He crossed, making for the station. Although he would not be traveling by train the sense of departure, of its imminence, came heavily about him again as, childishly avoiding the locked points, he picked his path over the narrow-gauge lines. Light from the setting sun glanced off the oiltanks on the grass embankment beyond. The platform slept. The tracks were vacant, the signals up. There was little to suggest any train ever arrived at this station, let alone left it...
(It's better to create than destroy what's unnecessary)
Thursday, September 6, 2007
Under The Volcano - pg. 7
Labels: Malcolm Lowry
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