After Mark Gertler’s painting of 1916 Here we go round the merry-go-round, the merry-go-round, the merry-go-round, here we go round the merry-go-round in saecula saeculorum: on Hampstead Heath by threes we turn, no way forward – we never learn – fixed for ever, still and moving – our nannies nod their heads approving; trapped, we look in the

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