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Notes on a train metaphor for my Website

"Amazing how a handsome man looks elegant in whatever he happens
to put on."
     Albert the Aligator, in Walt Kelly's Pogo

Suggestions for improving the appearance of this Website (either
in HTML or as alternative pages) may be sent to teh above address.

Until someone suggests a better idea, a train metaphor might be
ok.  With a dash of 'Murder on the Orient Express' for plot,
maybe.
Mr. Mustard and all that.  Clues in Source only.  Maybe false-cap
filenames.
As for a plot, we shall have to do with mostly CLUE, with a dash
of Murder on the Orient Express; unless someone can find a better
train story.

Excuse me Mr. Maxwell, did you possibly lose a hammer?

QV:  A last episode of Star Trek -- beginning with the Jean-Luc
Picard protagonist reciting Prospero's final speech from The
Tempest; and going on to train metaphors.

"This train is bound for glory -- this train."
   Woodie Guthrie

Back, back, wherever you are:  this caravan is not of despair.  
Although you have [may have] broken your vows -- ["perhaps"--
Zuleika, Santa Fe ] a thousand times -- said to be by Rumi (in
translation)  

"Get back -- get back -- get back to where you once belonged."
(Beattles)
 
"Get back -- Honky cat:  livin' in the city ain't where it's at."

"Turn turn again --- return again -- return to the lands of your
soul ...." (R. Shlomo Carlebach).


"Oh, the Rock Island Line is a might good road -- Rock Island Line
is the road to ride -- Rock Island Line is a mighty good road --
but if you want to ride it, got to ride it like you find it; get
your ticket at the station on the Rock Island Line."
    U.S. Afro-American ("Negro") spiritual; recovered by The
Weaver's (Pete Seeger) 1950's; popularized.

'[Intro]:  Imagine that you are in a train station -- Old Penn
Station would be ideal (with Milano's train entrance added); if
you can't get there, Wroclaw may have to do -- having done well
restoring the Town Plaza, they might improve it.

You are waiting for a great train of the Good Old Days -- the
Orient Express still runs through Wroclaw; The Empire State
Limited, ( which still carries a Club Car / Smoker , or did in the
early '70's ) departs Grand Central (really not quite Penn
Station, but maybe they can meld) connecting, almost, in Chicago
with the Super-Chief, with its magnificent Dome cars.  (lst-class
only, but perhaps you can walk in, act as if you belong there --
courteous, but a bit pre-occupied --  over-tip the barman, and
stay all night looking at the stars.)

Do not be bothered by a bit of shape-shifting; your train may
shift was one particular to another, but you may notice that the
invariants (Einstein; or Whitehead's 'eternal objects', from
Plato's arche-types) remain.  Surely Zelazyn has prepared you to
take all that in stride.

    


Outside the train, the scenery runs by, if I learn to write a
simple Frame.  So many fascinating places to explore, if you could
just jump out at one of the stops.   Train tickets allow it.
                                                                 
You do not know if you will ever get there.  Dreams are so
elusive.  But then there it is:


        [ FAT HARRY FONT ]:    "TRACK 2 "


[other necessary remarks: ] 

If you will just acknowlege the formalities:

         Caveats: 

                        "Pass Through":

The train will depart at your convenience:

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 LIBRARY CAR:  (R. Shlomo Part I)

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      Passengers are forbidden to ride between the cars.'
                      But some do, for a smoke.
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CONSERVATORY CAR:  [ Poems ]

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[Center]:   "When the train is in the staion
             we encourage constipation"
                       (USA NYC Schoolgirl song, 1920's)

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Each car a different colour scheme.  In between cars just black-on
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Blythe haiku and Bollingen excerpts between cars

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SHIRUTIM CAR:

ROMAN MARBLE BATHS (First-Class passengers only)

Include:  Tools, etc.

Tools should be here:
Feedback, etc. is in CREW

Caveats are in FORMALITIES:

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