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The Journal of a Disappointed Man
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W. N. P. Barbellion
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Near
Reilly's
Tavern,
I
saw
a
pavement
artist
who
had
drawn
a
loaf
with
the
inscription
in
both
French
and
English:
"This
is
easy
to
draw
but
hard
to
earn."
A
baby's
funeral
trotted
briskly
over
the
Tower
Bridge
among
Pink's
jam
waggons,
carts
carrying
any
goods
from
lead
pencils
and
matches
to
bales
of
cotton
and
chests
of
tea.
In
the
St.
Catherine's
Way
there
is
one
part
like
a
deep
railway
cutting,
the
whole
of
one
side
for
a
long
way,
consisting
of
the
brickwall
of
a
very
tall
warehouse
with
no
windows
in
it
and
beautifully
curved
and
producing
a
wonderful
effect.
Walked
past
great
blocks
of
warehouses
and
business
establishments--a
wonderful
sight;
and
everywhere
bacon
factors,
coffee
roasters,
merchants.
On
London
Bridge,
paused
to
feed
the
sea-gulls
and
looked
down
at
the
stevedores.
Outside
Billingsgate
Market
was
a
blackboard
on
an
easel--for
market
prices--but
instead
some
one
had
drawn
an
enormously
enlarged
chalk
picture
of
a
cat's
rear
and
tail
with
anatomical
details.
In
Aldgate,
stopped
to
inspect
a
street
stall
containing
popular
literature--one
brochure
entitled
Suspended
for
Life
to
indicate
the
terrible
punishment
meted
out
to
----,
a
League
footballer.
The
frontispiece
enough
to
make
a
lump
come
in
the
juveniles'
throats!
Another
stall
held
domestic
utensils
with
an
intimation,
"Anything
on
this
stall
lent
for
1d."
A
newsvendor
I
heard
exclaim
to
a
fellow-tradesman
in
the
same
line
of
business,--
"They
come
and
look
at
your
bloody
plakaard
and
then
passe
on."
Loitered
at
a
dirty
little
Fleet
Street
bookshop
where
Paul
de
Koch's
The
Lady
with
the
Three
Pairs
of
Stays
was
displayed
prominently
beside
a
picture
of
Oscar
Wilde.
Marker
Marker
Fine marker
White-out
Fine white-out
Circle
Paint
Unmarker
Hand
Scalpel
Dice
Sieve
Purify
Undo
Redo
Start over
