Thred: On request of frend for general interest, repoasting an old and much-liked BAP thred, on "the classics racket" in USA. In response to Donna Zuckerface stupid (and failed) book on the classics and politics, the following was poasted; which I might turn into a long article:
the "fix" for Penn Station would be forcing the LIRR and NJT to merge into a single S-Bahn style railroad. We'd have to either put up overhead lines here in NY or put 3rd rail into NJ, but once the trains can just speed on through, we'd reap a lot of efficiencies
But a noise is in the mountains, in the mountains, and I know
The voice that shook our palaces—four hundred years ago:
It is he that saith not ‘Kismet’; it is he that knows not Fate;
It is Richard, it is Raymond, it is Godfrey in the gate!