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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  1. Los Angeles, although Shanghai is a good bet for the future.

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  2. Just been to my local Tesco in Sheffield, full of young Chinese type people. Seems popular.

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  3. It's still London. It bloody is.

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  4. Capital, surely. Mammon is very much the god of this poxy world.

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  5. The internet. Who needs real cities any more?

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  6. Duh! It's Wasilla, silly!

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  7. 'T' or 'H'. Depends if you count the 'the'.

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  8. Moscow. Mark my words.

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  9. Ouagadougou. Just because it has a really cool name that is hard to spell.

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