My, Joanna! - it sounds like the train to Werribee -
I've often thought that a major problem with politicians is that they don't
use public transport. They would understand society better if they did.
Best
A
On 27/10/05 9:24 AM, "Joanna Boulter" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Sorry, a bit discombobulated at the moment. Went up to Newcastle this
> evening to hear Jane Hirshfield read, which was a marvellous experience. On
> the way back two different sets of drunks, one violent and the other merely
> very loud, had to be taken off the train by police at two different
> stations. The loudest confided, fortissimo, that he was a Geordie (i.e. from
> Tyneside) Irishman who lived in the Village in New York, where he was a
> policeman who had killed ten men, and if the man he decided to sit next to
> didn't confess he would burn him. The guard asked me if I was all right
> (they were in the seat behind me), and when I said I thought so, he
> disappeared for the next half-hour. Talk about an evening of contrasts!
Alison Croggon
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