You give me far too much credit, friend. I wrote simply, I wrote what I experienced, what I witnessed, no more and no less. Well, perhaps both more and less. One can never be sure, what was real and what was imagined, after all.
I do not see the Thames where I am, though it is nearby. I've asked a kind young fellow, dressed rather oddly, but that is neither here nor there. Apparently I am here, right where I am. [Intersection]