Chair Car (Hopper)

Something vaguely disquieting about this otherwise calm library-like
train scene is the absence of a handle on the exit door…if it is a door.
At least, in the office of a pediatric dentist, the door handle exists;
although it is placed so as to be beyond reach of a child considering flight, as I was, when taken at age six to a local theater to see the Wizard of Oz, utterly unprepared for a wicked witch, and when she arrived on the twenty foot screen in shocking close up visage…then cackled..I didn’t hesitate…
but leapt from my suddenly unsafe seat and ran from the enormous harridan into the relative haven of a drenching afternoon rainstorm.

It was a long time before I could return, and when I eventually did, months later, I imagined she was still  behind the huge screen waiting with the wizard…or his stentorian voice, at any rate…I hadn’t stayed long enough to learn what was behind the curtain.  Perhaps this chair car doubles as caboose; or perhaps something darker is coming for these unsuspecting children…why else pay such detailed artistic attention to a vanishing point?