Them Again

[Mr Craig Clark]

Richard Romeo Rote:

 > Personal note:  I was 
 > taking Amtrak cross country a few years back and it was way past 
 > midnight, all this machinery including our rumbling train in Western PA 
 > somewheres, just going thru the motions, and I couldn't sleep and I 
 > thought despite all the movement and subtle hudden sounds, there wasn't 
 > anyone around controlling it, no one was about, it was just moving on for 
 > some purpose, just not known to the night nor to any of its waking 
 > dreamers like myself --I think of Them like that.  

I don't have _GR_ to hand, but there's that stunning song about 
trains, I think it's a few pages into Section 3: there's a line 'bout
"Trains have never needed riders...
Trains belong to bitter night"
or something.

 
Craig Clark

"Living inside the system is like driving across
the countryside in a bus driven by a maniac bent
on suicide."
   - Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"