Tuesday 14 May – Hampstead (Square B5 on the Tube map), Hampstead Heath (B5), Hanger Lane (C2), Harlesden (B3), Harringay Green Lanes (A7)
The cultured readers among my followers – and, I hasten to add, I consider all my readers pearls – will recognise the title as a quote from Keats’ heart-stopping sonnet, On first looking into Chapman’s Homer. You will have already called to mind the final sestet and be wondering: has Mr TubeforLOLs, that ‘watcher of the skies’, found ‘a new planet swimming into his ken’? Or is he, never the wilting violet, comparing himself to ‘stout Cortez when with eagle eyes’? Or – but this would surely be the very height of foolishness – comparing his vacant gawking on the Hampstead Heath bathing pools to Cortez staring at the Pacific? By this time readers will be, metaphorically-speaking, looking ‘at each other with a wild surmise – Silent, …’
But the most discerning readers will be saying, ‘What in thunder is the Old Codger up to now?’ They may even be querying the whole pointless TubeforLOLs project. In an excess of existentialism (or weariness) they may be questioning why they are bothering to follow post after post of TubeforLOLs.
There must be an explanation for all this, I hear them cry. Ah yes, there is, there is. Or, at least, there’s someone we can blame … Continue reading
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