A Journey to the Front-of-the-Train Place
1. PROLOGUE / TAKE YOUR HEADPHONES OFF YOU SOD I had gotten out of the habit of taking long walks. Or maybe I had just gotten out of the habit of other habits that would lead me to take long walks. Truthfully, that 28 mile long journey through Suffolk the summer before was an outlier; I'd grown far keener on long cycles with friends than long walks alone. But I was inspired by Sebald, Sinclair and Self to see what I could get out of my mind if I allowed it to wander. There is a song by Fleet Foxes that I like, it’s called Battery Kinzie. I tell a lie; it’s not a special favourite of mine but it just came on the stereo as I am writing now. I don’t know why the song’s called Battery Kinzie and I’m not sure if it would make a relevant anecdote for this piece if I did. I’m just keen to hold onto the following line from it: “do not wander, do not wander, do not wander through the dark”. It sounds like they’re declaring, wholesale, that wande