2004-04-10 Il Treno a Napoli (The Train to Naples)
Sitting in a fuzzy blue chair. Car two on the train to Naples. Raining, foggy, dreary. Vineyards, umbrella trees, open meadows. Run down villas, brightly colored. Slower over the bridge. Mist-shrouded mountains in the distance. Ruins of acqueducts flitting by. Industrial plant out of nowhere. Under old bridges now.
Terraced hillsides, lined with trees. Not a soul in sight. Short, gnarled trees. Asked for our tickets. Three passengers sleeping, one reading, one writing. Laughter in the next cabin. Passed by another train.
A house with an odd roof structure. Monochrome sky. Steel gray, oppressive. A perfect atmosphere for Pompeii.
Burning logs in a field. Behind a wall, landscape of horizontal lines. So fast, turbulence. Field of white tubes. Cisterns, holding tanks, chemicals.
Time for a nap.
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