The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
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Welcome to the The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy podcast. I’m glad you’re here. The Personal History is one large work of fiction composed of many interconnected parts. Its parts are the memoirs and collected works of a fictional character, Peter Leroy, an earnest screwball who tells an alternative version of his life story.

“A masterpiece of American humor.” The Los Angeles Times

Perhaps among the many there may be some who for a moment will turn aside from tales of haughty Heroes, ruffling it in Court and Camp, to listen to the story of a very ordinary lad who lived with very ordinary folk . . . , and who grew up to be a very ordinary sort of man, loving a little and grieving a little, helping a few and harming a few, struggling and failing and hoping; and if any such there be, let them come round me.

Jerome K. Jerome, Paul Kelver, “Prologue”

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🎧 1: Little Follies Begins
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Little Follies
  1: Little Follies Begins
Little Follies: “My Mother Takes a Tumble”
  2: Within a Family . . .
  3: Some readers . . .
  4: Mr. Beaker lived alone . . .
  5: On the morning that . . .
  6: I can’t begin to tell you . . .
  7: Please do not be offended . . .
  8: You mustn’t think . . .
  9: I must tell you . . .
10: I hardly know what to say . . .
11: I was lying in my crib . . .
12: Now don’t try to sell . . .
13: Now don’t feel uncomfortable . . .
14: Mr. Beaker began fiddling . . .
15: “If I were you, Beaker, . . .”
16: Mr. Beaker insisted . . .
17: “I left work early . . .”
18: What a beauty . . .”
19: Eliza ran into . . .”
20: Free eBooks
Little Follies: “Do clams Bite?”
21: “Do Clams Bite?” began as . . .
22: For another example . . .
23: From time to time . . .
24: The door at the top of the stairs . . .
25: “Sit over there, . . .”
26: Later, as a young man . . .
27: When the call came . . .
28: When my father was a boy . . .
29: A stone landed in the water . . .
30: I have sometimes had the feeling . . .
31: Grandfather raised the sails . . .
32: One more short digression . . .
33: On my first camping trip . . .
34: When we returned home . . .
35: “Let me tell you . . .”
36: I did go to bed, upstairs . . .
37: She was right . . .
38: When May had gone . . .
39: I am thirty-seven . . .
Little Follies: “Life on the Bolotomy”

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🎧 40: The pleasures . . .
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🎧 41: If life is like a river . . .
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🎧 42: On the right bank . . .
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🎧 43: Despite my apprehensions . . .
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🎧 44: In Babbington you will find . . .
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🎧 45: Adventurer’s Bubble . . .
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🎧 46: In Babbington you will find no . . .
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🎧 47: As you approach Babbington . . .
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🎧 48: “Ye gods, I can see . . .”
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🎧 49: The boats employed . . .
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🎧 50: The Bolotomy, like most rivers . . .
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🎧 51: If you are planning . . .
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🎧 52: If you are determined . . .
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🎧 53: The Clam Fest, of course, . . .
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🎧 54: The only decent fishing . . .
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🎧 55: “Since we are here . . .”
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🎧 56: Rarely does one eat . . .
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🎧 57: Raskol said nothing.
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🎧 58: Just north of Hargrove Road . . .
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🎧 59: The sun rose higher . . .
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🎧 60: The upper reaches of the river . . .
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🎧 61: Now on Apple Books
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🎧 62: We are all obliged, . . .
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🎧 63: I telephoned Eliza . . .
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🎧 64: At home, in my parents’ house . . .
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🎧 65: As soon as I had listened . . .
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🎧 66: It was not unusual . . .
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🎧 67: Flushed and giggly . . .
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🎧 68: A Placeholder
Listen now (30 min) | This episode is a placeholder. I didn’t post any text episodes of the Personal History from Monday, August 16, through Friday, August 20, while I was preparing the podcast launch. The text episodes that I posted on those days were placeholders, counting down the days until the podcast launch on Monday, August 23. To keep the numbering of podcast ep…
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The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
🎧 69: A Placeholder
Listen now (30 min) | This episode is a placeholder. I didn’t post any text episodes of the Personal History from Monday, August 16, through Friday, August 20, while I was preparing the podcast launch. The text episodes that I posted on those days were placeholders, counting down the days until the podcast launch on Monday, August 23. To keep the numbering of podcast ep…
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The Personal History, Adventures, Experiences & Observations of Peter Leroy
🎧 70: A Placeholder
Listen now (30 min) | This episode is a placeholder. I didn’t post any text episodes of the Personal History from Monday, August 16, through Friday, August 20, while I was preparing the podcast launch. The text episodes that I posted on those days were placeholders, counting down the days until the podcast launch on Monday, August 23. To keep the numbering of podcast ep…
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