Everyone is privileged to have his/her own opinion. So I don’t feel offended. =)
Off course, now, everything is different anyway. So...
Though, I must say that the friend of the I-person is a bit wrong when he says: We're somewhere near Antwerp." Lier is exactly half way from Antwerp to Mechlin
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Yes, but do you understand why I was interested when it turned out that you lived in Lier? To me, after reading that account of fantastic disaster, Lier(re) had become a place of the mind, something like Lubeck for anyone who has read Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks, or Stoke-On-Trent for readers of Arnold Bennett's Anna of the Five Towns, or New York City for a million writers and moviemakers, Dublin for so many people who go there to trace the places of Joyce and so many other writers, Rome, Paris; or indeed London to the lovers of Dickens and Conan Doyle. Of course, I knew that there was such a place in reality - having checked on the atlas after I read the article - but one felt almost as though it had been invented and put on earth by the mad genius of G.K.C. himself. Or at least for his exclusive benefit.
I am glad you were not offended. Certainly it is no description to endear itself to a local. I would only like to point out that you made a small error of understanding - the protagonists wanted to be in Mechlin, so the fact
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Off course, now, everything is different anyway. So...
Though, I must say that the friend of the I-person is a bit wrong when he says:
We're somewhere near Antwerp."
Lier is exactly half way from Antwerp to Mechlin
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I am glad you were not offended. Certainly it is no description to endear itself to a local. I would only like to point out that you made a small error of understanding - the protagonists wanted to be in Mechlin, so the fact ( ... )
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