It's funny what jumps out..
It's funny what jumps out in the context of current life, something that didn't when I first read it too many moons ago to specify exactly, but I suppose that's significant on both counts. I'm referring to Grahame Greene's novel Stamboul train, one of his first which I picked up again recently. A conversation early on the Ostend to Istanbul train when Mr. Opie chatting to a perfect stranger in his compartment about the relative merits of first and second class travel. 'Yes, that's so-yes,' the other answered with alacrity. 'But 'ow did you know I was English?' 'I make a practice,' Mr. Opie said with a smile, 'of always thinking the best of people.'