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- paraselene0
lol! yeah, this place has an amazing aesthetic quality built into the air. even when it's bad, it's good! this winter i was walking near southwark cathedral in the drizzle and fog, thinking about all of the diabolical people who had tread my same steps. as i passed the golden hind and nodded to the ghost of sir francis himself, i looked up at st. paul's, shrouded in mist and properly dickensian and thought, 'fuck me, conrad, you were so spot on! this, too, has been one of the dark places of the earth.' strangely enough, the city of which london most often reminds me is havana, with all it's pulsating jungle sex frenzy threatening to burst up through the concrete. these polar opposites are more alike than you'd think; the birthplace of marxism and her deathbed, the madly beating heart of capitalism and the last bastion of opposition to it...