London Under

Introduction poate vom folosi primul paragraph, cu o mica imbunatatire.

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Like the nerves of the human body (p.2) the complexity of the underworld is a
mixture of history, mythology and fantasy on so many levels that it is almost impossible
to tell the difference between dreams, fantasy, superstitions or the horrid truth.
The lowest levels of the underworld are described as a place where good and evil are no
longer two opposed words, but they overlap in enchantment and terror. The symbolic
figures of the Minotaur (p.3) and the three-headed dog, Cerberus, that guard the gates of
the underworld are both symbols of fear and danger intertwined with a feeling of safety
and protection. The healing wells and the places of worship that lie beneath the streets
create an allusive impression of charm, but the association of this deep level with the
poor, the criminals, the beggers and the rats, i.e. the undesirable, is interpreted as a
representation of the human uncounscious (p.10), i.e. an ugly place that holds grief,
poverty, and sorrow or, in Ackroyds words (p.13) a vision of hell itself.
On our way up, at the earth ground floor rooms, the past is rewritten by numerous
discoveries of graves, coffins, cellars, crypts and catacombs, a death place (p.28) that
no one dares to acknowledge. Prehistoric objects, rests of impressive monuments buried
within and trackways of the Bronze Age that stand proof of what Ackroyd states we are
treading upon our ancestors (p 14).
History itself flows out with a single touch. The third chapter of the book explains the
perfect connection between the underworld and the surface; i.e. the holy water. The wells
and springs that come from just beneath the surface remind us that our world at surface
would not have existed without the elements that water carries: minerals, iron, and
magnesium; in other words, life.

Conclusion:
The bricolage of terms used by the author manages to capture the essence of this
underworld in a complex and personal manner, envisioning the past through his own
eyes but, at the same time, taking us for a walk through history by stating facts and
mentioning sources, which is exactly what he was supposed to offer the readers or what I
had expected to read when looking over the content of this book.