[lbo-talk] climate & chaos

andie nachgeborenen andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com
Thu Aug 9 15:38:22 PDT 2007


The Moscow subway is amazing.

Brecht has a poem,

"The Moscow Workers Take Possession of the Great Metro..."

Here is an excerpt.

"...This wonder of construction was witnessing

What none of its predecessors in the cities of many centuries

Had witnessed: the builders in the role of proprietors.

Where would it ever have happened that the fruits of labour

Fell to those who had laboured? Where in all time

Were the people who had put up a building

Not always turned out of it?"

Alas, no more. And I am stuck back on the Chicago El, you want antiquated and slow.

--- Chris Doss <lookoverhere1 at yahoo.com> wrote:


>
> --- andie nachgeborenen
> <andie_nachgeborenen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> thithering on the Paris and Rome Metros,
> > where you never have to wait more than 4 minutes
> for
> > a
>
> Ha. The French and Italians use archaic systems that
> might as well be using horse-drawn buggies and
> rickshaws. Average time between trains in the Metro
> immeno V.I. Lenina is 90 seconds at rush hour, 2
> minutes at midnight.
>
> (Two years ago Moscow had its coldest winter in
> decades. Last year it had its warmest since records
> have started being kept. This is weird.)
>
>
>
>
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