We are woken by the appalling sound of pipe music crackling through the carriage.
No one who has read the story will forget its drama — how an old man led a companion to a cliff high above the sea and showed him the water far below in a narrow passage between islands, with its sinister foam and scum, its uneasy bubbling and boiling, until suddenly the whirlpool formed before his eyes and rushed with an appalling sound through the waterway.
Video below (sorry about the appalling sound, and awful framing – this is what happens when I try to record a Skype call without asking the TCTV team for help).
However appalling apartheid sounded in the Eighties, when we boycotted Barclays and sneered at Cape grapes, actually seeing engineered repression and poverty in the form of gleaming corrugated-iron roof shacks a decade after everything is supposed to be better is no less shocking.
Obviously, this sounds appalling.
Bizarre and appalling as this sounds – and the FA is currently investigating – is it not an isolated incident.
"If the idea sounds appalling, you are going to be miserable, and nothing I say about the saffron-tinged cauliflower with chopped green olives or the arugula-fennel salad with pickled sardines is going to change your mind".
As appalling as this sounds to all the coquettes out there, apparently, women are not as happy in the sack as they should be.
WH: When he was arrested and tried and found guilty, he chose--I mean this sounds appalling to us, it's only the '50s--he chose chemical castration instead of going to jail.
