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If I went to London right now, here's a few things I'd do:
1 - Tate Modern - not to be missed for sure! Right now they have the H-Box, an exhibition of Cy Twombly's work, and a show with 6 street artists
2 - Visit the O2 for the Tutankhamun exhibition
3 - See a Musical - I'd recommend Les Misérables or for something more current, Hairspray
4 - Spencer House - a visit to an 18th century private palace complete with a secret garden
5 - See the Freeze 20 exhibition - a show of the original YBA's, a group of artists who were the catalysts for radical changes in the way the public relate to art in the UK
6 - Visit a London Market - Portobello road is one of the best
7 - Eat fish and chips while meandering around Soho and looking at the quirky stores
Couldn't keep it to 5...London is awesome. I love visiting there.
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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