I walk past it every day on my way to work at the London School of Economics and Political Science. It's placed just outside The Bloomsbury Deli by Bedford Square. This is a description from Dickens of the wonderfully named Charles Kitterbell...
Mr. Charles Kitterbell was a small, sharp, spare man, with a very large head, and a broad, good-humoured countenance. He looked like a faded giant, with the head and face partially restored; and he had
a cast in his eye which rendered it quite impossible for any one with whom he conversed to know where he was looking. His eyes appeared fixed on the wall, and he was staring you out of countenance; in short, there was no catching his eye, and perhaps it is a merciful dispensation of Providence that such eyes are not catching. In addition to these characteristics, it may be added that Mr. Charles Kitterbell was one of the most credulous and matter-of-fact little personages that ever took TO himself a wife, and FOR himself a house in Great Russell-street, Bedford-square. (Uncle Dumps always dropped the 'Bedford-square,' and inserted in lieu thereof the dreadful words 'Tottenham-court-road.')
3 comments:
Does Sherlock Holmes have one in Baker Street? Also I think somewhere in London there is a Monty Python blue plaque.
I think there's one to Monty Python in Neal's Yard (but I could be wrong).
With a description like that, I think that he does become real, don't you?!
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