The train slows down, goes in the station and stops. The wind whistles and I gaze on
the right dock at a sign with this inscription "Onyr Town", that shakes in the air.
Suddenly the stationmaster's whistle rings, immediately followed from the noise of
the wheels that start again and quickly improve speed. I am always flying, but now
behind the train. At a long distance there is a fantastic town, building with steel
and glass, sparkling in the light of the day. Probably it is Onyr Town, the country
of dreams. Opposite us there is a very high mountain and I see distinctly the
entrance of a tunnel, always more near. We continue incredibly to accellerate. At this
point the train changes and becomes a subway convoy, always on monorail and always
futuristic. We enter in the tunnel. The noise changes and becomes muffled, just as
that made from an electric train into a subway. My point of view moves from the back
to the driver's cab. We arrive to a station and we slow down without stop. During the
passage the background noise becomes more strong, as we are passing through a larger
environment. The name of the station is written on the platform, but I do not succeed
in reading it. We continue without stop into another tunnel, only giving a shrill
hoot, while every noise becomes again muffled. Then we exit from the tunnel and we
are now into a transparent tube under a green sea, where multicoloured fish swim.
Underwater we see two pyramids and also a stone statue, half-buried in the sand. A new
frightening tunnel appears in bottom direction, vertically under our feet. My look
lingers on the stone statue, that it is enormous, and then suddenly we turn into the
tunnel at top speed as if we were diving for the world heart. The scene returns in
the tunnel and a succession of rectangular lights placed at constant interval on the
vaulted roof fastly runs up to me, as if I was seated on the top of the train. We
arrive in a second station and also this time I do not succeed in decoding its name,
also if it seems written in a very evident way. We slow down without stop and go on.
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