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From: Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date: 19960901
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Byline: Evie Rapport Kansas City Star

You get off the coach from London in the modest little bus station here, trot down Gravel Walk past a parking lot and come face to face with the Marlowe Arcade.

The Marlowe Arcade? As in Christopher Marlowe? This is appalling. A shopping center named for the playwriting atheist murdered 400 years ago by fellow spies?

If they've done that to Marlowe - who was only born here in 1564 - what have they done to Geoffrey Chaucer, the 14th-century poet who immortalized the town in ``The Tales of Canterbury''? What horrors await? Ye Olde ...

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