The mythical America…that marvellous, heroic, sentimental land-was an object of faith. It challenged you to make the believer’s leap over the rude facts at your feet.
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The Falklands held a mirror up to our own islands, and it reflected, in brilliantly sharp focus, all our injured belittlement, our sense of being beleaguered, neglected and misunderstood.
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