Interludio londinese

Now, we come to discover that the moments of agony
(Whether, or not, due to misunderstanding,
Having hoped for the wrong things or dreaded the wrong things,
Is not in question) are likewise permanent
With such permanence as time has. We appreciate this better
In the agony of others, nearly experienced,
Involving ourselves, than in our own.
For our own past is covered by the currents of action,
But the torment of others remains an experience
Unqualified, unworn by subsequent attrition.
People change, and smile: but the agony abides.
Time the destroyer is time the preserver,
Like the river with its cargo of dead negroes, cows and chicken coops,
The bitter apple, and the bite in the apple.
And the ragged rock in the restless waters,
Waves wash over it, fogs conceal it;
On a halcyon day it is merely a monument,
In navigable weather it is always a seamark
To lay a course by, but in the sombre season
Or the sudden fury, is what it always was.

Thomas S. Eliot, I Dry Salvages, II, 104 - 123

Neal's Yard

Uno degli ingressi di Chinatown

In Hyde Park

In Hyde Park

La sala araba nella casa di Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

La sala araba nella casa di Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

Nella Leighton-House, ora un museo che raccoglie fra gli altri i lavori di Sir Frederic Leighton (1830-1896)

Nel cortile interno del Leighton House Museum

Flaming June di Sir Frederic Leighton (1895), olio su tela

A Holland Park

Affaccio su Great Queen Street

Notturno dal Waterloo Bridge

Esterno della St. Pancreas Old Church, riedificata così nel XIX secolo

Interno della St. Pancreas Old Church, riedificata nel XIX secolo

Per le strade di Camden

In stile gotico vittoriano, sotto le volte in un cortile della Royal Courts of Justice (ca. 1870)

Henry Wallis, Chatterton (1856), olio su tela esposto alla Tate Britain

Guardando Caligula's Palace and Bridge (1831) di Joseph Mallord William Turner, esposto alla Tate Britain

Partcolare di The Field of Waterloo (1815), olio su tela di Joseph Mallord William Turner esposto alla Tate Britain

Particolare della Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), olio su tela di Joseph Mallord William Turner esposto alla Tate Britain

Snow Storm: Hannibal and his Army Crossing the Alps (1812), olio su tela di Joseph Mallord William Turner esposto alla Tate Britain

St Benedetto, Looking towards Fusina (1842), olio su tela di Joseph Mallord William Turner esposto alla Tate Britain

Guardando The Shipwreck (1805), olio su tela di Joseph Mallord William Turner esposto alla Tate Britain

William Blake, Oberon, Titania and Puck with Fairies Dancing (ca. 1786), acquerello e matita esposto alla Tate Britain

Nella sala della Tate Britain riservata alle sculture di Henry Moore (1898-1986)

Antipasto in Queen Street