"If something would only happen – if only the subway would fail, the lights would go out, or the fat lady would topple over – then perhaps there would be an excuse for talking to this goddess sitting five feet across the aisle."
–– Gay Talese
New York: A Serendipiter’s Journey
”Another hundred people just got off of the train
And came up through the ground,
While another hundred people just got off of the bus
And are looking around
At another hundred people who got off of the plane
And are looking at us
Who got off of the train
And the plane and the bus
Maybe yesterday."
–– Stephen Sondheim, from “Company”
