Jamesian Philosophy Refreshed

In St Louis we were parked awhile at an unimpressive-looking train station in an equally unimpressive neighborhood. One woman in my car was sure that this wasn't the "main" St Louis Station. She would get off at the next stop, she said, which would be the main one, downtown . Staff did with some difficulty persuade her that yes, this was THE St. Louis station and that if she didn't get off she would end up at the real next stop, several miles away. It was by now fairly late on Friday, and I fell sleep not long after we had pulled out of the main and only St Louis station. I awoke in northern Texas. Marshall, Texas, if I remember rightly. Longview Texas was next, and those on the train who wanted to go to Houston had to get off at Longview to make their connection. Around 11:20 those of us still on the Eagle were in Dallas. We had about a 20 minute stop over. I got out of the train to stretch the legs a bit and because I hoped to find a newspaper. The sole ve...

I did some traveling last weekend, much of it by Amtrak. I was almost continually on one or another of two trains for 2 and a half days. I had left what should have been plentiful room for down time in Chicago before making the connection between the one train and the other, but as it happened the Lake Shore Ltd was late getting into Union Station. I just had time for a quick lunch there Friday before looking for the gate for the Texas Eagle. I ate that lunch at a small snack bar that has a blackboard with a trivia question on it along side the menu items.  The trivia question when I arrived was, "Who said, 'I will hear in Heaven.'?" Those were, as you too might have guessed, the last words of Ludwig von Beethoven.  Unfortunately, you don't win any discount on the food by telling the waitress the right answer. I also picked up a Wall Street Journal in Chicago and learned of the arrest by New York State authorities of Sergey Aleynikov.  So his stunning v...