‘I come here to your beautiful country -’ Mr Raj saw through the window bare branches, coil after coil of dirty clouds, washing on neighbour lines, forlorn pecking birds, a distant brace of gasometers.
Regent's Canal, Haggerston, Tower Hamlets, E2
‘- your beautiful country, I say,’ he said defiantly.
Queenstown Road, Battersea, Wandsworth, SW8
‘…So far I have had mixed career. Fights and insults, complete lack of sexual sustenance – most necessary to men in prime of life – and inability to find accommodation commensurate with social position and academic attainments…’
Imperial Road, Hammersmith & Fulham, SW6
From Anthony Burgess’ The Right to an Answer (1960)
