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T. S. Eliot called the Thames ‘a strong brown god’ and for two thousand years it has flowed through London an immutable and implacable force, indifferent to the human drama enacted daily on its banks. ‘Almost forgotten’ the river flows on as a ‘reminder of what [we] choose to forget’.
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Bloom, C. (2010). The Man in the Third Carriage. In: Violent London. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230289475_27
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