Wednesday, August 11, 2004
London has been continuously inhabited for over two thousand years; that is it's strength, and it's attraction. It affords the sensation of permanence, of solid ground. That is why the vagrant and the dispossessed lie in its streets; that is why the inhabitants of Harrow, of Croydon, call themselves 'Londoners'. It's history calls them, even if they do not know it. They are entering a visionary city.
Peter Ackroyd, London, The Biography.
Peter Ackroyd, London, The Biography.
