Tours of the Black Clock (Steve Erickson) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги

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I’M SITTING IN THIS boxcar with four other guys there in the dark. We’re not there very long because in the station at Pittsburgh men hired by the railroad go through all the cars and clear out the bums and hobos and vagabonds, which in 1933 must be about half the people in America. So as we’re coming into Pittsburgh we have to jump from the train, and we can’t wait until the train slows too much because guys with clubs will be right there on the outskirts looking for us. The trick is to get off the train when it’s still far enough outside the city, then make our way to the other side of the city to catch the train coming out. This is assuming one doesn’t wish to stay in Pittsburgh. I don’t wish to stay in Pittsburgh. There’s this other place I’m going and it’s called New York City.