Nigel Carrington
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 7 Aug
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Through the Looking Glass · Aleriel or A Voyage to Other Worlds - Wladislaw Lach-Szyrma · 7 Aug 2026
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At the crowds and the shipping.
He leant over the parapet looking at the Thames.
This, then, is the greatest city upon earth.
Not merely the largest that is, but that has ever been, the
Not even Imperial Rome was ever as great as London is, it has nearly four millions of population.
That is truly great.
Four millions that is more than Sweden, or than Denmark, or than Greece.
Much more, I replied.
Do you think it is for the happiness of such a number of people to be living all together in one city?
Have they enough light and air?
Is it always smoky here like this?
We talked on thus as we walked through the city.
He showed keen interest in everything.
and often varied his questions by sage and thoughtful remarks.
His character throughout was very strange.
He seemed full of sympathy for human sorrow, and yet he was not dazzled by anything.
He seemed curious, and yet when he saw a thing was disappointed, and spoke in a tone of sadness and pity of everything, showing how it might have been better, and ought to have been better than it was.
It was in a sense disappointing to show our great metropolis to so severe, though at the same time so kindly a critic.
He evidently sincerely pitied us, pitied London, pitied England, pitied everything and everybody, and yet strange to say, he was not conceited, not self opinionated, not misanthropic.
He appeared, however, to look on everything from an exalted standpoint, saw every imperfection, and
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