W. H. D. Rouse
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2,788 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 8 Aug
W. H. D. Rouse’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It alone did not oscillate.
Forty five thousand tons were swaying, but not that towel.
The sense of actual present romance was too strong to let me read.
I extinguished the light and listened in the dark to the faint straining noises of the enormous organism.
I thought this magic thing is taking me there.
In three days I shall be on that shore.
Terrific adventure.
The rest of the passengers were merely going to America.
The magic thing was much more magic than I had conceived.
The next morning, being up earlier than usual, and wandering about on strange enclosed decks unfamiliar to my feet, I beheld astonishing, unsuspected populations of men and women and
crowds of them a healthy, powerful, prosperous, independent, somewhat stern, and disdainful multitude, it seemed to me.
Those muscular striding girls in caps and shawls would not yield an inch to me and their promenade.
They brushed strongly and carelessly past me.
Had I been a ghost, they would have walked through me,
They were and had been all living, eating, and sleeping, somewhere within the vessel, and I had not imagined it.
It is true that some ants in the saloon had already calculated for my benefit that there were three thousand souls on board.
The solemn use of the word souls in this connection by a passenger should stamp a man forever.
But such numerical statements do not really arouse the imagination.
I had to see with my eyes, and I did see with my eyes.
That afternoon a high officer of the ship, spiriting me away from the polite flirtations and pastimes of the upper decks, carried me down to more exciting scenes, and I saw a whole string of young women inoculated against smallpox under the interested gaze of a crowd of men ranging on
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