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From: jim@randvax.UUCP (Jim Gillogly)
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Subject: Re: Hell is a city much like Seville
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Date: Sat, 8-Mar-86 13:48:00 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar  8 13:48:00 1986
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In article <1712@mtgzz.UUCP> leeper@mtgzz.UUCP (m.r.leeper) writes:
>A recent Twilight Zone episode used the quote "Hell is a city much like
>Newark."  Now I know that it was a literary reference because in the
>"Don Juan in Hell" sequence of George Bernard Shaw's MAN AND SUPERMAN
>a character refers to a quote "Hell is a city much like Seville."  Does
>anyone know where the quote came from originally?  I get the impression
>it was not from the Shaw, but Bartlett's doesn't seem to have it.

My Bartlett's has it:

"Hell is a city much like London -
 A populous and smoky city."

	Peter Bell the Third [1819], part III, st. 1
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	Jim Gillogly
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