The Third Junction

The third junction.

The presidents of the New York Central and the New York, New Haven and hartford railroads will swear on a stack of timetables that there are only two. But I say there are three, because I've been on the third junction of the Grand Central Station.Yes I h've taken the obvious step: I talked to a psychiatrist friend of mine, among others. I told him about the third junction at Grand Central Station, and he said it was a walking dream wish fulfilment. He said I was unhappy. That made my wife kind of mad. But he explained that he meant the modern world is full of insecurity, fear, war, worry and all the rest of it, and that I just want to escape well who doesn't? Everybody I know wants to escape, but they don't wander down into any third junction of Grand Central Station.

But that's the reason, he said, and my friend all agreed. Everything points to it, they claimed. My stamp collecting, for example; that's 'temporary Refuge from reality.' Well, maybe, but my grandfather didn't need any Refuge from reality; things were pretty nice and peaceful in his day, from all I here, and he started my collection. It's a nice collection too, blocks of four practically every U.S. issue, first-day covers, and so on. President Roosevelt collected stamps too, you know.