Life as a train trip
There’s a lovely line on life as a train journey in a new book about happiness by the Irish writer Michael Foley. According to a review in The Observer yesterday, that journey isn’t aboard “a gleaming Orient Express… into exotic glamour, adventure and excitement”. Instead, we travel on “a rusty old English branch line, puffing slowly round the drearily familiar, with lengthy stops at Hankering, Frittering, Fretting, Bickering, North, South, East and West Dithering”.
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