The benefits of commuting

This paragraph is packed with goodies:

Mr. Hitchcock read all of the work’s four volumes, 2,600 pages and more than 5,000 articles, at least three times, often while riding the subway between Brooklyn College and his apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan. “If I had known then what I know now,” he said in that interview, “I would have put my order in for a new pair of eyes.” —NYT