The big fuss the American media have made over the wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton reminds me of a passage from Henry David Thoreau's Walden; or, Life in the Woods:
"We are eager to tunnel under the Atlantic and bring the old world some weeks nearer to the new; but perchance the first news that will leak through into the broad, flapping American ear will be that the Princess Adelade has the whooping cough."
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