I realize the story that I am reviewing is older than most that I have available to read, but I really got caught up in the rhythm of the telling.

The main character, the doc student, tries to be so collected and intellectual when confronted with the unknown diagnoses of the bow tie gentleman. The med student's conflicts are evident in your writing, and there are a few.

The horse metaphor describes many of the bow tie gentleman's conditions but the idea that they don't allow horses on trains intimates that the doc shouldn't be on the train either. As an afterthought, I wonder if the Jew question is hinting at the idea that many Jewish perished on trains during the Holocaust years. Just a thought. Is the horse metaphor symbolic for the Jewish question?

Anyway, I was caught up in the story and feel the need to read it more than once. Thank you for such an engaging piece of authorship.

Andie