Casey Jones - Bottom to Top, Right to Left by https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95 Interpretation and Retelling - Cameron Redovian en-us 2018-11-16 17:21:27 UTC 2024-12-18 21:05:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Alarmclock.png CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366183 (Beat 1 - Sarcastic, belittle his character) 18:31, Eastern Standard Time. Probably won’t tell him that. He fudges a bit anyhow, blowin’ that whistle for so damn long. ]]> 2018-11-16 17:32:28 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366183 CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366376 (Beat 2 - Challenge) For that matter, how is anybody supposed to know what time is “on time”? When the stationmaster spots the smokestack? When the wheels finally cease their sinister sinistrality, screeching steel suffocating under the weight of an iron giant and his enormous ego? No one ever asks my opinion. 

]]> 2018-11-16 17:32:51 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366376 CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366546 (Beat 3 - Relent, defeated) No matter, in a few minutes we can finally clock out and rest. ]]> 2018-11-16 17:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366546 CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366862 (Beat 4 - Resign) My hands ache, and my face is filthy from the endless clouds of dust and smoke. ]]> 2018-11-16 17:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305366862 (Beat 5 - Submit, comforted) He looks down and wipes away some of the grime, beaming at me with unbridled joy. “Right on schedule!” CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367045 2018-11-16 17:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367045 (Beat 6 - Build) 20:16, Eastern Standard Time. Always forward, never backwards. No compromise, no mercy, an unstoppable force marching on, to the great peril of anyone who might stand in its path CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367427 2018-11-16 17:34:47 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367427 (Beat 7 - Engage) If you’d asked me what exactly it was that attracted me to the rails in the first place, well, I guess I’d say I liked the sound of that. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367727 2018-11-16 17:35:21 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367727 (Beat 8 - Tease) He found me one night by the tracks and I’ve been with him ever since. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367843 2018-11-16 17:35:33 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367843 (Beat 9 - Resign, Relent) Anyways, looks like we’re going out again. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367945 2018-11-16 17:35:45 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305367945 (Beat 10 - Scorn) Didn’t ask me if I wanted to go. He never does. I don’t really need the overtime. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368036 2018-11-16 17:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368036 (Beat 11 - Mock) 23:03, Eastern Standard Time. Only ninety-three minutes behind schedule. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368131 2018-11-16 17:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368131 (Beat 12 - Belittle, Berate) It’s an impossible trip; insurmountable foes like distance and velocity hang about menacingly but he doesn’t seem to pay them any mind. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368234 2018-11-16 17:36:15 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368234 (Beat 13 - Mock) “We’re gonna make it, just wait and see!” CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368364 2018-11-16 17:36:30 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368364 (Beat 14 - Scorn, Resentment) Not like I really have a choice. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368429 2018-11-16 17:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368429 (Beat 15 - Ridicule, exasperation) There he goes with that infernal whistle again. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368573 2018-11-16 17:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368573 (Beat 16 - Belittle) He’s a lot like that whistle now that I think on it, full of hot air and nothing of interest to talk about. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368661 2018-11-16 17:37:04 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368661 (Beat 17 - Implore) 01:45, Eastern Standard Time. I’m no engineer but even I know we’re going too fast. The fireman knows it too. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368743 2018-11-16 17:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368743 (Beat 18 - Scorn) He seems to revel in our discomfort. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368848 2018-11-16 17:37:24 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368848 (Beat 19 - Belittle) The challenge means more to him than any pretense of safety. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368919 2018-11-16 17:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305368919 (Beat 20 - Implore) Not like anyone even expects us on time. Hell, it probably wouldn’t even matter, the yard workers aren’t gonna complain about sleeping in a little bit. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369077 2018-11-16 17:37:50 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369077 (Beat 21 - Incite) Every bend in the track makes the fireman turn green. I don’t get nauseous. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369147 2018-11-16 17:37:57 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369147 (Beat 22 - Mock) 03:43, Eastern Standard Time. Always racing the clock. He acts like time is something he never has enough of, but lives like someone who’s had too much. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369220 2018-11-16 17:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369220 (Beat 23 - Scorn) Doesn’t make any sense if you ask me, but no one ever does. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369334 2018-11-16 17:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369334 (Beat 24 - Challenge) He keeps going on about how much time we’ve made up. You can’t make time, I should know, but don’t bother telling him that. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369411 2018-11-16 17:38:24 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369411 (Beat 25 - Engage) Outside the window, the trees rushing by with a whip, whip-whip, the stars motionless as if defying our progress. That tiny light hurdling through the great emptiness like the tip of a golden finger, barely blessing my brow only to refract away and sulk in the night, as if my very presence was an insulting obstacle, standing in the way of some unfathomable cosmic trajectory CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369501 2018-11-16 17:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369501 (Beat 26 - Resign) I try not to notice the glare. “Jump!” CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369583 2018-11-16 17:38:44 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369583 (Beat 27 - Overwhelm) 03:43, Eastern Standard Time. Madness. It all happened in a split second. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369665 2018-11-16 17:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369665 (Beat 28 - Build) For the briefest moment I could see the fireman’s face and he stared deep into mine. The look of quiet terror in his eyes was just enough to facilitate our private conversation of helplessness before he was swept away by the inertia lurking just outside. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369806 2018-11-16 17:39:11 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369806 (Beat 29 - Engage) Was it worth it? There would be no such escape for me. I lurch forward towards the brake but it’s far too late; Casey and I are bound to the same fate, and our time is up CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369968 2018-11-16 17:39:27 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305369968 (Beat 30 - Ignite) 03:44, Eastern Standard Time. I’ve come to a stop, but the world around me still moves in chaos, torn apart by the wake of two soulless monsters quarreling in a magnificent flaming somersault. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305370049 2018-11-16 17:39:35 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305370049 (Beat 31 - Reminisce) The whistle seems far off this time, as if in a dream, and I could swear I hear the gears themselves grind to a stop. You can’t run forever after all. CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305370135 2018-11-16 17:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305370135 (Beat 32 - Awaken) I wonder how long it took that twinkle to come all the way down here? How far did it travel just to make me feel insignificant? CameronRedovian https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305370233 2018-11-16 17:39:57 UTC https://padlet.com/CameronRedovian/iztqzqq3ij95/wish/305370233