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Sydney central train station

alexei — Thu, 14/05/2009 - 11:03

In Pratchett's and Gamain's book good omens, the demon Crawley realises that you get a much bigger volume of corrupted Soul by tarnishing a whole lot of people than by utterly corrupting a single person like a priest. The M25 motorway is given as an example of such a mass-soul-tarnishing device through the frustration and anger it evokes.

Presenting Exhibit B: Sydney Central Train Station

It's got the usual overcrowded, exposed to the elements and general run down feel of Sydney public transport, but it's the small details that matter ...

There are no public toilets at the station. There don't appear to be any rubbish bins either. There are very few seats and they are always taken. That's OK though, because whoever designed the station put in a whole lot of criss-crossed rafters above the seats as the pigeons designated defecation area.

But my favorite by far (pointed out by a visitor from Toronto) is that all the information screens are polarised the wrong way. So if you're wearing polarised sunglasses you just see a whole lot of black boxes hanging from the ceiling - presumably something to do with the pigeons.

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