- Sep 2015
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trying to summon trains which could not be summoned
no more metrocards :(
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Ever since her birth she had been surrounded by the steady hum
just like now there is always something making noise. whether it's cars, air conditioning or even animals- there is never complete silence.
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He kissed her.
this is probably the only time the kissed-maybe even touched
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air- ship
this reminds me of Zepllins
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so did recapture the meaning of “Near” and “Far”. “Near” is a place to which I can get quickly on my feet, not a place to which the train or the air-ship will take me quickly. “Far” is a place to which I cannot get quickly on my feet;
our understanding of near is by way way of car or plane and not by walking anymore
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"I found out a way of my own." The phrase conveyed no meaning to her, and he had to repeat it.
anything that is against the machine is unthinkable to her
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tubular railway
sounds like a bullet train
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"Oh, I remember Asia. The Mongols came from it."
homage to Genghis Khan and Kublai Khan. They were innovators of their time. they created stirrups and gunpowder among other things
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"And that white stuff in the cracks? - what is it?" "I have forgotten its name."
snow
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Racing aeroplanes had been built for the purpose, capable of enormous speed,
very similar fighter jets
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palpitating
word used mostly druing the writing of the pecie and scarcely ued now [https://www.google.com/search?q=palpitating&oq=palpitating&aqs=chrome..69i57j0l5.974j0j9&sourceid=chrome&es_sm=119&ie=UTF-8]
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The three stars in the middle are like the belts that men wore once, and the three stars hanging are like a sword."
is this referring to Orion's belt?
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