Actually, it might be the Tottenham Court Road. This was the slowest bus journey in the world ever – I not only had time to read War and Peace, but managed to take a few snaps as well. I think consumerism and philosophies of reality work well together, so this seemed like an apposite pic for today’s word, which was “Plato’s cave”: ‘An imaginary cave in which prisoners are kept in such a way that all they can see are shadows created by puppeteers behind them, used by Plato (Republic VII.) as an allegory to explain the relationship between our perception of reality and the realm of ideas or forms (see idea n. 1a), the awareness of which is made possible by an ‘escape’ into the light of intellectual understanding. Hence allusive: something likened to Plato’s cave, esp. a situation in which a person experiences something merely by observation, or which appears unreal’, (OED).
Day #276 of a 365 project, where the daily pic is informed by the OED word of the day.