Fictional Quote of the Day ...

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The Coasts of Bohemia is a fictional travel guide quoted in Lyra's Oxford by Oscar Baedecker.

 "…Oxford, where the real and the unreal jostle in the streets; where North Parade is in the south and South Parade is in the north, where Paradise is lost under a pumping station; where the river mists have a solvent and vivifying effect on the stone of the ancient buildings, so that gargoyles of Magdalen College climb down at night and fight with those from Wykeham, or fish under the bridges, or simply change their expressions overnight; Oxford, where windows open into other worlds…" 


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