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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
I don't feel much for trains in person...er, in machine?...but I love books and movies set on trains. Somehow it adds to the dramatic tension. Like the characters are taking both a physical journey and a mental/spiritual/emotional one.
I'm not going to bed tonight - our flight home leaves before six and I figure it will take several hours to get junior cat into his carrier. Maybe I'll watch "Murder on the Orient Express."
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Mostly I like how trains sound. I live near a rail line, it's oddly soothing...
I suppose this is what you'll spend the night at:
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'...
At poor peace I sing
To you strangers (though song
Is a burning and crested act,
The fire of birds in
The world's turning wood,
For my sawn, splay sounds,)
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Dylan Thomas, Author's Prologue
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