Disoriented in the morning, sleepy on a dark train. Thru thick glass, a solid gray curtain and somewhere a city. 1950s kinescope television. Jackie Gleason. Cruising above flat roof tops and Queens streets, head leaned into soft jacket folded against window. Eyes closing to flashes of light and brick buildings passing rapidly in snowy ...

We see a classic door to door vacuum cleaner salesman in a smart wool suit and felt homburg. His foot is lodged firmly in the front door at the home of a hesitant young woman. Perhaps that day she was lonely or very bored because she decides not to turn the salesman away, but instead allows him to enter her home and demonstrate his product. Still, she remains quite skeptical, and as he strides into her livingroom, she worries he'll dump a load of manure onto her carpet and the vacuum cleaner will fail to remove it. The salesman offers his reassurance with the firm guarantee that his machine will not only remove any form of dirt, but will actually reverse the aging process of her carpet(for the life of the carpet). The thought of owning a sleek Electro-Lux Vacuum of Youth appeals to the young woman's sense of practicality, and her interest & credulity start to rise - ah, but wait a minute... she has wood floors - there are no carpets. She turns to yell at the salesman to stop but it is too late - he is already emptying the contents of a large and ragged old burlap sack onto the shiny pine floor. But the pile turns out not to be dung but letters - thousands of tiny black letters as if they had fallen from a typed page, spelling out innumerable sentences in nearly every language. All of the salesman's words were spilled on her floor. Sheepishly, he confesses to the young woman that he doesn't have a vacuum cleaner to clean up the mess, but she doesn't seem to hear or care as she is absorbed with reading at the constructions formed by the letters. Silent. Nothing more is said until...

The conductor announces Springfield stop along with a polite nudge. Disoriented in the afternoon, sleepy on a dark train.