I’ve been poked in the back at the tower of London. Someone did that in the gift shop, as if the person wanted to get by me. I thought it was pretty rude, and stepped aside, saying, “Just a s-“. I stopped no sentence with nothing but thin air there, and no one within twe...
Ghost Childrenby liz02 This has only happened once but still, it freaked me out. I used to live in a flat in London above a shop. My bedroom was on one side of the flat and the kitchen and living room were on the other side, there was a staircase splitting it into two. There we...
I had first encountered Mike Lake when he worked behind the till of Dark They Were and Golden Eyed in Berwick Street in London's Soho. Every Saturday morning I'd get on the Piccadilly line tube train from Wood Green to Piccadilly Circus, wander up Shaftesbury Avenue, turn left into Rupert...
Or, returning to Richard Middleton’s excellent example: there is no such thing as London, there are only houses. No man has seen London at any time; the very word (meaning “the fort on the lake”) is nonsensical; no human eye has ever beheld aught else but a number of houses; ...
It is important to remember that Jacob Marley was dead.Did Scrooge know that?Of course he did. 要记住雅各布·马利已经死了,这可是件重要的事儿。斯克罗吉知道这个吗?他当然知道。 Scrooge and Marley had been partners in London for many years,and excellent men of business they were,too.When Mar...
For De Quincey, particularly, narcotised mid- night rambling implicated him in the economies of London labour and the London poor: the night-markets, the working subcultures of porters and cabmen, and the degrading economy of sex, in the myth-figure of the child-prostitute Ann of Oxford ...
Ivan laid out an evening suit, and Rainsford, as he put it on, noticed that it came from a London tailor who ordinarily cut and sewed for none below the rank of duke. The dining room to which Ivan conducted him was in many ways remarkable. There was a medieval magnificence about it...
London Bridge Michael Fiandaca Age 7·Illinois Best Friends Best friends have magic,not the kind you see.If you want to see it,love is the key.Eddie Schiller Age 9·New York Singing Irene Lu Age 8. Shanghai Home Home, a place to go after a day of fun.Home, a place to go after ...
London, 1802. Caption: “XXX. JULIUS CAESAR. ACT IV. SCENE III. BRUTUS’S TENT, IN THE CAMP NEAR SARDIS. Brutus and the Ghost of Caesar.” Image in the public domain. While we are used to ominous ghosts appearing in the plays of Shakespeare and in those of his early modern ...
I had acquired it from an shop specializing in antiques and tobaccos. It was my first time trying it out and it felt right in both my hand and in my mouth. I had wondered about its history but the shopkeeper knew only that a young woman had inherited it from a great-great uncle and...