He lives in London, works in London, is up to his nose and eyes in London, and does everything but eat London. He knows every street corner, every bus stop, every semi-detached row house, every subway station and every suburban train on a certain line that heads northward. His is not the visitor's London, or the sybarite's London, let alone the huge, transformed and repulsive center of London that is now part casino, part money-changer's, part yearlong tourist trap.