The Mittlewerk Express

[PETER A WATTS]

one more thought on trains: 
like the arc of the rocket, the course of a train is fixed and inevitable,
like time moving forward, always proceeding from past to future with no pause
for processing the landscape of the present.
plus its a big metal prick hurtling out into the unknown, modern mans 
attempt at fucking time and distance just like a rocket.

-uwattp00 at mcl.ucsb.edu
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