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S. Worthen ([personal profile] owlfish) wrote2008-02-08 06:37 pm

Wigan Pier

The most important, world-shifting thing I've learned from reading Alice in Sunderland so far is this: there is no Wigan Pier.

It was all a joke, one which grew so far out of hand as to spawn a novel, a night club, a city quarter, a worldwide reputation. But it does not exist.

[livejournal.com profile] pittenweem - did you know this?

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