Jeremy Boreing
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2,452 appearances
5 recordings
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first heard Oct 2024
last heard Dec 2024
Jeremy Boreing’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Paul's, I want to be in one of these thousand-year-old cathedrals.
Бавбеган то реаліз.
That even my view of those thousand-year-old cathedrals, I'm seeing it through the the flattening of, you know, when we look at history, we tend to flatten it.
And we'll say things like, Imagine starting a work that your great grandchild would have to finish.
Which is what people often say about the cathedrals.
And I think, well, first of all, you misunderstand time completely.
Because they didn't start a work that their great grandchildren would finish.
They started a work that their great great great great great great great great great great grandchildren would finish.
These these buildings were started as wood structures.
replaced by stone structures that then burned down because the roof was thatched, replaced by another stone structure that then fell over because they weren't very good at building stone structures.
And then they built a third stone structure and that one stayed.
Uh and then they expanded it.
And then they tore the roof down.
And by the twelve hundreds they could build the the uh
What do you call the arches?
The the flying buttresses.
Yeah.
The flying buttresses, yes.
And then and then they spires and then stained glass and this goes on and on and on and on until the Victorian era.
And then they were just all done.
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