Question

What would be a benefit of reading this text rather than listening to an audio version of it?

Answer 1

Answer:

In the lesson's reading, the narrator explains the reasons for writing the report on the Barnhouse Effect. The narrator, Professor Barnhouse's former student, relates his encounters with the professor and how he witnessed dynamopsychism. He also relates how the government tried to use Professor Barnhouse as a weapon against other nations and how the professor chose instead to use his gift for peace. The story ends with the narrator realizing that Professor Barnhouse had passed on his gift to him.

In the audio version, the narrator introduces the story by analyzing how the human mind works, and he speaks about breakthroughs in hypnosis and telepathy. The music and background sounds help enhance the sci-fi theme and the suspenseful details of the story. In the audio version, the narrator is a man named George Clinton. Clinton writes a report about his time with Professor Arthur Barnhouse and describes what the professor called dynamopsychism, or the conversion of thoughts into reality. The audio version also differs toward the end. Clinton is called upon to help track the professor, but he fails to save the professor from foreign agents who want to harness the professor’s power. This intervention by the narrator does not occur in the book. In the audio version, the professor kills himself so that no one can use him to cause harm to other countries after his capture. In the reading, the professor's location is yet to be discovered. He is prepared to live in hiding and die a naturally of old age.

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Answer 2

The reader is able to re-read parts of a physical book to gain a better understanding of the context within the book. Another benefit would be the reader's choice to speed up or slow down his or her pace of reading.