" Bright speed I refuse to forgo experiencing until the end, but both of its parameters are too great in comparison to myself for me to apprehend it while I feel it. Like an earthworm I need to tunnel through my memories and anticipations of it; like Wordsworth’s spontaneous overflow of emotion recollected in tranquility. Hence when I ride freight trains my senses open; only later in dark slowness can I try to understand what it is that I’ve felt. "

― William T. Vollmann , Riding Toward Everywhere