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Although there are around 160 universities in the UK, and only a small minority of students attend Oxford & Cambridge, in the world of British fiction it seems the vast majority of students attend Oxbridge.
This reflects both the laziness of authors in their building of incidental detail & the stranglehold these two universities have over the literate arts....
It really annoys me & each time I see it in a book I feel like stopping reading right there & then...
#books #fiction #universities
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