On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 08:56:09AM -0700, Offramp wrote:
In 1917 the British chess player Aleister Crowley published a novel. I
have just started reading it.
Part of the opening chapter (it is all online, by the way) reads:

"...Great Central is a "notion" imported, name and all, from Broadway,
by an enterprising kind of railway Barnum, named Yerkes; nobody ever
goes there, except to golf at Sandy Lodge. If there are any other
terminals in London, I forget them; clear proof of their
insignificance...."

Did you spot it?!
There used to be a Grand Central station in London. What is it now?

It says "Great Central", not "Grand Central". The Great Central Railway
was one of the pre-grouping ancestors of the LNER, running into
Marylebone.

--
David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig

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