My title is a somewhat obvious, not to say awkward, patchwork of citations. Yet the citations serve a telegraphic function with regard to those perceptions of London pursued throughout this book, as the articulation and presentation of the city comes to be understood through the texts of the twentieth century on which the present volume focuses. Endlessness, variety, the eternal, the past, haunting, and, inferentially, inheritance, reception, and the relation between city and subject: all speak — and figure — that which is shared between Elizabeth Bowen, Maureen Duffy, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair in their perceptions of and responses to London. Alluding then to what is shared amongst the writers with which Writing London — Volume 2 concerns itself, the two quotations arrive from Ackroyd's writing. They serve to imply a cluster or constellation of already mapped interests in and responses to the city beyond the immediate focus of Ackroyd's texts. These are echoed in turn, supplemented through the imaginary and spectral, phantasmic work of the epigraphs, which serve to illustrate Ackroyd's concerns with London and what he perceives as its spiritual or sacred continuities, especially as those are projected through particular privileged London subjects. With such a configuration in mind, and with an eye both to the structural and historical interactions and the referential, echoing density in mind, it is on Doctor Dee and Dan Leno and the city's "apotropaic magic" (Benjamin AP 335) that this chapter concentrates.