More novels are translated from languages than ever before, although few are actually read. And in the surest sign of cultural globalization, football, the world's game, has finally reached America, where broadcasts of the greatest collective enterprise humanity has ever known, Liverpool Football Club, got record ratings in 2012. Thanks, Thought Bubble. Hey, one last request. Could you put me in a Liverpool jersey? On the pitch at Anfield? Raising the Premier League trophy?