One carriage was designed by rene lalik, the iconic french glass designer who helped start the ardeco movement. Another carriage used to be a brothel in the second world war. One of the train cars that got trapped in a blizzard under meters of snow for days inspired agatha christ novel, murder on the orient express. Every room is a minny museum. They are really like tiny, little hotel suites on wheels. And there's this very groovy, old fashioned flush toilet that's varnished wood with brass fittings.
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In our third episode, we explore the question of how we’ve changed. Host Lilah Raptopoulos talks to the writer Imogen West-Knights about the phenomenon of treat brain: how the pandemic spurred our desire to excessively indulge. Then, columnist Janan Ganesh describes why lockdown decidedly did not change him — and why he’s worried if it changed you. Plus: Maria Shollenbarger sweeps us away on the world’s most glamorous train.
Links from the episode:
—Imogen West-Knights describes Treat Brain: https://www.ft.com/content/3ed08931-80b0-43a0-9bba-6c4bcc1b3e70
—Janan Ganesh on the lockdown epiphany that wasn’t: https://www.ft.com/content/bf7c501e-12a5-4737-b297-15eba91b26a0
—Maria Shollenbarger aboard the Orient Express: https://www.ft.com/content/9f776436-8205-48cc-a879-7a053f388671
—Lilah’s Instagram Live with Esther Perel: https://www.instagram.com/tv/CULKKCcJXdq/
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