Edward Hopper Pont du Carrousel in the Fog painting

Edward Hopper Pont du Carrousel in the Fog paintingEdward Hopper Painter and Model paintingEdward Hopper Office in a Small City painting
stone's throw from the great stadium surrounded by imperial echoes -- Empire Way, the Empire Pool -- of more than a hundred delegates, all tracing their ancestry back to a single, small Goan village. -- "We Londoners can be proud of our hospitality," he'd told Pamela, and she, giggling helplessly, took him to see the Buster Keaton movie of that name, in which the comedian, arriving at the end of an absurd railway line, gets a murderous reception. In those days they had enjoyed living within him" to have been "made, shaped and quickened" by his encounter with this islet of sensibility, surrounded by the cool sense of the sea. -- Of material things, he had given his love to this city, London, preferring it to the city of his birth or to any other; had been creeping up on it, stealthily, with mounting excitement, freezing into a statue when it looked in his direction, dreaming worth the total output of any other dramatist in any other language, and though he was conscious of hyperbole, he didn't think the exaggeration very great