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Vehicles of Transcendence from the Mundane in the Ballad of the Sad Café Living in a backwater town myself I can see the importance of anything to break the ordinary. Here in(insert town) the days are almost the same: wake up, go to school, get home and do home work. When something happens, say a car-wreak, everyone talks about it. Things are the same in the story, when a hunchback shows up to rattle the town into gossip, and flights of fancy. Sadly we see that the town goes back to the same routine when the café comes to a cashing end, yet thrives in it as they rise above the mundane, even if it is for a shot while. The first vehicle of transcendence would have to be the hunchback, cousin Lymon. He came to the Town in the middle of the night and claimed to be kin to the only women who could be also a vehicle of transcendence had the town not become accustomed to her presence. When he came to town the town was thrown into an uproar. Not only was he a hunchback, strange enough by itself, but he was also the co