Passing stranger!
Victor Ash’s Astronaut, Mariannenstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
you do not know how longingly I look upon you,
Adalbertstraße, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
You must be he I was seeking, or she I was seeking, (it comes to me, as of a dream,)
Skalitzer Straße, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
I have somewhere surely lived a life of joy with you…
Skalitzer Straße, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
From Walt Whitman’s To a Stranger (1860)
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Razed the garden, profaned the chalices and the altars…
Trellick Tower, Golborne Road, Kensington & Chelsea, W10
…by horse the Huns broke into the Monastic library and they tore the incomprehensible books and they vituperated them and they burnt them…
Windmill Lane, Dublin, Dublin 2
…fearing their symbols and characters might be concealing secret blasphemies against their God…
Leake Street, Waterloo, Lambeth, SE1
…who was an iron scimitar.
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar, Tower Hamlets, E14
From Jorge Luis Borges’ The Theologians (1947)
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‘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)
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