And when you have traveled by train, have you watched the landscape rolling past the windows, and listened to the conversations of your fellow passengers, and drifted off to the clacking of the wheels?” “I have done all of those things.” “Exactly. But have you ever, for even one moment, considered how the coal finds its way into the locomotive’s engine? Have you considered in the middle of a forest or on a rocky slope how the tracks came to be there in the first place?” The Count paused. Considered. Imagined. Admitted. “Never.” She gave him a knowing look. “Isn’t it astounding.” And when seen
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