Cyril Radcliffe, a London barrister, was flown to Delhi and given forty days to define precisely the strange political geography of an India flanked by an eastern and a western wing called Pakistan.
As a friendly Italian chap named David whizzed me towards the Grande Corniche that swerves above the strange capitalist geography of Monaco, the number of cars showing "MC" stickers increased.
In four trips across the ocean, he never, for obvious reasons, came upon anything remotely like what he had expected: not only were the people novel and strange; so were the geography, the topography, the flora, and the fauna.
We are all there, collapsing time and geography, stitching together strange new places and our familiar worlds.
"Some students try to tie unrelated experiences, such as working in Topshop or football coaching, to geography in very strange, weird and wonderful ways," says Mackie.
She relates the typewriter and papers in the room (a pile of mss., typed sheet, and envelopes) to geography, describing them as different manifestations of strange topography.
Danny Dorling, professor of human geography at the University of Sheffield We have a strange higher education system for historical reasons, and it will become stranger.
Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling".
"Wide-ranging in their geography and their concern, they tell powerful stories which make the familiar strange and cover an enormous range of history and feeling," he continued.
This explains why the geography is all messed up, why bridges lead to nowhere and why locations bear strange resemblance to areas in previous games.
