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Re:Douglas Adams on the English–American cultural divide ove... by arethuza on Thursday January 22, 2026 @09:58AM (#46720027)
As Tolkien said: “My ‘Sam Gamgee’ is indeed a reflexion of the English soldier, of the privates and batmen I knew in the 1914 war, and recognized as so far superior to myself.”
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