Waking Life: monólogos para practicar shadowing
16 monólogos de Waking Life. Audio original, frase por frase, con una pausa para repetirla.
- 1Completo: escúchalo una vez
- 2Shadowing: repite cada frase
- 3A ciegas: escucha y luego mira el texto
- B213 frases
You want to keep things on an even keel I guess is what I'm saying.
The boat-car philosophyWaking Life · 2001It starts as advice about balance and swells into a rambling sea sermon that leaves the passenger adrift. - C17 frases
Existentialism is often discussed as if it's a philosophy of despair.
A Defense of ExistentialismWaking Life · 2001It names the common charge, flips it, and lands on a line simple enough to carry out of the room. - C112 frases
And when Sartre talks about responsibility, he's not talking about something abstract.
Responsibility Made ConcreteWaking Life · 2001It narrows a grand philosophical term into a room, a conversation, and a choice. - C18 frases
As intelligence piles on intelligence, as ability piles on ability, the speed changes.
The acceleration prophecyWaking Life · 2001The repeated as-clauses speed up the voice, then a short question and a cold verdict give the lecture a dramatic turn. - C19 frases
Just about reincarnation and where all the new souls come from over time.
Reincarnation arithmeticWaking Life · 2001It turns a mystical claim into arithmetic, and the joke lands because the numbers sound calmly reasonable. - C19 frases
So now you might be tempted to just ignore the question, ignore the mystery of free will.
The Question Stares BackWaking Life · 2001It voices the temptation to dismiss the issue, then turns the dismissal into a stare. - C16 frases
Looks like it's a free action on your part, but every one of those-- every part of that process...
Particles Versus DignityWaking Life · 2001It moves from the Big Bang to a threat to human dignity without raising its voice, letting the scale do the work. - C135 frases
You can't fight city hall, death and taxes.
Street ManifestoWaking Life · 2001It starts with everyday excuses and builds into a call to action, using repetition, metaphor and direct address. - B235 frases
It was in the middle of the desert, in the middle of nowhere,
The Gas Station ShootingWaking Life · 2001Plain, rapid sentences and comic-book bangs turn a lurid shoot-out into a bar-room tall tale. - B28 frases
But the trick is, you got to realize that you're dreaming in the first place.
The lucid-dream trickWaking Life · 2001It turns practical advice into a neat chiasmus: sleepwalking through waking life, wake-walking through dreams. - C19 frases
That's what film has. It's just that moment, which is holy.
The Holy Moment SpeechWaking Life · 2001It turns a theory of film into a direct challenge: if every moment is holy, why don’t we live that way? - C113 frases
I know we haven't met, but I don't want to be an ant. You know?
The Ant MonologueWaking Life · 2001It builds from ants to straws, then lands on a simple plea to be seen. - C129 frases
It's mostly just me dealing with a lot of people...
A lucid-dream explanationWaking Life · 2001It builds from vague familiarity to a full theory of awareness, giving the listener a way to name the dream. - C135 frases
On this bridge," Lorca warns, "life is not a dream.
Bridge MonologueWaking Life · 2001It shifts from a warning into comic, cosmic metaphors while keeping a spoken, improvisational rhythm. - B27 frases
But I'm still in it now.
The false-awakening loopWaking Life · 2001Short sentences pile up from being stuck to suspecting he is dead, and the panic rises with each line. - B26 frases
But anyway, about four years after it was published, he was at this party and he met this woman...
The Philip K. Dick storyWaking Life · 2001Names and events line up one by one, and the flat listing makes the coincidence feel inevitable.