tunnel quotes

Baedeker is astonishingly enduring; travellers can use nineteenth-century editions with confidence, providing they take some elementary precautions. Many hotels will long since have disappeared, and the prices will be somewhat different, but if Baedeker says'On leaving the tunnel, the best view is on the right', it probably still is, unless somebody has shifted the mountain, and his descriptions of sceneryand where to go to see it at its best are still valid, as ispracticallyall of his potted history.

- (Henry) Bernard Levin
  Hannibal's Footsteps.

We feel the machine slipping from our hands As if someone else were steering; If we see the light at the end of the tunnel, It's the light of the oncoming train.

- RobertTraill Spence,Jr Lowell
  Day by Day,'Since1939'.

Johnson approached a strongly fortified position by outflanking it, or burrowing under it, or surprising the defenders from the rear, or raining down obstacles upon them from the sky, or starving them into submission† Rarely, and then only reluctantly, would he proceed directly from A to B, to him the shortest distance between two points was a tunnel.

-William Raymond Manchester
  Of Lyndon B  Johnson. The Death of a President.

It seemed that out of battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which titanic wars had groined.

-Wilfred Owen
  'Strange Meeting', collected in Poems (published1920).

Hab|a un solo t u nel, oscuro y solitario: el m|o, el t u nel en que hab|a transcurrido mi infancia, mi juventud, toda mi vida† Yentonces, mientras yo avanzaba siempre por mi pasadizo, ella viv|a afuera su vida normal, la vida agitada que llevan esas gentes que viven afuera. There was only one tunnel, dark and solitary: mine, the tunnel in which I had spent my childhood, my youth, my entire life† And then, while I kept moving through my passageway, she lived her normal life outside, the exciting life of people who live outside.

- Ernesto Sa  bato
  El tu  nel, ch.36 (translated asThe Outsider,1950).

Her logic was a combination of half-truths and cliche  s, her worldviewa compound of misconceptions deriving from a history of our nation as written from the perspective of a subway tunnel.

-John Kennedy Toole
A Confederacy of Dunces (published1980), ch.5, pt.3.