“Character is seen most clearly in choice under pressure.” — Scarlett Thomas, Monkeys with Typewriters
Shanghai Street
Army Careers, High Street, Canterbury, UK
Geisha, Kyoto
“When you read, don’t let the poet write down to you; read up to him. Reach for him from your gut out, and the heart and muscles will come into it, too.
—-James Dickey”
From anywhere, the Canterbury Cathedral
All Saints Lane, Canterbury, UK
At the gardens by the Victoria Embankment, London
(Source: shashikiran.com)
Lord Ganesha in Canterbury, on Palace Street
(Source: shashikiran.com)
I wander thro’ each charter’d street,
Near where the charter’d Thames does flow.
And mark in every face I meet
Marks of weakness, marks of woe.
In every cry of every Man,
In every Infants cry of fear,
In every voice: in every ban,
The mind-forg’d manacles I hear
How the Chimney-sweepers cry
Every blackning Church appalls,
And the hapless Soldiers sigh
Runs in blood down Palace walls
But most thro’ midnight streets I hear
How the youthful Harlots curse
Blasts the new-born Infants tear
And blights with plagues the Marriage hearse