The Concuspidor:

I wonder what it's like to be picked out of the crowd and waved at by me? Pretty damned overawing, I should think. Particularly for a rank nobody, excited to be sharing the street with what must seem to them to be a walking legend. Like these simple city-folk, I should think I'd be so impressed by it all that I wouldn't even know how to wave back. They are stupified by me, yes, that's what it is. I can understand that.

One more lap should do it. It's important not to leave any streets out and thereby inadvertently cause offence by denying anyone the chance to admire.

Through the City Streets
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