{"date":"October 4","id":"10-04","intro":["The man who put pebbles in his mouth and orated to the sea, shaved one-half of his head so that he would be obliged to stay at home until he had perfected his oratory—a strange method of attaining eminence, but a successful one."],"minutes":20,"readings":[{"author":"Plutarch","end":205,"start":196,"volume":12,"work":"Demosthenes"}],"slug":"october-4","status":"proofread","title":"His Mouth Full of Pebbles","url":"/harvard-classics/october-4/","words":3996}