Do you see development here? Are you living like white men? No! We’re still living like bus kanaka.

Finally, we may point to a rather narrower but truly space-age application.

One might think, reading through his works, that the man did not have a sympathetic bone in his body.

This wasn't the last tragedy to befall Reading. There were fatal accidents involving trains in 1855 and 1914, while on a lesser scale T E Lawrence (of Arabia) lost his precious manuscript of Seven Pillars of Wisdom when changing trains in 1919.