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A sentimental break

It’s the night before the move, and I’ve just taken a last stroll around the Radcliffe Camera. Hardly anyone there, but a party of Spanish bankers calling affectionately at each other. Oxford is soaked in nostalgia, and my dose has arrived early. I'm not going far, nor am I going to move to a radically different environment. I swap bogs for fens. I’m looking through Brideshead to find the words to salute Oxford, especially in this week of low mists and unseasonably wintry light.

There aren’t any, I suppose.

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Anonymous said…
Got to love the Radcliffe Camera. Great post, and great blog.
November 11, 2013 at 6:12 PM
Shelf of One's Own said…
Thanks! I agree; it's an incomparable building.
March 18, 2014 at 6:23 AM
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