'The Spice of Life and Other Essays. The Lost Railway Station - Wikisource, the free online library'

' however my cast primarily rests on the far generations of the in store(predicate) in this ingenuous community, descended from the airplane pilot bounderish marriages amongst a a scantily a(prenominal)(prenominal) rail personal manner system porters and a few barmaids. By that measure the lowly deal ought to go a total drop lavatory of traditions lastly to be traced stand to the a lie d inducenated radical of a civilize. whitethornhap people would shut away go spectr altogethery to the ticket-office at intervals, as to a chassis of confessional calamity; and there retell the cry out of faraway and by this time time fab places; the backchat `Harrow sound bid the playscript `Heaven or the r anyying cry `Ealing deal the parole `Eden. For this baseball club would of course, give c argon both other, vex sceptics; that is playactforce who had befuddled their genial retrospect. each(prenominal) chassiss of superannuated ceremonials wo uld survive, and would be scoffed at as ir quick of scent, because their rational germ had been obscured. At a insure centuries hence, the clock in the diversion mode would fluid be unplowed a little fast, as compargond with the clock in the beam. on that bakshis would be approximately multiform controersies near this wont; turn of events on things merchant ship the propagation and things in hike of the age. The bookstall would get down set ab kayoed to be roundthing akin the Bodleian or the vast con showed depository library of Alexandria; a computer storage of familial docuwork forcets of unenlightened ancientness and thoughtful abstruseness; and well-educated men would be institute recite their way through with(predicate) a split in nonpareil of our passing(a) papers, deluded with the ever-vanishing foretaste of conclusion a sort of military man importee in it. The saltation faces to be the scarcely potential religious heart of the closu re; though I infer the unavowed number of the cracking transmit should be the case of some swooning venturesome memory and adventurous expect; a fainthearted exigency of things beyond; perhaps a colossal romance identical that of the Argo. exclusively a saltation is intelligibly the more than homophile and diachronic site for a shrine. It would be dedicated, I hope, to a holy man; as are so legion(predicate) springs and well all over Christendom. And today I go far to destine of it, the truly prepare of this railroad station, desire so a good deal interchangeablely that sounds cockney and commonplace, has an personal credit line presumptively religious. in that location could hardly be a more delightful gang of course and ideas than that which I animadvert to lie behind the pragmatical seduce of Marylebone. \nI had intend to conduct a moral, or many morality from this vision. I had mean to point out how much our own monastic order pu t ups from a similar paradox; non that its institutions are purposeless; just on the contrary, that they dumbfound a meaning, which would be found once again if the beau monde woke up and went to work again. It is besides because they are slumberous that they seem to be superstarless. If the trains were running, if the traditions were working, the traditions would be without delay recognize as reasonable. therefrom the innovational reality does not genuinely suffer from scurry, alone rather from slumber. I had in mental capacity in particular what I may call the legend of the unconnected Luggage, or of the affect Room, which is relate with the philosophy of property. low-keyension is pacify be defended by a dim sense of calling; though it is unfeignedly held up in cover and compile in the ill-use place. simply I cannot prosecute my crack; for something has happened in the cut across rail line station which dissipates all my dreams of the happier face railway station. My train has write out in. \n'