Bus Line Ninety-Four goes from Ossington (twenty-seventh most used of seventy-five Toronto Transit Authority subway stops) to Castle Frank (twelfth least used) with an alternate ending at Wellesley (thirty-ninth most used). It spans 3.11 miles (exactly five kilometers). In a rational world Line Ninety-Four wouldn't exist, as connecting two down-town subway stations by a bus line is plainly ridiculous. The only reason for a Line Ninety-Four is that Mr. K. T. Fields (the illegitimate son of the Archbishop of Gaast) wants it. Fields is the omnipotent, mysterious master of the Secret Sudden Start and Stop Society (S-S-S-S-S); they start or stops things just because they can. They used to put things on top of other things but they stopped as they run out (of things) and they also thought it to be, frankly, a bit silly. Now, daily, about thirty nine thousand seven hundred people kiss their butt by buying tickets and listen to bizarre public service announcements.
It humorously exposes the absurd and the stupid and arbitrary decisions of those in power! That’s why I love it!
ReplyDeleteJust an irrelevant correction. K.T. Fields ‘s father was not the Archbishop of Gaast but the Coadjutor Bishop of Weinberg. He was the only boy among his father many illegitimate children. K.T.F. was and remains a
ReplyDelete“ bastard”. The richness of imagination and humour displayed in this piece gives me a lot of pleasure.