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June 02, 2005

Laurence - The Fall Of Europe

Podcast of this storyThings are hard all over, but especially in Europe.

In Rome, taxis have been replaced by rickshaws pulled by starving pensioners.

You can't walk in London without tripping over three people shining your shoes.

Have problems folding a map in Berlin? Not any more - every petrol station features map-folders for hire.

It's easy to mistake the purse-snatchers of Paris for the porters and bearers.

But of all the fallen, pity Prague the most. The poor are stripped, painted like statuary, tangled in vines and daisies, and displayed in eight hour shifts.

Sad beasts, lining the grand avenues of yesterday.

Comments

Once again, I am guilty of posting my rough draft and then using the counter to count words and shave bits here and there.

And we all know what shaving your bits leads to... someone spank me! Spank me!

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