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I think airports are places of huge human drama. the more i see of it, the more i am convinced that heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. but what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.
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I Think Airports Are Places Of Huge

Tony Parsons
I think airports are places of huge human drama. the more i see of it, the more i am convinced that heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. but what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.
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A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be that profound secret and mystery to every other. a solemn consideration, when i enter a great city by night, that every one of those darkly clustered houses encloses its own secret; that every room in every one of them encloses its own secret; that every beating heart in the hundreds of thousands of breasts there, is, in some of its imaginings, a secret to the heart nearest it!
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