Everything is better in the quiet car.
In the quiet car, everyone is calm.
~ Jenny Offill, Weather: A Novel (Knopf, February 11, 2020)
Photo: Matthew Jones
I can't sleep…
Everything is better in the quiet car.
In the quiet car, everyone is calm.
~ Jenny Offill, Weather: A Novel (Knopf, February 11, 2020)
Photo: Matthew Jones
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Quiet cars can be good…. Under the right circumstances, however, a loud car can be an awful lot of fun, too… 😉
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Flash back to your rowdy high school days Lori?!?!
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Laughing…no, thinking of my more recent years (and focused more on exterior sounds than interior ones.) The hubby has a thing for Italian exotics. Vroom!
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We were nearly run over by the MAYOR of our French place because he was driving an E-car….. it wasn’t that much fun!
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Ha!
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Reblogged this on It Is What It Is and commented:
Yes … tell me about it!! … “In the quiet car, everyone is calm.”
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the car conjured up via the photo and Jenny Offillis feels better than anything I’m experiencing right now…
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Awwww, sorry to hear that Valerie. Here’s to some gentle winds at your back.
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Sunday morning here
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Happy Sunday!
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Hmm…you speak of the “quiet car” on the commuter train…Jenny Offill, is on staff at Brooklyn College, perhaps she is eluding to the commuter train? /// and our car wasn’t safe today…we used one that hasn’t been used for about 2 weeks…it needed some gas and there is a little natural foods store 2 blocks down…I wanted to shop there…I keep saying is that our car that smells hot? We stopped at a forest park for a short walk though first I said the car smells hot, it is our car…he lifts the hood and on the manifold some critter had built a nest… the nest was starting to smolder!!! The car certainly wouldn’t have been quiet if it caught fire and blew up! The fun part of the walk was that I glad to take a photo for a mom and her daughter and then witnessed 2 early 30’s couples the women were sisters and as one sister opened a gift it was a little angel white oneies that had “Auntie” across the front the sisters were hugging up and down and the husbands were smiling he whispered to me and I congratulate him…we also saw some early flowering shrubs, snow drops, edwardian, etc..
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I didn’t know she was on staff at Brooklyn college. Somehow missed that.
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hugging and jumping up and down
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No you didn’t miss being on staff at Brooklyn College…I noticed she was born in Massachusetts and I think lived in Canada for part of her formative years…She was on staff at Vassar recently…. I did some sleuthing figuring she liked the East Coast -thus the “quiet car” and noticed she is currently on staff at Brooklyn College…this is her 2020 book tour: https://jennyoffill.com/ perhaps some of your readers will be able to go to one of her book signings? Kindly, Christie
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Got it! Thanks.
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