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"No sooner" had he arrived that they made sure that the address was secured to the box; "no sooner" had he arrived at the depot than they put the box in the baggage car; next, the box was taken off the car and put on the steamer. One can imagine how even twenty-first century express services would admire the lack of delay between the stages of his journey.59 Perhaps partly because of Brown's heavy use of passive voice ("I was placed," "I was carried," "I was taken," "I was tumbled"), recent critics overlook the workers who are doing the placing and carrying. "Crouched in the fetal position with the box tossed upside down three or four times, Brown traveled three hundred and fifty miles—having only a flask of water and a few biscuits as sustenance," Wolff writes, as if the traveling was magic.