TYPE:
Traveling salesman, always just a little lonely and overjoyed at a chance to talk or make any human contact whatever.
SUBJECT:
Inexperienced traveller in a state of high excitement and anticipation. At a rare stage of impressionability.
APPARATUS:
1 Pullman car
REMARKS:
This method is extremely specialized, suited only to travelers. On terra firma both protagonists are different people entirely, who would be scandalized at actions which seem perfectly plausible on the train.
I’D HAVE SAID YOU WERE FROM NEW YORK
There’s really nothing else to do on train journeys. Reading on the train gives you a headache; after three hours scenery should never have been invented. And as for that green plush.... If you have an acquaintance on the train and talk yourself out with him you will never want to see him again.... Bridge? But that is our story.