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The Silence of a Human Figure
Nod: For all the throng of humanity that exists in central London, almost nobody actually lives there. The apartments and residences that sit above the bustling shopfronts are almost all empty,. bought as investments by the financiers and oligarchs who have no desire or need to live in them. If you raise your eyes upwards in central London and count the lit windows, it's not at all unusual to see none at all. In a fit of sudden rage I struck out, my arm catching it on the side of what should have been ahead but the cloth crumpled beneath my blow, the mask fell and the figure collapsed into a heap. An absence of applause that nearly deaf