Wandering Muses: Laughing to ourselves

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Laughing to ourselves

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phone on Jul 11, 2003, at 9:12 PM.

The woman who is reading a book in this picture (obscured by the pole, sorry) was laughing to herself, an unusual site here in Japan. Presumably she was finding something in her book funny. However, from where I was standing, I could see that she wasn't reading manga (Japanese comic books), or the latest translated Michael Moore, but rather a book of house plans (yes, house plans). I noticed her because some schoolgirls were laughing about her laughing. And because they were laughing, I started to laugh. A triangulation of laughing, a comical chain reaction, 3 sets of passengers laughing to themselves in a Japanese train car. That must've been some kind of record.

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as must be the number of times I used "laughing" in this post, I muse to myself later on....

Posted by: Kurt at July 12, 2003 01:52 AM

Sometimes I take a book (any book) with me on the train and use as a prop to just laugh out loud. It feels pretty good. But if I didn't have a book, I would just be a freak.

Posted by: kevin at July 12, 2003 01:04 PM

Images and thoughts from Japan, captured and uploaded via my mobile phone. For a (slightly) bigger picture, see my main site Hmmn.