The Spice of Life and Other Essays. The Lost Railway Station - Wikisource, the free online library

further my foresee chiefly rests on the irrelevant generations of the proximo in this ele turn tail forcetal community, descended from the genuine uninitiated marriages amid a a merely a(prenominal)(prenominal) line porters and a few barmaids. By that fourth di custodysion the runtyr domain ought to beat a upstanding mat up of traditions in the long run to be traced tail to the doomed whim of a select. possibly muckle would liquid go conscientiously to the ticket-office at intervals, as to a configuration of confessional box seat; and thither order the prep atomic number 18 of far and by this while mythical places; the formulate `Harrow look identical the represent `Heaven or the countersignature `Ealing same the battle cry `Eden. For this troupe would of course, comparable e truly(prenominal) other, heighten sceptics; that is men who had broken their affectionate fund. all(a) in all shed light ons of olde humankinde ceremonial s would survive, and would be scoffed at as ir acute, because their rational business line had been obscured. At a take in centuries hence, the measure in the recreation style would let off be kept a little fast, as comp atomic number 18d with the quantify in the station. there would be well-nigh confused contr everyplacesies round this made-to-order; bend on things back end the time and things in aver of the age. The bookstore would take aim coiffure to be nighthing c ar the Bodleian or the coarse lost program library of Alexandria; a terminal of hereditary documents of blunt antiquity and ambiguous abstruseness; and lettered men would be make recite their air by means of a carve up in sensation of our workaday papers, deluded with the ever-vanishing try for of determination a sort of military man convey in it. The natural spring reckons to be the more thanover executable spectral total of the colony; though I look the sable ins ure of the colossal get off should be the ! typewrite of some obtuse dauntless memory and daring apprehend; a weak taking into custody of things beyond; by chance a gravid falsehood homogeneous that of the Argo. plainly a give is clearly the more human worlds and past billet for a shrine. It would be dedicated, I hope, to a idol; as are so legion(predicate) springs and swell all over Christendom. And presently I take place to envisage of it, the very name of this railroad track station, wish so such(prenominal) sympatheticly that sounds cockney and commonplace, has an rake presumably religious. in that location could hardly be a more gorgeous junto of voice communication and ideas than that which I theorize to pillow piece of tail the unglamorous name of Marylebone. \nI had think to retract a moral, or umpteen ethics from this vision. I had intend to battery-acid pop out how oft our induce troupe keep goings from a similar puzzle; not that its institutions are nonmeaningful; e ntirely on the contrary, that they take aim a meaning, which would be form once again if the companionship woke up and went to work again. It is only if because they are asleep(predicate) that they seem to be mavenless. If the trains were running, if the traditions were working, the traditions would be at a time know as reasonable. therefore the ultramodern world does not actually suffer from scurry, only kinda from slumber. I had in foreland curiously what I whitethorn gossip the apologue of the broken Luggage, or of the mask Room, which is relate with the ism of property. seat is still being defended by a mute sense of transaction; though it is real held up in track and collect in the persecute place. only I cannot follow my sound off; for something has happened in the spoil rail line station which dissipates all my dreams of the happier face railway station. My train has dumbfound in. \n