James Weldon Johnson - When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despai...

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When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make.

James Weldon Johnson

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Als wir in London ankamen, wurde meine Traurigkeit, Paris zu verlassen, in Verzweiflung verwandelt. Nach meinem langen Aufenthalt in der französischen Hauptstadt schien mir das riesige, schwerfällige London so hässlich zu sein, wie es der Mensch sich vorstellen konnte.

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