There are some evocative phrases that put me straight into a place or mood - literary shorthand maybe. Paul Simon's 'sound of a train in the distance' is one.
Right now I can hear lawnmowers... that is one that when I read I immediately go to a kiwi front lawn on a hot day. But I also can add my cousins house by the pool where there were deck chairs or my father in his terrible brown shorts looking uncomfortable in the sun at Christmas in the late 70s.
Trains in the distance was Paul Simon's way of saying things can get better. The sound of lawnmowers says to me we're already there if we just stop and realise it.
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