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The sudden stop between two stations was more original this time, the power also went out. You would think that such a modernized country with the oldest underground railway system in the world would have figured out some kind of logical process by now. I guess not. Here’s my theory: Every morning, the operator uses coin tosses to decide the order of departure of the trains; he then sits back with a bag of popcorn canvassing a huge electronic map with hundreds of moving blinking lights, and waits attentively… One hand on a big red button labeled “SHUTDOWN”. | ||
-Yannick |
You ought to read Neil Gaiman’s “Neverwhere.”
It explains everything. You see, the tube is not actually a metropolitan transit system. It is a paralel universe in which praeternatural intelligences from ages beyond human memory still dwell, quietly ruminating their plans for overthrowing the rule of Reason.
Hmmm… It all makes perfect sense now…
The irony of this postcard is that I’m actually in England right now, and will be experiencing this first-hand in the next couple of weeks. Of all the places you’ve been, while I’m in England I get a postcard from there. haha. Made me laugh.
Question: Don’t you hate metropolitain areas? Wouldn’t you rather danger and adventure in some wild jungle somewhere? Seems like London England is a little black sheep on the list of places you’ve been…
haha je savais que tu parlais de londres ca arrete pas de repeter MIND THE GAP! cest malade cette ville la et jadore ta theorie! haha 🙂
Rachel, you’re absolutely right: I do. And I’m actually leaving for the Mongolian-Siberian border in less than 24 hours. Now, that is as far as you can get from a metropolitan area…See you all in 2 months! (hopefully)