18 ways to hate your neighbor

Michael Pollak mpollak at panix.com
Sat Nov 2 10:19:20 PST 2002


On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Chris Doss wrote:


> I love Moscow . . . Germany is the ne plus ultra of boring.

To be fair, if you're comparing boringness, you can't compare Moscow to Tuebingen. You have to compare Moscow with Berlin or Munich, and Tuebingen with a Russian provincial town. There's always a huge within-country gulf between cultural capitals and their backwaters.

Michael the New Yorker



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