The woman whose flat downstairs I sometimes flood is a Coptic Egyptian. She doesn't hold the flood against me, and we make small talk in the lift. Today I came back with vegetables from the market, and she said to me: 'The market is getting so expensive now'. She's right, it is. The price of vegetables has gone through the roof in the past few weeks, for all kinds of reasons. For a moment it seemed like we could indeed be living in a world where the ebbs and flows of fortune are revealed by the price of broccoli or spuds. A world we ususally associate with markets in distant countries; markets where shopping has a meaning which is both exactly the same and completely different to our own.
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8.10.08
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