Miscellany

More Railsea

I was walking along in the rain, mentally correcting things that are Wrong on the Internet, and the swishing sleeves of my coat were saying "quiet down, quiet down, quiet down" to my het-up monkeybrain, and that fact reminded me of the train "clatternames" in Railsea--the different things the train says as it clatters along the rails, things like shrashshaa and drag'ndragun. And that made me recall this marvelous quote about the different types of salvage:

Pitted & oxidized mechani...