Good grief! Do Londoners seriously think you can't buy a packet of crisps at 4am outside the capital? I could get one three miles from my house, any time of the day or night. Except on a Sunday, I could travel four miles and shop in Tesco.
And I live in a village, for crying out loud. In Northampton, finding things would be even easier.
(But why did you pick Northampton rather than Norwich?)
Londoners are secretly amazed that people oustside London have electricity. The idea that there might be culture and nice shops makes their brains cease to work. I speak as a half-cockney.
It *is* in London — change at King's Cross for the WAGN line (I think it's a bit like the DLR), and, a while later, you're there. I guess that makes it in Zone 1, too; Oxford I get to via Shepherd's Bush, which would make it Zone 2.
Edinburgh is sufficiently twisty and non-Euclidean that it wouldn't surprise me if someone discovered that Ulan Bator was in fact hidden in a passageway just off the Royal Mile.
No, because libraries aren't involved, unless the library density in each city is sufficienly high to warp nearby space as well, which I guess isn't unfeasible.
If I construct a library of books written in mirror-writing, will I open up a portal into R-space instead?
Well, given 'London Stansted' and 'London Luton', Cambridge definitely isn't far off being in London. In fact, if one uses the 'Glasgow Prestwick' scheme of city-limits classification then Cambridge is practically in zone 1.
This may just have been a Labour government trying to scare people in John Major's old constituency, but for a while they appeared to be contemplating turning the old RAF Alconbury airbase (20 miles NW of Cambridge) into London Alconbury.
At that distance, they might as well call it Very East Midlands Airport, or Wolverhampton International, or…
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Date: 2004-03-18 05:02 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2004-03-18 05:09 am (UTC)And I live in a village, for crying out loud. In Northampton, finding things would be even easier.
(But why did you pick Northampton rather than Norwich?)
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Date: 2004-03-18 08:19 am (UTC)(1) Cambridge is in Zone 1.
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Date: 2004-03-18 08:28 am (UTC)(2) Edinburgh is got to via King's Cross
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The strange case of Dr. Edinburgh and Mr. London
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Date: 2004-03-18 08:51 am (UTC)If I construct a library of books written in mirror-writing, will I open up a portal into R-space instead?
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Date: 2004-03-18 10:24 am (UTC)At that distance, they might as well call it Very East Midlands Airport, or Wolverhampton International, or…