Presque vu XVI

Toby Litt on How I Write.

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American diplomatic staff in London have run up a debt of $3million in fines through the refusal by their embassy to accept congestion charges for the use of the city’s roads.

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Denied pens and paper, Guantanamo prisoners, scratched some of the poems in verses onto foam cups with pebbles. Other poems were translated into English by linguists with security clearances but no literary credentials.

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