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The Animal Within Me

I sat in the sun on a bench; the animal within me licking the chops of memory…

Corleck Head, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street, Ranelagh, Dublin 2

…the spiritual side a little drowsed, promising subsequent penitence, but not yet moved to begin.

From Robert Louis Stephenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

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Tobacco Dock

This grove, that was now so peaceful, must then have rung with cries, I thought…

Tobacco Dock, Porters Walk, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, E1W

and even with the thought I could believe I heard it ringing still.

Tobacco Dock, Porters Walk, Wapping, Tower Hamlets, E1W

From Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1883)

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Monument to the Unknown Artist

“If he be Mr Hyde…

Greyworld's Monument to the Unknown Artist, Sumner Street, Southwark, SE1

…I shall be Mr Seek.”

Greyworld's Monument to the Unknown Artist, Sumner Street, Southwark, SE1

From Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886)

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