Tony Walker
speaker
15,273 appearances
26 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard yesterday
Tony Walker’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 26 in all, peaking in Jul 2026 with 12.
Appearances
For an instant we saw only sky and sea,
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A few moments later, obelisks commenced to tower in the distance, pylons and vast flights of steps guarded by sphinxes became clearly outlined against the horizon.
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We had reached our destination.
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The princess conducted me to a mountain of rose coloured granite, in the face of which appeared an opening so narrow and low that it would have been difficult to distinguish it from the fissures in the rock had not its location been marked by two stelli wrought with sculptures.
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Hermontis kindled a torch and led the way before me.
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We traversed corridors hewn through the living rock, their walls covered with hieroglyphics and paintings of allegorical processions, might well have occupied thousands of arms for thousands of years in a formation.
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These corridors of interminable length opened into square chambers, in the midst of which pits had been contrived, through which we descended by crampirons or spiral stairways.
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These pits again conducted us into other chambers, opening into other corridors, likewise decorated with painted sparrowhawks, serpents coiled in circles, the symbols of the time.
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and pedum, prodigious works of art which no living eye can ever examine, interminable legends of granite which only the dead have time to read through all eternity,
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At last we found ourselves in a hall so vast, so enormous, so immeasurable, that the eye could not reach its limits.
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Files of monstrous columns stretched far out of sight on every side, between which twinkled livid stars of yellowish flame, points of light which revealed further depths incalculable in the darkness beyond.
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The Princess Hermontis still held my hand and graciously saluted the mummies of her acquaintance.
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My eyes became accustomed to the dim twilight and objects became discernible.
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I beheld the kings of the subterranean races seated upon thrones, grand old men, though dry, withered, wrinkled like parchment and blackened with naphtha and bitumen, all wearing psh of gold and breastplates and gorgets glittering with precious stones.
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Their eyes immense
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Immovably fixed like the eyes of sphinxes, and their long beards whitened by the snow of centuries.
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Behind them stood their peoples, in the stiff and constrained posture enjoined by Egyptian art, all eternally preserving the attitude prescribed by the Hariatic Code.
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Behind these nations the cats, ibixes and crocodiles contemporary with them, rendered monstrous aspect by their swathing bands, mewed, flapped their wings, or extended their jaws in a sorian giggle.
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All the pharaohs were there Chiops, Caprancis, Sameticus, Cisostris, Amenota,
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All the dark rulers of the pyramids and syrinxes
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