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"Can anything
be more eternally immutable than Oxford
Station?
Paris, Berlin, Vienna, have built, and re-built, and
built again, their monumental stations. Hundreds of
feet below the surface of London, stations have
sporadically spread after the manner of mushroom
spawn. I have even lived to see Waterloo Station
reconstructed and re-built. But Oxford Station never
varies and today is exactly as it flashed upon my
eager vision in '68. That it has been re-painted
since then I know, for I was once staying in Oxford
when this happened, and used to go specially to gaze
at the man told off for the job, and admire his
deliberate brushwork and the lingering care with
which he would add a touch and then step back to
admire it. But even then, when he had at last done,
the station looked exactly as before."
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