![[London is] like the sight of a heavy sea from a rowing boat in the middle of the Atlantic.... One lives in it, afloat but half submerged in a heavy flood of brick, stone, asphalt, slate, steel, glass, concrete, and tarmac, seeing nothing fixable beyond a few score white spires that splash up like spits of foam above the next glum wave of dirty buildings.](/assets/img/quote-photos/london-is-like-the-sight-of-a-heavy-sea-from-a-rowing-boat-in-the-middle-of-the.jpg)
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