/lit/ - Literature

>>22316198
>things everyone already knows
thanks i guess

>>20618339
I can believe this. Do you have the source? Even half remembered? I'll hunt it down and post it if you don't feel like it.

>>20616724
I think this is most likely, unless the above points me to the letter. Calling it theater right after, and taking in later contexts, seems to be correct. So. Next question for you: what is the 3rd paragraph?

>Inside the carriage, which is built on several levels, he sits in velveteen darkness, with nothing to smoke, feeling metal nearer and farther rub and connect, steam escaping in puffs, a vibration in the carriage’s frame, a poising, an uneasiness, all the others pressed in around, feeble ones, second sheep, all out of luck and time: drunks, old veterans still in shock from ordnance 20 years obsolete, hustlers in city clothes, derelicts, exhausted women with more children than it seems could belong to anyone, stacked about among the rest of the things to be carried out to salvation. Only the nearer faces are visible at all, and at that only as half-silvered images in a view finder, green-stained VIP faces remembered behind bulletproof windows speeding through the city. . .

Specifically: Only the nearer faces are visible at all, and at that only as half-silvered images in a view finder, green-stained VIP faces remembered behind bulletproof windows speeding through the city...