{"product_id":"tunnel-visions-journeys-of-an-underground-philosopher-9781841155678","title":"Tunnel Visions: Journeys of an Underground Philosopher","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen Christopher Ross put on a hi-visibility vest and joined London Underground as a station assistant, he discovered a Plato's cave of reflection and human comedy, populated by streakers, buskers, onanists and angry commuters. A meditation on life, a philosophical enquiry into human nature and a profoundly funny dissection of urban madness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChristopher Ross, philosopher and traveller, decided to cease his journeyings and go underground, working for a year as a station assistant on Platform 6 (northbound Victoria Line) at Oxford Circus. After training school, where he is taught how not to electrocute himself and always to look a member of the public in the eye as they are assaulting you, he faces up to his new duties with a mixture of curiosity and foreboding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Tunnel Visions' is a delightful mixture of lived experience in the sureal world of London's Underground and the more elevated ideas, thoughts and imaginings that experience provokes. Oxford Circus station, complete with its weeping wall, its streakers, buskers, onanists and cupboard containing one employee whose ideal working day was to sleep soundly 100 feet below ground, is a Plato's Cave of reflection and human comedy. Christopher Ross, a still point in the whirling stream of the bizarre and otherworldly life below ground, has written a profoundly funny book.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fourth Estate\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/04\/2002\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781841155678\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.50h x 5.00w x 0.50d","brand":"Christopher Ross","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51730179195061,"sku":"9781841155678","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_e6ad75a0-0def-4e15-b7d7-95556e74c483.jpg?v=1758004444","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/tunnel-visions-journeys-of-an-underground-philosopher-9781841155678","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}