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Barcelona
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I wake up, drowsily, in a dingy cellar lit only by a single bare bulb, my wrists handcuffed together. 'Oh shit, surely this can't be happening?' My thoughts slowly crystallising. 'What on earth am I doing here? Why am I in my running gear?' Slowly it comes back to me, I was out running, the moped, the car, my assailants! 'But why, oh why? I've been kidnapped, but why would anyone want to do this to me? It doesn't make any sense!
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In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
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