waiting

First North Western service to Manchester and Midland Mainline service to St. Pancras 2 June 2004

traveller "...

Some people, a woman opposite and a man further down the carriage, have adopted a similar position: hands clasped and resting in their lap, eyes resting straight ahead. Reminds me of automata, waiting to be switched on. [notebook: Virgin Trains service to London Euston 10 March 2004 4pm]

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ethnographic guide

Waiting, that is, suspending time imaginatively or meditatively, is an active rather than passive practice. It alters the sensory experience of the world: the passage of time, the motion of the body, are made differently. Whether daydreaming or worrying or meditating, the journey is made from that transformative practice. However, the experience of a journey-as-waiting will go to constitute the experience of arrival; a journey that is full of worry, will constitute an arrival full of worry.