– You are stupid

– Yes, I am stupid

– No, I am stupid

– Yes, you are stupid Passepartout

– Stupid to have followed you

– It is my stupid charm

– I didn't even need the stupid money

– You don't have to follow me stupid.

– You’ll tell the boss

– Don't be stupid

– How will you manage without your slave

– I will sit and pine for you

– Who will be your Tweedle-dum to be a Tweedle-dee?

– I will miss you

– I will catch up

– Catching up will be hard for you

– Who are you going to insult each morning?

– Oh I forgot India has run out of people

– Why do you want to get rid of me so much?

– I had enough of your blank stare out of this window, you

are wasting metaphors!

– I will catch them on the way back

– It doesn't count you will see them in reverse

– What's there to see?

– Your Elephant Man, the Magnifique he's been riding on his bicycle

next to the train – there!

She looked.

– Stupid.

– Ouch…that hurt

– That was my left hook, you wait for my right

I could not understand

how she could have had a blank stare.

– Just crossing India in an AC2 ticket is grand enough. Just

knowing that you are in one of 45 796 coaches, welded

together at Integral Works of Chennai, and the Rail Coach

Factory of Kapurthala, being pulled by one of 7 612

locomotives pummeled together at Chittaranjan Loco

Works and the Diesel Works of Varanasi, or Diesel-Loco

Modernisation Works of Patiala – count 150 000 souls

hammering and sweating, and that there are another 17 999

trains out there this moment travelling, their wheels turning

because of Rail Wheel Factory of Bangalore in one of the 8 984

passenger trains, being served by one of 100 000 servers, and

behind it all Mittal Steel and Metal pumping out billets and

rods, and behind that miners digging pig iron or iron-iron, or

ferrous and non-ferrous rocks to pound them and smelt them

at 1 800 degrees Celsius thank you very much and over there

at Aurangabad Siemens is setting up and GM is setting up

and Bombardier Canada has already making metro coaches

in Vadodara and exporting them to all and, get a perspective

here what your arse is sitting on!

– What?