Sophie Gee
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10,871 appearances
39 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 3d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The flood had made, the wind was nearly calm, and being bound down the river, the only thing for it was to come to and wait for the turn of the tide.
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The sea reach of the Thames stretched before us like the beginning of an interminable waterway.
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In the offing, the sea and the sky were welded together without a joint.
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And in the luminous space, the tan sails of the barges drifting up with the tide seemed to stand still in red clusters of canvas sharply peaked with gleams of varnished spirits.
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A haze rested on the low shores that ran out to sea in the vanishing flatness.
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The air was dark above Gravesend and farther back still seemed condensed into a mournful gloom brooding motionless over the biggest and greatest town on earth.
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And that's how Heart of Darkness starts.
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The Heart of Darkness is London.
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It's the Thames before we go to Africa.
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30,000
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world.
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And part of what I love about that opening, and I just was very struck by it, again, getting ready for this episode, I'd always remembered the opening, but I'd sort of forgotten that he does this.
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He uses the Thames to link up successive empires that have risen and fallen, and the common thread is darkness.
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And it's this kind of deep history of empire that's actually very, very contemporary for us.
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It's this recognition that the kind of calamity and catastrophes that we're now looking at
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globally are kind of held by this deep time of empires.
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And Conrad gets that at the turn of the century.
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And actually, it takes us to tradition and the individual talent, because Eliot's argument about literary history is that there aren't these individual genius people.
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You enter into this stream of history.
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It's like the Thames.
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