AtDtDA23: Mixed Feelings about History

[Monte Davis]

Dave Monroe quotes:

> > "Among the many superstitions inside this mountain
> > was a belief that the tunnel was 'neutral ground,' exempt
> > not only from political 
> > jurisdictions but from Time itself.

I've mentioned before the influence of trains, their timing, and Swiss
patents for same in shaping Einstein's thought. His million-times-quoted
_gedanken_ (thought) experiment of timing light's passage with one clock on
a train, one off it, is the simplest intuituive representation of why motion
*must* affect time and distance. There's more than Kute verbal
Korrespondence in the choice of a Swiss railroad tunnel, aka a Wurm-hole, as
a place without time.

Think about it also as a "time out" for Reef Traverse: what was he doing
last time we saw him before the Simplon, and what will he be doing after?

And what train traffic after August 1914 -- the kind of traffic that
international socialism and labor movements declare against now, but will
hop aboard then -- will be accelerated by all the tunnels the European
powers are so busily digging?