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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But it was only a telegram for me, and then I was in a most rickety and confined taxi, and the taxi was full to the brim with luggage, two friends and me.
And I was off into New York.
At the centre of the first crossroads I saw a splendid and erect individual flashing forth authority, gayety, and utter smartness in the gloom.
Impossible not to believe that he was the owner of all the adjacent ground, disguised as a cavalry officer on foot.
What is that archduke?
I inquired.
He's just a cop.
I knew then that I was in a great city, and
The rest of the ride was an enfevered phantasmagoria.
We burst startlingly into a very remarkable deep glade, on the floor of it long and violent surface cars, a few open shops and bars with commissioneres at the doors, vehicles dipping and rising out of holes in the ground, vistas of forests of iron pillars, on the
on the top of which ran deafening, glittering trains, as on a tightrope.
Above all that a layer of darkness, and above the layer of darkness enormous moving images of things in electricity, a mastodon kitten playing with a ball of thread, an umbrella in a shower of rain, siphons of soda water being emptied and filled, gigantic horses galloping at full speed, and an incredible heraldry of chewing gum.
Sky signs.
In Europe I had always inveyed manfully against sky signs.
But now I bowed the head, vanquished.
These sky signs annihilated argument.
Moreover, had they not been made possible by the invention of a European, and that European an intimate friend of my own
I suppose this is Broadway, I ventured.
It was.
That is to say, it was one of the Broadways.
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