 Easily Embarrassed Moon People CC BY-NC-SA
01:02:18 SndChaser CerebralMix: Candide ID Break CC BY-NC-SA
01:02:30 Ted Delorme Candide: Chapter 15 Pub Domain
01:07:11 Faire du Surf In the Woods CC BY-SA
01:11:02 Cloudkicker Ever Thus to Deadbeats CC BY
01:19:26 Horrible Present Fired By The Sun’s Pure Light CC BY-NC-SA
01:23:34 Lara St John The Four Seasons- Concerto in G Minor Op 8:2 RV 315 CC BY-NC-SA
01:26:09 Small Colin Old Sounds CC BY-SA
01:30:57 SndChaser CerebralMix: Candide ID Break CC BY-NC-SA
01:31:08 Ted Delorme Candide: Chapter 16 Pub Domain
01:39:03 Al K Sunny Bazzar Day Somewhere in the SouthEast CC BY-ND
01:44:05 Advent Chamber Orchestra Handel – How Beautiful Are the Feet CC BY-NC-SA
01:46:38 Garmisch City Sound CC BY
01:52:07 Daniel Barbiero The Open Window CC BY-NC
01:57:07 SndChaser CerebralMix Outro CC BY-NC-SA