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Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good.
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Roger Norum Social anthropologist and translator turned travel journalist. Originally from Manhattan but in Oxford since 2004. Author for Rough Guides; contributor to various magazines and papers; writing and photography teacher with Creative Escapes (www.creative-escapes.co.uk). A facility with languages, an interest in cultural-social issues and a taste for adventure and the unexpected.
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"The Ladies has been kept clean all night by a woman attendant hurling buckets of water over the lavatories and whoever is using them at the time. She hands me some paper, studies me cleaning my teeth and folds my last rupee in the tip of her sari. I am putting on my lipstick when screams in the Transit Hall indicate Air India Flight 101 is finally leaving for London…"
Christine Osborne from Home on a Wing and a Wave, an account of
a journey home from Goa published in Montage Magazine, 1999.
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