Lawrence Wright on the pleasure of reading on trains

“I don’t know why it is so much more pleasurable to read a book on a train coach than in an armchair at home. There must be a parallel between one’s life and one’s book, each of them pleasingly held in suspense as they roll through possibilities. The be in that parenthetical state between Point A and Point B, and Chapter One and The End, is to be in a state of hammocky contentment, and to arrive at the destinations simultaneously is, for me, a nearly orgasmic form of melancholy.”
–Lawrence Wright, In the New World (1988)

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