At once my ears were drowned [*-1] by a flow of what I took [*T*-2] to be Spanish , but -- the driver 's white teeth flashing at me , the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair , beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English [0] I was half hearing [*T*-3] ; ; I would n't have known the difference .
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