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We ate in the communal lounge area where the only other people were three young
Chinese students who were all immersed in guidebooks about Scotland.
After we had finished dinner, Ben decided - for no known reason - to make a scrabble
set out of a couple of bits of paper, which he tore into lots of individual letters. Ben had al-
ways seen himself as an expert scrabble player due to the amount of time he spent playing
thegameonsetduringhisactingjobs.Thisisnotaresultofhimhavingaparticularlywide
vocabulary, but simply because he had memorised all of the possible two letter words.
He was infuriating to play against. At one point he simply added the letter 'X' to score
50pointswiththeword'Xi'intwodirections.Ihadtositthroughanhourofhissmugface
ashepiledonthepointswithaseriesoftwoletterwordsthathehadnoideatothemeaning
of. Xi is the 14th letter of the Greek alphabet, in case you were wondering.
Ben then got talking to the Chinese students. They were in Scotland as part of a two
month tour of Europe. The conversation soon became an in-depth discussion about the ad-
vantages and disadvantages of communism in modern China. I didn't have the knowledge
or mental willingness to take part, so slunk off to bed and left them to it.
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