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Without the quote from the book, I'm not sure we can make the case that the author felt "that shooting heroin is as little use as he considers the railfan hobby to be" - that seems to me to be a bit stronger than the scene implies to me - I don't know that we can say the author feels train spotting is useless.  The slang sounds more to me like an ironic use of the term and not necessarily commenting on the actual hobby - like a bar I saw recently called "Rehab" - "Let's all go to Rehab" (and aren't we all clever) - that kind of thing.  I did look in my library system for the book, but they've only got the movie and the soundtrack, so I couldn't get the actual quote.<br>

Without the quote from the book, I'm not sure we can make the case that the author felt "that shooting heroin is as little use as he considers the railfan hobby to be" - that seems to me to be a bit stronger than the scene implies to me - I don't know that we can say the author feels train spotting is useless.  The slang sounds more to me like an ironic use of the term and not necessarily commenting on the actual hobby - like a bar I saw recently called "Rehab" - "Let's all go to Rehab" (and aren't we all clever) - that kind of thing.  I did look in my library system for the book, but they've only got the movie and the soundtrack, so I couldn't get the actual quote.<br>

SO - let's see if we can put together a paragraph that works.  ''"Despite the name, ''Trainspotting'' does not have anything directly to do with the hobby of train spotting, in which railfans keep track of the rolling stock they've seen.  The name refers to a scene in the original novel, which was not included in the movie.  The movie also includes a number of references to trains, including the train wallpaper in the lead character's childhood bedroom."''  This is not perfect - can we improve it here then transfer it to the main page? --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 14:50, 28 October 2008 (EDT)

SO - let's see if we can put together a paragraph that works.  ''"Despite the name, ''Trainspotting'' does not have anything directly to do with the hobby of train spotting, in which railfans keep track of the rolling stock they've seen.  The name refers to a scene in the original novel, which was not included in the movie.  The movie also includes a number of references to trains, including the train wallpaper in the lead character's childhood bedroom."''  This is not perfect - can we improve it here then transfer it to the main page? --[[User:Hsmom|Hsmom]] 14:50, 28 October 2008 (EDT)