[Vwoolf] Plus ça change

[Stuart N. Clarke]

‘... in the middle years of the nineteenth century ... there were hackney cabs, which were expensive, at eight pence per mile, and uncomfortable, and drivers would often go by circuitous routes to boost their income’ (Christian Wolmer, “The Subterranean Railway” (London: Atlantic Books, 2020), p. 13


‘The cab was going the long way round as usual. “Left!” he shouted, “Left!” as the [hackney cab] driver, as they always did, took the wrong turning.’ (Y, ‘1891’, CUP, p. 104)


‘She looked at the [taxi] metre [sic] which had mounted rather high. The man was going the long way round. “He’ll find his way in time,” she said. They were gliding slowly round the square.’ (Y, ‘Present Day’, CUP, p. 304)



Stuart


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