Certainly, despite its poetically lauded "dreaming spires", Oxford - with its industrial heritage of automotive production, including Morris and Mini cars - feels more urban.
While it is commonplace in baseball for fans and commentators to embellish or to rhapsodize poetically about the feats of ball players, Albert Pujols has become a mythical character.
Film historian Dr Matthew Sweet told BBC News Online the history of the zombie film goes back as far as the 1930s, with the undead treated more "poetically" to comment on capitalism.