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SERPENT IN THE GARDEN

7/21/2011

 
    If I could turn back the clock, I'd bring back all the railroads. As a 10-year old, I went alone on the Orange Blossom Special, New York City to Miami, put on by my mom, enthralled by passing scenery, skipping into the dining car, two nights in a snug berth, met by my dad.  In World War 2, I flew a B-17 Flying Fortress and loved it, but as a no-class passenger, air travel is corporal punishment. So I took trains to New Haven, Boston, Washington, DC, and Raleigh, NC,  savoring the leg room, walking the aisles, club car, observation car, diner.
    And now dozens of smaller American cities are losing air service entirely. Busses will move in, but if there's anything worse than sitting in an airplane, it's sitting in a bus. China, Japan, France, England, even India are pushing high-speed rail while President Obama is catching heat for his modest proposal to spend federal dollars on a few high-speed rail corridors offering Americans comfortable low-cost travel while putting thousands back to work.
    Like the Tea Party Poopers, I too wish I could turn back the clock. Only they imagine that with less government and lower taxes, the world would automatically revert to a latter-day Garden of Eden. They forget that God put a Serpent in the Garden, and he's still there, coiled up and waiting. Scrapping oversight while unleashing mendacity will turn the whole nation into a nest of vipers, if it isn't already.


rs
7/27/2011 01:43:09 am

thomas wolf loved trains-he nearly died in one. tolstoy died in a train station...Waiting i suppose?

possibly anticipating the smooth wheeling,cranking,and screeching costume dramas at every station?...its foreverness !...(so conducive to thinking and imagining) ...perfect artist travel.

trains also had sin like in a john ohara novel. small faded hotels that breathed life's anticipations- secret fruit.. boys food.

at its best (1885-1965) all boys were fed by the train-life. maybe some girls too?-like, would-be hoofers and the brave--they also loved its multitudes and open-ended possibility, in a secretive america...its glorious picture windows implicating delicious pictures of the unorthodox,unexplored .
it was a larger world on a train. it stretched somehow-and rolled over a flatter and more local world.

also; time dies on a train. not like a plane: where we catch a movie and wait... and clouds are only interesting in fields on our backs... but trains!?...they're round and have a song we can dance to.

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    Being 90 years in this world,  with great kids,  great grandkids, great wives (two, one at a time) and great memories, I wonder why some people seem to have stopped loving the U.S.A.? I will wonder in print right here. If you wonder too, or can provide some answers, please comment.
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