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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One of these arrived with a written list of questions, took a shorthand note of all I said, and then brought me a proof to correct.
In interviewing, this amounts almost to genius.
I have indicated what to me seems a defect, trifling, possibly, but still a defect, in the brilliant organization of the great national sport of interviewing.
Were this defect removed, as it could be, the institution might be as perfect as the American oyster, than which nothing is more perfected.
You aren't drinking your coffee, said someone, inspecting my cup at the saloon table.
No, I answered firmly, for when the smooth efficiency of my human machine is menaced, I am as fatty and nervous as a marine engineer over lubrication.
If I did, I shouldn't sleep.
And what of it?
demanded my particular friend, challengingly.
It was a rebuke.
It was as if he had said On this great night when you enter my wondrous and romantic country for the first time, what does it matter whether you sleep or not?
I saw the point.
I drank the coffee.
The romantic sense which had been momentarily driven back by the discussion of general ideas swept over me.
In fact, through the saloon windows could be seen all the battery end of New York and the first vague visions of skyscrapers.
Then, the moments refused to be counted, we were descending by lifts and by gangways from the high upper decks of the ship down into the rocky ground of the United States.
I don't think that any American ever set foot in Europe with a more profound and delicious thrill than that which affected me at that instant.
I was there.
The official and unofficial activities of the quay passed before me like a dream.
I heard my name shouted by a man in a formidably severe uniform, and I thought, Thus early have I somehow violated the constitution of these states.
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