THE PHILOSOPHY LINE ; Where Does a Modern Thinking Man Go to Seek Wisdom? A Monastery? A Library? Christopher Ross (Right) Chose a Different Route to Enlightenment, Joining the London Underground as a Humble Station Assistant. at Oxford Circus He Found a Plato's Cave of Human Comedy and Fallibility

Christopher Ross, Photographs David Moore, The Independent (London, England)

There were eight shopping days left until Christmas, but the shabby black youth making his way down the escalator to the northbound Bakerloo Line platform at Oxford Circus neither knew nor cared. He was sleeping rough and shopping wasn't a priority. His head was spinning. It had grown colder in the last few days and, earlier, he couldn't feel his toes. He was muttering rhythmically: "Don't think, don't think."

At nearly 11pm, the young man stood on the platform crowded with high- spirited homebound Londoners, none of whom noticed how their exuberance further depressed the lone figure.

Looking up he gazed at a poster. A beautiful girl selling something for pounds …

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