Irish travellers to eastern Europe before the fall
of the Berlin Wall in 1989
were struck by the sense of familiarity they felt
in cities such as Warsaw, Prague or Budapest.
And I, on the other hand,
a welfare-cushioned
Northern Irish Protestant, rather liked
a similarity of atmosphere in
Belfast and East Berlin.
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How Proust can Change your Life is a brilliant book
by Alain de Botton.
How Priests have destroyed hundreds of thousands of lives
doesn't bear thinking about.
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