Haunting would be the right word--especially for someone who grew up about 50 feet from railroad tracks that are no longer there; and I think Annie would agree! Thanks to you both for being such exemplary passengers.
Jim,
I don't know where or when you got on my train but I hope you stay on for the duration! Thanks for the good words.
My apologies Vassilis, for the hidden ad in the word j-o-u-r-n-e-y-s in my comment above. I simply typed the word and it somehow turned green and became an ad inviting readers to take a survey. I think I know the origin--I'm working on my daughter's computer this week and my 7-year-old grandson has learned how to download little video games and since then all manner of nonsense pops up. But that the computer can take a simple typed word on a comment on someone's blog and turn it into a link to another site, without the typer's knowledge or consent, is horrifying. If there were a way to remove it, I would. Please feel free to delete the comment, it's really embarrassing and something I would never do, link to an ad somewhere. My apologies again.
Hello again Vassilis, I left your site and visited a few other poets' blogs where the little green words popped up again, in their sites as well. (The word "escape" in someone's poem suddenly became a green link to a travel agency.) Apparently only someone using this particular computer sees green word links. Had I known that, I would never have posted the preceding comment. But that a simple visit to a web site can there everafter implant ads into random words on every other site later visited--is truly scary. They should carry a warning sign: Proceed with caution: Word infection possible.
Wow--little green words leading to links! And to think that not so many years ago, we were terrorized by the thought of little green men asking us to take them to our leader, Dubya!
PS. Incidentally, the little green words never materialized on my computer.
The end of the line, we call it.
ReplyDeleteI can see it in my mind's eye: the metal tracks roughly sawn off and a wooden structure abutting the railway station, end of the line.
This is as haunting as ever.
trains stop
ReplyDeletetracks end
journeys
don't
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In the great switching yard of the world wide web, long may your blog chug along.
ReplyDeleteElisabeth,
ReplyDeleteHaunting would be the right word--especially for someone who grew up about 50 feet from railroad tracks that are no longer there; and I think Annie would agree! Thanks to you both for being such exemplary passengers.
Jim,
I don't know where or when you got on my train but I hope you stay on for the duration! Thanks for the good words.
Jim,
ReplyDeleteThe conductor just informed me that he was going to say you may have got on at Ursprache Station but the words escaped him.
My apologies Vassilis, for the hidden ad in the word j-o-u-r-n-e-y-s in my comment above. I simply typed the word and it somehow turned green and became an ad inviting readers to take a survey. I think I know the origin--I'm working on my daughter's computer this week and my 7-year-old grandson has learned how to download little video games and since then all manner of nonsense pops up. But that the computer can take a simple typed word on a comment on someone's blog and turn it into a link to another site, without the typer's knowledge or consent, is horrifying. If there were a way to remove it, I would. Please feel free to delete the comment, it's really embarrassing and something I would never do, link to an ad somewhere. My apologies again.
ReplyDeleteHello again Vassilis, I left your site and visited a few other poets' blogs where the little green words popped up again, in their sites as well. (The word "escape" in someone's poem suddenly became a green link to a travel agency.) Apparently only someone using this particular computer sees green word links. Had I known that, I would never have posted the preceding comment. But that a simple visit to a web site can there everafter implant ads into random words on every other site later visited--is truly scary. They should carry a warning sign: Proceed with caution: Word infection possible.
ReplyDeleteWow--little green words leading to links! And to think that not so many years ago, we were terrorized by the thought of little green men asking us to take them to our leader, Dubya!
ReplyDeletePS. Incidentally, the little green words never materialized on my computer.