Chapter 1 of Mindsnake is here in full — 614 sentences across 123 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Chapter I
Chapter 1 of Mindsnake is here in full — 614 sentences across 123 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
_Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog. All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ... "Witch! Witch!" The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
Chapter 1 of Mindsnake is here in full — 614 sentences across 123 reading sections, with audio for every sentence and word.
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Oxford-style entry order: headword, part of speech, US IPA, concise definition, contextual example, and audio.
take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
From this reading “The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.”
a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
From this reading “_Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.”
past form of “matter” — have weight; have import, carry weight
From this reading “All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...”
moving as on a slippery surface
From this reading “All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...”
a line or route along which something travels or moves
From this reading “The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.”
plural of “walker” — New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
From this reading “The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.”
past form of “wish” — hope for; have a wish
From this reading “_Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.”
a female sorcerer or magician
From this reading “"Witch!”
English keeps certain words together, and knowing the pair is worth more than knowing each word alone. Every partnership below was counted across our whole published library, and earns its place by appearing far more often than two unrelated words of the same frequency would.
Shown as this reading writes them, with the form the library counts, what kind of pairing it is, and how often it occurs.
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(quantifier) used with either mass or count nouns to indicate the whole number or amount of or every one of a class
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
surrounded by; in the middle of a group
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
used to join words or parts of a sentence that go together
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
any thing at all
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
take the trouble to do something; concern oneself
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
used to introduce something that contrasts with what came before
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
utter a sudden loud cry
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
Dictionary entry pending editorial verification. Tap Listen to hear the word.
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
a member of the genus Canis (probably descended from the common wolf) that has been domesticated by man since prehistoric times; occurs in many breeds
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
being or moving lower in position or less in some value
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
the male already mentioned, as the object of a verb or preposition
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
belonging to a man, boy, or male animal already mentioned
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
a thing, animal, or idea already mentioned
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
used to make a suggestion or a command including the speaker
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
past form of “matter” — have weight; have import, carry weight
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
belonging to, or connected with, somebody or something
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
moving as on a slippery surface
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
used to introduce what somebody said, thought, or felt
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
used before a noun that is already known, already mentioned, or the only one of its kind
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
the people or things already mentioned, as the object
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
the people, animals, or things already mentioned, as the subject
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
judge or regard; look upon; judge
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
the content of cognition; the main thing you are thinking about
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
used before the base form of a verb to make the infinitive
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
a line or route along which something travels or moves
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
plural of “walker” — New Zealand runner who in 1975 became the first person to run a mile in less that 3 minutes and 50 seconds (born in 1952)
From this reading The cry was among the walkers, but he didn't bother to track it down.
the past form of “be” used with I, he, she, it, or a singular noun
From this reading All that mattered was the black thought slithering of the_ ...
past form of “wish” — hope for; have a wish
From this reading _Let them think anything they wished of him and his dog.
a female sorcerer or magician
From this reading "Witch!
Chapter 1 of Mindsnake by Jim Harmon holds 614 sentences, grouped into 123 reading sections of at most 5 sentences. The text is the source edition, unabridged, and the chapter records which sentences cover which part of the work so that nothing is dropped. Every word can be tapped for its pronunciation and dictionary entry.
Chapter 1 holds 614 sentences of Mindsnake, unabridged, divided into 123 reading sections.
This page carries chapter 1 of Mindsnake by Jim Harmon exactly as it stands in the source edition, without abridgement. It runs to 614 sentences, grouped into 123 sections of at most 5 sentences so that a reader can take the chapter in steady, finishable pieces. The chapter also stores a coverage record mapping every one of its sentences to a part of the work, which is how the edition demonstrates that no line was dropped.
Work through the 123 sections in order, replaying any sentence and tapping unfamiliar words for their entries.
Each of the 123 sections in this chapter is short enough to read once, hear once, and then re-read with the vocabulary in view. Tapping a word plays it alone and opens its dictionary entry with IPA, part of speech and meaning, so the reader is never forced to guess a pronunciation from spelling. Working section by section keeps a long chapter from becoming an undifferentiated wall of text, which is the usual reason a reader abandons a work of this period.
Yes — every sentence and every individual word in chapter 1 can be played aloud in United States English.
Audio covers the whole chapter: any sentence can be played, and any single word within it can be played on its own. The voice uses United States English. For a work of this period that matters, because spelling is an unreliable guide to pronunciation for vocabulary that has fallen out of daily use, and a learner who guesses wrong tends to keep the error. Hearing the word in its own sentence, and then alone, settles it.
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About 51 minutes of reading across 123 sections of 5 sentences each, at an unhurried pace.
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