Now that I've had my battery replaced in my iBook, I can watch DVDs on bullet train journeys again. I really can't think of a more wonderfully disorientating experience than, say, watching a documentary on crossing the Sahara while Japan whizzes past you at 220kph. While the mind is totally engrossed in the screen in front, the occasional sideways head movement brings one back to the present with a jolt. I've taken the bullet train to Tokyo and back at least 100 times and sometimes I feel I know every knook and cranny of the landscape on either side, but everything seems different when I return from a brief, but deep, sojourn in wartime London, or the sand dunes of Mali. Thoroughly recommended to give you a fresh view of your own environment while putting your head in a total spin.
Posted by Joe at February 26, 2004 06:30 PM