all the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. samuel johnson
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y i like camden
One evening I sat Beauty on my knees And I found her bitter And I reviled her. arthur rimbaud
urban myth
The anthropologist respects history, but he does not accord it a special value. He conceives it as a study complementary to his own: one of them unfurls the range of human societies in time, the other in space. Claude Levi-Strauss
30 st mary axe
with holland house — opened 1914, designed by the great dutch ‘father of modernism’, berlage
notting hill
*living in notting hill at the time of the movie of the same name, with julia roberts and hugh grant, i went to see it obligatorily at the notting hill coronet. you may remember that in the movie there is a scene of grant’s bumbling … Read More →
england’s green and pleasant
spring arrives early in london. only to disappear again, just as quickly. a Sunday walk on parliament hill, highgate, and hampstead The fields from Islington to Marybone, To Primrose Hill and Saint John’s Wood, Were builded over with pillars of gold, And there Jerusalem’s pillars stood… _ … Read More →
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