Struck plagiarizes the AFR-cult essay (pp. 1060–1061)

Le Jeu du Prochain Train is the AFR cult's origin, and its logic is the exact inverse of the pleasure-of-not-choosing. The game's finest players "ignore their five competitors completely," treating "their own will, mettle, and intuition" as the only true opponent — and not-jumping at all, "perdre son coeur," is not defeat but the unthinkable, a disgrace so total the one boy who ever did it became a byword. This is a culture that has organized itself around choosing, around will exercised against annihilation, where refusing the choice is the one unforgivable act. Set beside the American condition — a people "struck down by its own inability to say 'Non' to fatal pleasures," trained in the pleasure of not choosing — the train-cult is the theme's severe northern mirror: will as identity, choosing as the whole of selfhood, the self forged precisely by refusing to be passive before an oncoming force. Marathe's "choosing your master" comes out of exactly this ground.