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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 March 2020
– You are stupid
– Yes, I am stupid
– No, I am stupid
– Yes, you are stupid Passepartout
– Stupid to have followed you
– It is my stupid charm
– I didn't even need the stupid money
– You don't have to follow me stupid.
– You’ll tell the boss
– Don't be stupid
– How will you manage without your slave
– I will sit and pine for you
– Who will be your Tweedle-dum to be a Tweedle-dee?
– I will miss you
– I will catch up
– Catching up will be hard for you
– Who are you going to insult each morning?
– Oh I forgot India has run out of people
– Why do you want to get rid of me so much?
– I had enough of your blank stare out of this window, you
are wasting metaphors!
– I will catch them on the way back
– It doesn't count you will see them in reverse
– What's there to see?
– Your Elephant Man, the Magnifique he's been riding on his bicycle
next to the train – there!
She looked.
– Stupid.
– Ouch…that hurt
– That was my left hook, you wait for my right
I could not understand
how she could have had a blank stare.
– Just crossing India in an AC2 ticket is grand enough. Just
knowing that you are in one of 45 796 coaches, welded
together at Integral Works of Chennai, and the Rail Coach
Factory of Kapurthala, being pulled by one of 7 612
locomotives pummeled together at Chittaranjan Loco
Works and the Diesel Works of Varanasi, or Diesel-Loco
Modernisation Works of Patiala – count 150 000 souls
hammering and sweating, and that there are another 17 999
trains out there this moment travelling, their wheels turning
because of Rail Wheel Factory of Bangalore in one of the 8 984
passenger trains, being served by one of 100 000 servers, and
behind it all Mittal Steel and Metal pumping out billets and
rods, and behind that miners digging pig iron or iron-iron, or
ferrous and non-ferrous rocks to pound them and smelt them
at 1 800 degrees Celsius thank you very much and over there
at Aurangabad Siemens is setting up and GM is setting up
and Bombardier Canada has already making metro coaches
in Vadodara and exporting them to all and, get a perspective
here what your arse is sitting on!
– What?
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