If all slots within the SI are occupied, the slot used by a station located furthest away from oneself will be chosen.
There are somewhat private and comfortable listening and viewing stations where one can avail oneself of the library's resources, or just take a nap.
I recall the conversation between the young Bateson in Evelyn Waugh's Scoop (quoting from which I acknowledge as a weakness) when he went to meet William Boot at the station on his return to London: "But do you think it's a good way of training oneself - inventing imaginary news?" "None better," said William.
The reality, he admitted, had been less thrilling – the blur of time and rest stops, the boredom, the discomfort, the surprise and disorientation upon finding oneself tipped out in a Manhattan bus station with nowhere to go.
Steeped in the Horatio Alger myth of good character, white skin and "pluck" being the magic formula for pulling oneself up by the bootstraps to a higher station in life, we have been told that work is the key determinant in our station in life.
"On a sunny afternoon when everyone is outside, one would do best to hang about in the train station or, better yet, stay at home, draw the curtains, and surrender oneself to one's boredom on the sofa," he wrote.
According to Mr. Pongjirangkan, practical information on protecting oneself from bird flu often fails to reach community radio stations in remote areas.
Subway riders persist in eating, drinking and littering while in stations, leaving behind the crumbs and detritus that, in a rat's eyes, are an invitation to make oneself at home.
"One must show oneself deserving," he said.
Is it possible to smack down oneself?
At enclosed stations, where 46percentt of the deaths occurred last year, JR East has begun installing mirrors across the tracks from passenger platforms, with the idea that the sight of oneself could give a jumper pause.
