Been there, I thought, done that, read The Silmarillion. - Ben Aaronovitch

It’s a bland box of a building built in the 1970s; it was considered to be so lacking in architectural merit that there was talk of listing it so that it could be preserved for posterity as an awful warning.

His big claim to fame, beyond writing the first ever vampire novel, is his work attempting to classify where whatever it is that powers magic comes from. He called it potentia because there’s nothing quite like Latin for disguising the fact you’re making it up as you go along.

Have you ever been to London?" I asked.
"No," said Ash. "I've never even been in town before. Our dad doesn't hold with that sort of thing."
"Don't worry, it's basically just like the country," I said. "Only with more people.