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"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."
yer a goddam genius para.
if i'm ever driving out of london i can physically FEEL the dark mass of london pulsing behind me, it's like a magnetic heart that we can't escape for long. whenever i'm driving back in at night i feel like a little bloodcell getting pumped back in, all the red lights of the cars in front of me are the red cells and the white lights coming the other way are little white haemoglobins sent out to look for oxygen in the countryside.
re the book, have you read "London: A Biography" by Peter Ackroyd, or seen the bbc series? awesome stuff. i read about the farringdon marxist stuff in there. he talks a lot about how specific places in london have been used for specific purposes for thousands of years, as if particular personalities and purposes get physically etched into the concrete.