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Going Underground

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Will Self on why he longs for the day he can travel again on the London underground.

Will Self on why - after a year of not travelling on the London underground - he's starting to miss it.

Will Self reflects on a year of not travelling on the London underground... and why he's starting to miss it.  

"On winter days," writes Will, "when it's dark first thing, then twilight, then dark again, the tube achieves its most magical state."

And he says that, without the tube, the city seems to have lost its foundations.

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