Dec 18, 2018
Railway as temporal indifference (sponsored by Benrus):
“Great, slant beams of moted light fell ponderously athwart the station’s floor, and the calm voice of time hovered along the walls and ceiling of that mighty room, distilled out of the voices and movements of the people who swarmed beneath. It had the murmur of a distant sea....It was elemental, detached, indifferent to the lives of men”
Words: Thomas Wolfe, You Can’t Go Home Again, on the subject of the mighty concourse of the original Pennsylvania Station, NYC
Picture: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division