Project Gutenberg has tens of thousands of public domain eBooks available, and it assigns each one a number. This is my effort at climbing that literary slope, commenting on each one — maybe briefly, maybe at length, but definitely not comprehensively — and hopefully, give some historical and literary context too.

<p>A brief reflection on Gutenberg etext #3, <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/3">John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address</a>.</p>

                 <p>The full address is <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEC1C4p0k3E">available on YouTube</a></p>

A brief reflection on Gutenberg etext #3, John F. Kennedy’s Inaugural Address.

                 The full address is available on YouTube

Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy

<h1>Etext #2</h1>
          
          <p>This episode of <i>A Literary Slope</i> offers a brief history and commentary on Etext #2: the first ten 
	  amendments to the US Constitution, commonly known as the <a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2">Bill of 
	  Rights</a>.</p>

         <p>For the curious, the quote from the modern US Code in the episode is an extract from 
          <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/12/2802">12 U.S. Code § 2802</a>.</p> 

         <p><a href="https://www.wistly.net/literary-slope/episode2.html">Transcript</a></p>

Etext #2
          
          This episode of A Literary Slope offers a brief history and commentary on Etext #2: the first ten 
	  amendments to the US Constitution, commonly known as the Bill of 
	  Rights.

         For the curious, the quote from the modern US Code in the episode is an extract from 
          12 U.S. Code § 2802. 

         Transcript

The Bill of Rights

<h1>Etext #1</h1>
          <p><a href="https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1">The Declaration of Independence of the United States of 
	  America</a> was the first etext put into Project Gutenberg, and so stands in history as Etext #1.</p> 

          <p>A <a href="https://www.wistly.net/literary-slope/episode1.html">transcript of this episode</a> is available.</p>

          <p>For comments on this episode, email <a href="mailto:aliteraryslope@wistly.net">aliteraryslope@wistly.net</a></p>

Etext #1
          The Declaration of Independence of the United States of 
	  America was the first etext put into Project Gutenberg, and so stands in history as Etext #1. 

          A transcript of this episode is available.

          For comments on this episode, email aliteraryslope@wistly.net