London

31 August 2013

Awaiting Liftoff

• Full flight crammed baggage
• We will be gone a long time
• Anticipation
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In Flight

• Flying northerly
• Diminishing roads and buildings
• Increasing clouds

Over Night

• Mysterious seas
• of blackness below our plane
• hurrying vastly
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1 September 2013

The Tube

• London Underground
• Riders wear coats in the heat
• Roaring clatter
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4 September 2013

Dr. Johnson’s House

• In his reading room
• this small volume was Johnson’s
• Seneca’s Tragedies
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In Memorium

• St Paul’s cathedral
• a marble Samuel Johnson
• as a togaed Greek

9 September 2013

Natural History Museum

• Charles Darwin presides
• over the bones and the crowds
• more worried than proud
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Archaeopteryx fossil

• Archaeopteryx
• the first feathered dinosaur
• emprinted in stone
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11 September 2013

The Ghost of a Flea

• Muscular insect,
• darkened and cracked tempura,
• ghost of William Blake.
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14 September 2013

British Library

• Ancient manuscripts,
• Beowulf and Guttenburg,
• Wilfred Owen’s draft.
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15 September 2013

Eurostar

• Smooth and quiet train
• rushing through green countryside
• Liz and I inside
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