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Sunday, May 22, 2022

THOREAU'S RUNAWAY TRAIN AND SLEEPERS (WALDEN (1854), (IV))

“We do not ride on the railroad; it rides upon us. Did you ever think what those sleepers are that underlie the railroad?  Each one is a man, an Irishman, or a Yankee man. The rails are laid on them, and they are covered with sand, and the cars run smoothly over them. They are sound sleepers, I assure you. And every few years a new lot is laid down and run over; so that, if some have the pleasure of riding on a rail, others have the misfortune to be ridden upon.” 

— Henry David Thoreau, “Where I lived and What I Lived For,” 

Walden



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