Without looking, can you guess…

[SkyBubble]

There will be time, there will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet;
There will be time to murder and create,
And time for all the works and days of hands
That lift and drop a question on your plate;
Time for you and time for me,
And time yet for a hundred indecisions,
And for a hundred visions and revisions,
Before the taking of a toast and tea.

Eliot

 

[caleb35]

Duke Ellington seemed to like it.

Damn, now you got me thinking of the Duke. Here's some inspirational music for next time you're writing a scene where a character with swagger enters.

 

[lovecraft68]

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And those gigantic waves on that planet would be the sweeps

 

[gunhilltrain]

Back when I lived in NYC, I'd see them the most on the E, especially during winter. Probably because it stays underground the whole ride through.


The A gets all the accolades but the F was actually my favorite because it terminates in Coney Island and the views as you're going through the alphabet stops and approaching the terminal are pretty darn cool.

The point of this is to sleep. Cold air coming through the doors is an issue. Views are not important if you are doing the same trip over and over. Some people prefer a seat in a station because there is no rolling motion. And the cops seem more aggressive about it this year.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Duke Ellington seemed to like it.

Well, it is a train. Union Pacific I think. Fastest why to get to Cheyenne, WY.

 

[Five_Inch_Heels]

" "Take the 'A' Train" was composed in 1939, after Ellington offered Strayhorn a job in his organization and gave him money to travel from Pittsburgh to New York City. Ellington wrote directions for Strayhorn to get to his house by subway. The directions began with the words "Take the A Train", referring to the then-new A subway service that runs through New York City, which at that time ran from eastern Brooklyn, on the Fulton Street Line opened in 1936, up into Harlem and northern Manhattan, using the Eighth Avenue Line in Manhattan opened in 1932."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_the_"A"_Train

 

[gunhilltrain]

He might've identified with the eternal Footman holding the coat.

Or with this by Emily Dickinson. Did Lecter fear death himself?

Because I could not stop for Death—
He kindly stopped for me—
The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
And Immortality.

We slowly drove—He knew no haste
And I had put away
My labor and my leisure too,
For His Civility—

 

[eboni664]

…what the very first post in this forum was about, all the way back in October 1999?

I just had a look at page 1503 of this forum and was amused to see that there is a thread started by someone asking how long it takes for a submission to appear and another on how to deal with a story where the characters are teenagers but not under age. One wonders whether we really live in time.

Anyway, very first post? Not what I was expecting.

[it’s possible that threads disappear off the back of this forum? Certainly, the posts currently on the last page - dating from late 1999 - don’t have the feel of being the very first posts in the forum.]

Probably "Hey, I was banned in chat. For no reason! Fix it immediately or I'm gonna sue you cocksuckers!"