Tom Crowley
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390 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Dec 2020
last heard Dec 2020
Tom Crowley’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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This gruff, low voice asked, I went, No, no, no, wait, hang on, not like that.
It was more like, The green eyes looked me over once, twice, and then, and just like that, the opening closed up again.
A moment passed.
Then another.
And another.
Okay, I started to get worried.
I'd spent the last of my cash buying the directions to this place and the password.
If I'd been had, that was it.
I had nothing.
No backup plan.
I'd have to... As I was saying.
A moment later, the door swung open, revealing a staircase that led down into the basement.
I nodded to the doorman and nonchalantly walked in.
Now, most people think of the speakeasy as an American invention.
1920s, age of prohibition.
And the word might come from thereabouts, but the concept, that goes quite a bit further back in the unseen world.
The truth is, as long as magic's been hard to see, there's been a market for places where, well, where you know that everyone is going to see things your way.
And as long as that's existed, there's been a market for places where one might see a man about the kind of magic that some might find unseemly.
And in Paris, there's no better place for unseemly than the ragtime.
I remember the first thing I noticed about the place was the air.
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