I've been listening to a CD of Tolkein reading his own stuff. I've always been fascinated with hearing artists read their own work, nut there's another aspect as well- voices from beyond.
When I studied latin in high school, we read Horace, Ovid, Ceasar and various other dead folk's stuff.
I know, they're all dead white guys (though those definitions were not extant they way...
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