From the NS archive: Through the bars
22 August 1959: The zoo is a penitentiary, a theatre, an alms house, a laboratory, a conference room, a microcosm.
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New Times,
New Thinking.
22 August 1959: The zoo is a penitentiary, a theatre, an alms house, a laboratory, a conference room, a microcosm.
By John BergerJohn Berger finds wider ripples of thought in his local pool.
By John Berger