“Let these men sing out their songs, they've been walking all day long, all their fortune's spent and gone... silver dollar in the subway station; quarters for the papers for the jobs.” JobsPovertyLabourQuartersJoblessWorking ClassPapersJoblessnessCocaineLabour PartyRoman PayneJob SeekingWorking HardJob HuntingSubwaysSubway StationsWorking Class TroublesWorking SongLabor SongLabour SongSilver DollarSilver DollardsWant AdsWorkers SongWorking Class Blues Author:Roman Payne
“The experience of riding in a subway or elevator calls to mind Bertrand Russell's remark that much of modern anxiety stems from the time we spend in unnatural proximity to strangers without the preliminary sniffing that is instinctive in animals, including us.” DesignAnxietyTransportationElevatorsPublic TransportationSubways Book:By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons Source: By Design: Why There Are No Locks on the Bathroom Doors in the Hotel Louis XIV and Other Object Lessons
“Sometimes, down in the subway, a train Maxine's riding on will slowly be overtaken by a local or an express on the other track, and in the darkness of the tunnel, as the windows of the other train move slowly past, the lighted panels appear one by one, like a series of fortune-telling cards being deal and slid in front of her. The Scholar, The Unhoused, The Warrior Thief, The Haunted Woman... After a while Maxine has come to understand that the faces framed in these panels are precisely those out of all the city millions she must in the hour be paying most attention to, in particular those whose eyes actually meet her own - they are the day's messengers from whatever the Beyond has for a Third World, where the days are assembled one by one under non-union conditions. Each messenger carrying the props required for their character, shopping bags, books, musical instruments, arrived here out of darkness, bound again into darkness, with only a minute to deliver the intelligence Maxine needs. At some point naturally she begins to wonder if she might not be performing the same role for some face looking back out another window at her.” MysticismNycSubways Author:Thomas Pynchon
“Tramway is more close to human soul than the subway because it touches to the passengers’ souls with a sweet sunshine!” Mehmet Murat Ildan QuotesSubwayUndergroundTramsTramSubwaysTramwayTramways Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan
“Meteorites are not just in the sky; get down on the subway of a city, and you will find people who do not know what they are doing, scattering around in space just like meteorites!” Mehmet Murat Ildan QuotesSubwayMetroUndergroundMeteoritesSubways Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan