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There was a Green Line accident this morning at Boylston Street, two trains collided and folks went to the hospital and all. The Glob online is running a story complete with a humonjus picture of an injured rider being taken out on a backboard right past a station decoration of the MBTA's cartoon Charlie mascot grinning and giving the thumbs-up.

On the one hand the irony of this picture is morbidly amusing, but on the other hand my god, my object empathy (which I described a few years ago) is flaring up something fierce.

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[ruthling.livejournal.com]

your object empathy essay that was linked here was really interesting. I'll have to pay attention now to how much of that I experience, although I suspect it's considerable.

I saw that photograph earlier today; an officemate of mine was in the train behind the one that crashed, and she was a little shaken that had she hurried a bit more she would have been more involved, rather than just inconvenienced quite a bit.