London Zoo

And Max, the king of all wild things, was lonely…

London Zoo, Regent's Park, NW1

…and wanted to be where someone loved him best of all.

From Maurice Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are (1963)

Carlton Cinema

There are no characters in this story and almost no dramatic confrontations…

Carlton Cinema (now Mecca Bingo), Essex Road, Islington, N1

…because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces.

From Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five (1969)

Hampstead Scientific Society

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the Gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a Summer’s day…

Hampstead Scientific Society, Hampstead, Camden, NW3

…and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.

From Thornton Wilder’s Bridge of San Luis Rey (1927)