Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — The Pilgrim Visits Cathedrals
(1925)
“ CATHEDRAL towns are small towns with large cathedrals, in which immoderately long services are held; and the sacristan comes up and enjoins the tourist not to look at the ceiling and the pillars, but to sit down in a pew and listen to what is being sung by the choir. This is the custom of the sacristans in Ely, Lincoln, York and Durham ”
Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — The Pilgrim Visits Cathedrals
(1925)
“ Around is the fair region of Yorkshire, a landscape of massive cows and renowned pigs, the head-quarters of all English hams and bacons; and the streets in York are old and pretty, with projecting gables and black rafters. ”
Karel Čapek,
Letters from England — The Pilgrim Visits Cathedrals
(1925)
“ And what is worse, in the middle of the chief nave there is an enclosed choir for the parsons, ministrants and the élite of the diocese; the rest of the people are seated below and see nothing but the more or less carved walls of the choir and the back of the organ ”
