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And after that , more hypnotic wonders . On the third day Lincoln was moved to suggest that the Master should repair to a Pleasure City , but this Graham declined , nor would he accept the services of the hypnotists in his aeronautical experiments . The link of locality held him to London ; he found a perpetual wonder in topographical identifications that he would have missed abroad . `` Here -- or a hundred feet below here , '' he could say , `` I used to eat my midday cutlets during my London University days . Underneath here was Waterloo and the perpetual hunt for confusing trains . Often have I stood waiting down there , bag in hand , and stared up into the sky above the forest of signals , little thinking I should walk some day a hundred yards in the air . And now in that very sky that was once a grey smoke canopy , I circle in an aeropile . ''