Sophie Gee
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11,180 appearances
40 recordings
3 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 2d ago
Sophie Gee’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And I think his description of the Thames is so good that I want to give him his moment in the sun, even though this has been dominated by British writers.
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Here's what Hawthorne
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Exactly.
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Here's Nathaniel Hawthorn.
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The aspect of London along the Thames, below bridge as it's called, is by no means so impressive as it ought to be, considering what peculiar advantages are offered for the display of grand and stately architecture by the passage of a river through the midst of a great city.
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It seems indeed as if the heart of London had been cleft open for the mere purpose of showing how rotten and drearily mean it had become.
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A sort of guilty conscience, as it were, unwholesome with the rivulets of sin that constantly flow into it.
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It's just a dismal stream to glide by such a city.
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Which is so strange because, I mean, you look at those Whistler images now and they are absolutely extraordinary, really beautiful and really definitive the way we think of London.
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opposite of a nocturne.
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is, is Wilde just going to bed or is he getting up early to go for
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sure is, especially with that dramatic cloudscape.
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That's amazing.
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It's a real transformation.
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And I love what you're saying about this pivot from Dickensian and 19th century realism into this... Well, I mean, we're almost in T.S.
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Eliot there,
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the impressions of colour, the symbolism of the river as this kind of shifting, constantly changing series of impressions and sense perceptions that don't have a narrative attached to them per se.
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And I think what we're seeing, actually, is the transformation of the river into this allegory...
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Not even an allegory, an opportunity for the narrative, for the writing of Stream of Consciousness.
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We're getting this kind of flow of emotion and perception.
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