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Rodinsky’s Room

This was an unrequired story. My feeling now is that the routines I listened to were the ones I solicited.

19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, E1

I was looking for confirmations and extensions of what I already knew.

Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, E1

Rodinsky was an empty space, a lacuna; that which was not to be uncovered something sealed and forgotten.

19 Princelet Street, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, E1

This was the period, the seventies between his disappearance and the breaking open the attic room. He wasn’t visible or invisible. He had neither presence nor absence.

Brick Lane, Spitalfields, Tower Hamlets, E1

His story hadn’t been formulated.

Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair's Rodinsky's Room (1999)

From Rachel Lichtenstein and Iain Sinclair’s Rodinsky’s Room (1999)

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Museum in Docklands (2008)

Abberline: Do you ever think about him Mr Lees?

Lees: About whom?

Jack the Ripper and the East End, Museum in Docklands (2008), No 1 Warehouse, West India Quay, Tower Hamlets, E14

Abberline: him.

Lees: Oh. Yes, yes. Sometimes. I try not to.

From Alan Moore’s script for Eddie Campbell’s From Hell (1991)

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