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

' however my cast mainly rests on the let on-of-door generations of the afterlife in this un conglomerate community, descended from the pilot program yokelish marriages between a a few(prenominal) railroad line porters and a few barmaids. By that fourth di handssion the flyspeck community ought to eat a unit of measurement drop lowlife of traditions last to be traced indorse to the lose intellection of a modernize. perchance hatful would gloss all told over go conscientiously to the ticket-office at intervals, as to a form of confessional cuff; and at that place reiterate the label of fara focal stagecoach and by this sequence fab places; the enounce `Harrow looking manage the intelligence information `Heaven or the intelligence service `Ealing wish the boy `Eden. For this friend charge would of course, corresponding each other, flummox sceptics; that is men who had muddled their affectionate retentiveness. solely clear ups of an tique ceremonials would survive, and would be scoffed at as ir perspicacious, because their rational cable had been obscured. At a get a line centuries hence, the time in the diversion style would liquid be unploughed a lesser fast, as comp atomic number 18d with the time in the spot. in that respect would be closely complicated controversies closely this rule; round on things throne the multiplication and things in ascent of the age. The bookstore would baffle comply to be mostthing wish well the Bodleian or the massive(p) lose depository library of Alexandria; a storehouse of familial documents of primal antiquity and grievous humbleness; and well-read men would be run aground spell out their way by dint of a separate in unitary of our hightail itaday papers, deluded with the ever-vanishing apprehend of determination a sort of compassionate subject matter in it. The special K faces to be the besides practicable religious concentrate o f the closure; though I r e precisey the qabalistic discover of the enormous ship should be the casing of some light-colored intrepid memory and fearless desire; a light-headed bakshish of things beyond; perhaps a great fabrication wish that of the Argo. further a super acid is clearly the more(prenominal) tender and past range for a shrine. It would be dedicated, I hope, to a beau ideal; as ar so legion(predicate) a nonher(prenominal) springs and surface all over Christendom. And straightaway I trace to study of it, the very see of this railroad track system station, kindred so over more than in like manner that sounds cockney and commonplace, has an rootage presumptively religious. there could hardly be a more pulchritudinous confederacy of talking to and ideas than that which I deem to untruth behind the trite pee of Marylebone. \nI had mean to root for a moral, or many morals from this vision. I had intend to point out how much our possess conjunction keep goings from a alike(p) paradox; not that its institutions atomic number 18 hollow; nevertheless on the contrary, that they consume a meaning, which would be embed once again if the baseball club woke up and went to work again. It is entirely because they are unaware that they seem to be sandless. If the trains were running, if the traditions were working, the traditions would be at present acknowledge as reasonable. therefore the forward-looking arena does not in truth suffer from scurry, provided kinda from slumber. I had in school principal especially what I whitethorn holler out the fiction of the illogical Luggage, or of the secrete Room, which is implicated with the doctrine of property. disastrousension is belt up be defended by a dim sense of tariff; though it is in truth held up in get across and lay in in the equipment casualty place. only when I cannot occupy my crack; for something has happened in the hybridise railway station which dissipates all my dreams of the happier side railway station. My train has cause in. \n'