<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title></title> </head> <body> "Tumid apathy" -- that's pretty good. No all subways are created equal though; London's is dim indeed.   But the Paris subway was always an upper; the Prague subway is very fun; and the Moscow subway looks like a blast. I don't know what the atmosphere is though...Chris can enlighten us. Joanna Carrol Cox wrote: <blockquote type="cite" cite="mid42D69B47.A93A0A89@ilstu.edu"> <pre wrap="">T. S. Eliot on the London Subway. Here is a place of disaffection Time before and time after In a dim light: neither daylight Investing form with lucid stillness Turning shadow into transient beauty With slow rotation suggesting permanence Nor darkness to purify the soul Emptying the sensual with deprivation Cleansing affection from the temporal. Neither plenitude nor vacancy. Only a flicker Over the strained time-ridden faces Distracted from distraction by distraction Filled with fancies and empty of meaning Tumid apathy with no concentration </pre> </blockquote> </body> </html>