The early clerk population are fast pouring into the city
middle-aged men whose salaries
have by no means increased in the same proportion as their families
plod steadily along, apparently with no object in view
but the counting house, knowing by sight almost everybody they meet or overtake
For they have seen them every morning, Sunday excepted
during the last 20 years but speaking to no-one
(A resemblance of Sodomy or the last day)
(Sodomy索多玛:《圣经》中的罪恶之地)
On the October 16th 1834
the Houses of Parliament burned to the ground
Once again, it was as though the day of judgement for the city was at hand
Among the astonished crowd was a Cockney artist named Joseph Mallord William Turner