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24.9.40 [George Orwell]

September 24, 2010 in Barcelona, John Lewis, Political, War-time, aeroplanes, bombs, marble arch, mosquito, oxford circus, oxford street, shell by orwelldiaries

Oxford Street yesterday, from Oxford Circus up to the Marble Arch, completely empty of traffic, and only a few pedestrians, with the late afternoon sun shining straight down the empty roadway and glittering on innumerable fragments of broken glass. Outside John Lewis’s, a pile of plaster dress models, very pink and realistic, looking so like a pile of corpses that one could have mistaken them for that at a little distance. Just the same sight in Barcelona, only there it was plaster saints from desecrated churches.

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