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This ebook is... + +00:02:36.640 --> 00:02:38.095 +You may copy it, give it away, + +00:02:38.096 --> 00:02:41.479 +or reuse it if you are not. + +00:02:41.480 --> 00:02:43.580 +Let's move to the start of the story. + +00:02:57.040 --> 00:02:58.088 +"After leaving Vienna, + +00:02:58.089 --> 00:02:59.839 +and long before you come to Budapest, + +00:02:59.840 --> 00:03:00.919 +the Danube enters a region + +00:03:00.920 --> 00:03:02.919 +of singular loneliness and desolation, + +00:03:02.920 --> 00:03:04.879 +where its waters spread away on all sides, + +00:03:04.880 --> 00:03:06.199 +regardless of a main channel, + +00:03:06.200 --> 00:03:08.799 +and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, + +00:03:08.800 --> 00:03:11.759 +covered by a vast sea of low willow bushes." + +NOTE Reading rate + +00:03:12.380 --> 00:03:15.839 +Reading rate: this reading rate is rather slow. + +00:03:15.840 --> 00:03:19.519 +Let's pick up the pace using the plus key. + +00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:23.519 +This will run the greader-inc-rate command. + +00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:26.780 +You must do that while greader is reading. + +00:03:37.885 --> 00:03:39.779 +Now it is too fast. + +00:03:39.780 --> 00:03:44.679 +We can slow down using the - key. + +00:03:44.680 --> 00:03:52.485 +This will run the greader-dec-rate command. + +00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:59.384 +"In high flood this great acreage + +00:03:59.385 --> 00:04:01.239 +of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown islands + +00:04:01.240 --> 00:04:02.439 +is almost topped by the water, + +00:04:02.440 --> 00:04:03.609 +but in normal seasons the bushes + +00:04:03.610 --> 00:04:04.919 +bend and rustle in the free winds, + +00:04:04.920 --> 00:04:06.399 +showing their silver leaves to the sunshine + +00:04:06.400 --> 00:04:08.320 +in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty." |