Summary
WE WERE told this week that drivers on the London Underground will use their Tannoys to read passengers quotations from Sartre, Goethe, Gandhi and Dostoyevsky. What a gloomy bunch -- and all foreign.
The idea is to help commuters keep morale buoyant when the Tube comes to a juddering stop. You know the type of thing. Signal box goes pop like a special effect at the pantomime when Ali Baba appears. Tannoy: 'Er, this is your driver. Summfink's gone wrong. So here is an existentialist thought from Mr J.P. Sartre.'See the full content of this document
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What ho, Jeeves! And be sure to mind the gap
There is even dark talk of Aboriginal and Red Indian proverbs b...
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