Evening Standard - London, October 1st, 2007
ONE OF my favourite London libraries has just been decommissioned. Actually, it was a wall, in a small street off Brick Lane, which was knocked down recently. On it, over weeks and months and years, local kids, nocturnal bards and lairy outsiders had sprayed, scribbled and stuck on an entire archive of ephemeral texts bigging up their posses, offering up praise songs to Osama bin Laden, volunteering the phone numbers of sex-hungry pals, advertising gigs and gallery shows, or just writing their names over and over again.
Were future historians, like those who excavated Pompeii, to dig up this ...
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