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Speaking of Cowley, Iain Sinclair wrote, "the knowledge that Bill Griffiths had lived here for a time (before the loss of his boat in a fire) made it special." A portrait: "Fading Hell's Angel tattoos on the cuticle-chomped digits of a softly spoken man: LOVE/HATE. Bill wheezes, enjoys a roll-up. Beneath all that scholarship - stately build disguised under lumberjack shirt and baseball cap - is a man of the river."