Good to see you are back in the blogosphere or whatever it's called. Julian Cope makes a similar observation in the opening of his book Japrocksampler. He typified the English attitude with the illustration of the front page of the Times from a period in 1911 which saw heavy Fog smother the Channel "Fog Hides Channel - Continent Cut Off!"
He reckons it's because the British and the Japanese are both island nations - sea kingdoms.
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on 2008-02-25 10:04 pm (UTC)Good to see you are back in the blogosphere or whatever it's called. Julian Cope makes a similar observation in the opening of his book Japrocksampler. He typified the English attitude with the illustration of the front page of the Times from a period in 1911 which saw heavy Fog smother the Channel "Fog Hides Channel - Continent Cut Off!"
He reckons it's because the British and the Japanese are both island nations - sea kingdoms.