“The letters Z, O and O dominate the front entrance gates of a capital city zoo. They are made of glass and they tower up two giraffes high. They are the width of one elephant and the colour of bottled blue ink.”

—  Peter Greenaway

A Zed and Two Noughts

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British film director 1942

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