Word: training
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tommy sat across from me on the train going to Belfast from Dublin. He propped his elbows on the table separating us, and explained the situation in Belfast. He grew up in Belfast on the Upper Falls road (any Ulsterman knows that means Tommy is Catholic). And he lifted his right hand and stuck out his index finger to speak of one side, then raised the left and slowly released its index-finger while speaking of the other side. Then he hit the tips of his fingers together hard, so tremors went right down his arms and shook the table...
...train passed into Northern Ireland without notice. There were no officials asking questions or conducting searches, no signs outside to indicate the passage from the South. The countryside seemed no different--a pleasant kind of green through the drizzle feathering the air. A sudden clump of people on a knoll flashing by in a kind of visual doppler effect brought the first traces of the difference. Standing on a group of large rocks, backdropped by reddish-grey cliffs stood three or four British soldiers in green berets and camouflage khakis. They were holding their guns across their arms, watching...
...canvas and barrels of paint. The final important scene of this last book is typical and illustrates the point. It is 1947, and the British are leaving India. Moslem and Hindu mobs, quarreling over the separation of the two sections of Pakistan from India, are butchering one another. A train from an old British hill station in the north is stopped by angry Hindus as it crosses the plains. Shouting Indian attackers kill shrieking Indian passengers by the hundreds. A young upper-class Moslem man, traveling in a first-class compartment with several Britons and an Indian nursemaid, gallantly...
...characteristic of Scott that he stages this violent scene without showing the great sweep of the plains and with no view of the exterior of the train, the mob, the blood, the bodies or the long knives. Instead, he shows the interior of the dark and shuttered first-class compartment, where the English huddle with their baggage, not understanding why the train has stopped or the reason for the tiresome shouting and banging outside. When the young Moslem leaves the compartment to go to his death, most of the British have no clear idea of what this dusky intruder...
...Great Train Robbery, Crichton...