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From: The Independent - London
Date: 20080216
Author:HOWARD JACOBSON

Much taken by what Alexa Chung - a person I have never heard of - told Deborah Ross in an interview in The Independent Magazine last week. So deep was her love of English at school, she remembered, that she took an extra hour of it every lunch hour, "and when we did Sophocles I was like, wow, Sophocles is amazing".

Never mind that Sophocles isn't, and indeed never was, English. In these new dark ages of ours we must be grateful when someone finds a writer like, wow, amazing, regardless of any confusion in language and nationality. Rush out a new edition of Oedipus the King, I say to ...

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