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TEXT 4. HOW TO AVOID TRAVELLING
George Mikes
'Travel' is the name of a modern
disease which became rampant in the mid-
fifties and is still spreading. The disease —
its scientific name is
travelitis furiosus —
is carried by a germ called prosperity. Its
symptoms are easily recognizable. The
patient grows restless in the early spring
and starts rushing about from one travel
agent
to
another
collecting
useless
information about places he does not intend to visit, then he, or usually
she, will do a round of tailors, summer sales, sports shops and spend
three and a half times as much as he or she can afford, finally, in August,
the patient will board a plane, train, coach or car and proceed to foreign
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