“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense.
Jill Berelowitz's Core Femme, Cavendish Square, Westminster, W1G
Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t.
Lorenzo Quinn's Vroom Vroom, Park Lane, Westminster,W1K
And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would.
Mauro Perucchetti's Jelly Baby Family, Marble Arch, Westminster, W1H
You see?”
From Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865)
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“But I like the animals better than the ‘best people’,” said the Doctor.
Boissenvain & Osmond's Elephant & Castle Shopping Centre, Elephant & Castle, Southwark, SE1
“You are ridiculous,” said his sister, and walked out of the room.
Yolanda Vandergaast's Penguin, Clare Market, Holborn, Westminster, WC2A
So, as time went on, the Doctor got more and more animals…
Kenny Hunter's I Goat, Spitalfields Square, Old Spitalfields Market, Horber Square, Tower Hamlets, E1
and the people who came to see him got less and less.
Battersea Park, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW11
Till at last he had no one left…
Ai Weiwei's Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads, Somerset House, Strand, Westminster, WC2R
except the Cat’s-meat-Man, who didn’t mind any kind of animals.
Nic Fiddian-Green's Horse at Water, Marble Arch, Westminster, W1H
But the Cat’s-meat Man wasn’t very rich and he only got sick once a year–at Christmas-time, when he used to give the Doctor sixpence for a bottle of medicine.
Regent's Canal, Bethnal Green, Tower Hamlets, E2
From Hugh Lofting’s The Story of Dr Dolittle (1920)
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“No need to be a hero Andy,” she tutted, as he sprawled on the sofa recovering.
Raoul Wallenberg memorial, Great Cumberland Place, Marble Arch, Westminster, W1H
“Hero? I’m only trying to carry the shopping home. Some hero I’d make,” he gasped.
She was already out of earshot, pulling on the plastic thread of a cigarette packet in the kitchen.
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