THE SUBWAY
1. The train pulled out of the station. 2. The station was grimy.
3. The station was covered with graffiti.
The train pulled out of the grimy station covered with graffity. 4. The train entered the darkness of the tunnel. 5. The train hissed 6. The train screamed.
7. The train headed downtown.
It entered the darkness of the tunnel, hissing, screaming, and heading downtown.
8. The third car held five people. 9. The third car held a woman. 10. The woman was old.
11. The third car held the woman's granddaughter. 12. The third car held a man. 13. The man was middle aged. 14. The third car held two men. 15. The two men were young.
The third car held five people, an old woman, her granddaughter, a middle-aged man, and two young men.
16. The people were strangers.
17. The people were thrown into a situation. 18. The situation was suddenly intimate.
They were strangers thrown into a suddenly intimate situation.
19. The woman clutched the pocketbook in her lap. 20. The woman was old.
21. The pocketbook was monogrammed. 22. The clutching was tight.
The old woman tightly clutched the monogrammed pocket in her lap.
23. She glanced from time to time at the two men. 24. The two men were across from her. 25. The men were young. 26. The men looked tough.
27. At the same time she listened to her granddaughter. 28. Her granddaughter talked of their outing. 29. The talk was excited.
She glanced from time to time at the two tough-looking young men across from her, and at the same time she listened to her granddaughter talking of their outing
excitedly.
30. One of the young men stared. 31. The staring was at the darkness. 32. The darkness was outside.
33. He was amused by the movements of the girl. 34. Her movements were staccato.
35. But he tried to avoid her grandmother's glances. Though amused by the staccato movements of the girl, one of the young men stared at the darkness outside, trying to avoid her grandmother's glances.
36. The other man read the ads. 37. The ads were familiar.
38. The ads were above the windows.
39. His head bobbed to the rhythm of the train.
The other man read the familiar ads above the windows, his head bobbing to the rhythm of the train.
40. The man held a newspaper open to the business section. 41. The man was middle aged.
42. The man paid little attention to the others.
43. The man tried to concentrate on the print of the report. 44. The print was small.
45. The report was of the stock market. 46. The man crossed his legs. 47. And the man uncrossed, his legs.
48. The crossing and uncrossing was to the move met of the car.
49. The movements were jerking. 50. The man was uncomfortable. 51. The uncomfortableness was obvious.
Holding a newspaper open to the business section, paying little attention to the others, the middle-aged man tried to concentrate on the small print of the stock market report, his legs crossing and uncrossing to the jerking movement of the car, obviously uncomfortable.
52. The scene outside brightened when the train pulled into the next station.
53. The train screeched to a halt.
54. The screeching was with the sound of metal resisting metal.
55. The sound was high pitched.
The scene outside brightened when the train, screeching to a haltwith the high-pitched sound of metal resisting metal, pulled into the next station
56. The people were pleased when the car filled. 57. It made them all anonymous again
The people were pleased when the car filled, making them
all anonymous again.
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