“Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today — in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped — always somebody else’s horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!”

—  Kenneth Grahame , book The Wind in the Willows

Toad, Ch. 2
The Wind in the Willows (1908)

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