Saturday, October 18, 2008
The Capital of the Human Race
Henry James on London in 1888: 'It is a real stroke of luck for a particular country that the capital of the human race happens to be British.' What, now, is the capital of the human race?
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
Los Angeles, although Shanghai is a good bet for the future.
ReplyDeleteJust been to my local Tesco in Sheffield, full of young Chinese type people. Seems popular.
ReplyDeleteIt's still London. It bloody is.
ReplyDeleteCapital, surely. Mammon is very much the god of this poxy world.
ReplyDeleteThe internet. Who needs real cities any more?
ReplyDeleteDuh! It's Wasilla, silly!
ReplyDeleteMeet the latest inductee into the Hypocrites Hall of Infamy
'T' or 'H'. Depends if you count the 'the'.
ReplyDeleteMoscow. Mark my words.
ReplyDeleteCarshalton of course.
ReplyDeleteOuagadougou. Just because it has a really cool name that is hard to spell.
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