Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Standoff in a railway carriage: Shared Air

London, 1880’s:

 

He had secured the corner seat  next the conductor, where his long legs made it difficult for anyone to get in;  and at all who passed him, he looked resentfully, as if they had no business to be using up his air.

-- John Galsworthy, The Man of Property (1906)

 

(For a contemporaneous picture from Vienna, try this:

https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/03/late-arrivals.html )

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