Boys and Subways
July 4, 2008 by Kristina Chew, PhD
Filed under Health
The Boys and the Subway is a picture-blog-essay-story by artist Christoph Neumann about a dad, two boys, and the NYC subway—one of Charlie’s (and Jim’s) very favorite places. It’s got letters and colored circles, and numbers, and trains that go in tunnels underground! and there are newstands in some of the stations to get sodas and snacks! and if you don’t mind the inferno-like heat in the summer, some really pungent smells, a few flickers of a not-too-small animal’s tale under the tracks, the sounds of the erhu or a steel drum, random trash, mechanical noises: It is the place to be.
Wasn’t it a man named Charlie who couldn’t stop riding the MTA?
subway is a fun word; backwords: yawbus. one meaning of yaw: to veer off course. so i would ride the subway, but never a yaw bus, those are frightening.
Don’t you mean an animal’s tail? An animal’s tale would be a tale told by an animal. Unlike a tale told by an idiot, a tale told by an animal would signify something, wouldn’t you think?
Dei Sub Numine Viget!