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In addition, the book is certainly an enjoyable read. In her new preface the author comments on the “array of metaphors” she had used, and she seems a bit embarrassed about their frequency. Never mind – they add a nice touch. A small child, for example, is described as a “little blond fairy, with the eyes of the Artful Dodger”. True, some descriptions perhaps go a little over the top. Salesgirls behind check-out counters in a newly opened store in Sopron are “like satisfied astronauts at their controls after a successful take-off at Cape Canaveral” and on the next page Sopron itself is “a junction for all of life’s winding railway lines”.
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