He closed the book and let his eyes wander across the drab industrial scene passing by the train window.
The train window was so dank with mist anyway that it was hard to see anything at all except the reflection of my own dark figure hunched down under the baggage rack in my black tweed coat and hat.
Many passengers were flung out the window when the speeding train ploughed into a stationary one in Soweto on Thursday evening.
In a separate incident passengers on a Virgin London to Coventry train had to change vehicles after a window fell out of a carriage.
"Darren is able to translate what's going on here to people who have no other connection to Harlem than riding the train to the suburbs and looking out the window, " says ADC President Karen Phillips.
You can be an entrance elf, a water cooler elf, a bridge elf, train elf, maze elf, island elf, magic window elf, usher elf, cash register elf or exit elf.
Soon the window glass becomes cool to touch as the train climbs more than 1, 000 metres into a bare, otherworldly landscape of boulders and snowdrifts, navigating beautiful but treacherous mountain country through high passes and tunnels hewn from solid rock.
The 26-year-old, who arrives for an undisclosed fee, will train with United in December but cannot play until the January transfer window opens.
Feeling suddenly weak in the knees, I sank back on the hard train seat and glanced again at the gloomy landscape lumbering past the window.
To Henry Cao, who was seated beside a window in the last compartment of the second car, the train seemed to float, describing long elegant turns and shuddering now and then with the whump of a train going in the opposite direction.
Sal waves goodbye to the itinerant Dean from a Cadillac window as he heads up West 20th Street to Penn Station and the train that will carry him west.
The first rabbit, running just outside the window, had wide-open eyes, as if the race against the train required a superhuman effort (or, rather, super-leporine, the lawyer thought).
The teenage girl he meets on a train to Nha Trang who can't fathom the beauty Pham sees in the rice fields outside their window.
Then the train began to advance over the pampas, and the lawyer leaned his head against the cold glass of the window and fell asleep.
The festival, temple or slum that you see out of the window, or the oddly great taste of the namkeen (fried snack) bought from a wandering train vendor, is what stays with you.
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