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- Subject: American in Lodnon (c&c welcome)
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- Date: 23 Dec 92 14:52:57 GMT
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- American in London
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- The Tower of Babel thrives in London
- where tourists abound
- and cosmopolitan Europeans switch languages with aplomb.
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- Duelling Englishmen fight to give directions, voices surprisingly raised,
- and the most impeccable BBC accent comes from an old woman
- selling flowers.
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- And I, hapless American, search vainly for 'Lester Square',
- which I am assured is not far from 'Glosster'.
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- Until a smiling man who speaks little English,
- but understands plaintive lost puppy-dog looks,
- takes my arm and gently steers me to my destination.
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- An Italian in London.
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- *****
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- M.A. Mohanraj
- England
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- Here, write it, or it will be erased by the wind.
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- - Isabel Allende
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