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Trained for a life of travel

Sep 12, 2008
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3:58AM Saturday Sep 13, 2008 By Michele Hewitson "I woke and yawned and, as always, took a vitamin pill and shaved with my battery-powered razor and brushed my teeth." So writes Paul Theroux in a travel book which is the next volume of the autobiography he "will never write", but "once envisioned. As Pedro Almodovar once remarked, 'anything that is not autobiography is plagiarism'." Thirty-three years ago an... [read full story]                    

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