If you feel tired of walking, just think of the poor donkey who has carried the brunt of our load.

Above all, the 48-page timetables of the new service, which have been distributed free at every station in the scheme, are a model to the rest of B.R. For the first time on British Railways, so far as we are aware, a substantial timetable has been produced, not only without a single footnote but also devoid of all wearisome asterisks, stars, letter suffixes and other hieroglyphics.

In its use of mathematics, Lost also highlights this unfortunate circumstance, and in the process further separates the viewers into the binary mode of casual viewer versus diehard “Lostaways.”

[…] laid handsomely out with such a rattler on the nose as nobody could have expected from a casky little man of five-feet-nothing.