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Underlayers
Oct. 1st, 2007 05:08 pmfound another fascinating pictureful post on Pruned.blogspot.com:Call 811
(National Geographic illustration of New York's subterranean landscape.)
Referring to the public service number to call prior to digging up a portion of your property..811...the blog post's explorations and digressions on the underlayers of our urban and suburban areas are absolutely delightful.:
"The concept of a central organizing body from which you can actually find out what might be hidden under your property alone makes our minds reel with possibilities.
For instance, we can't help but imagine places where there is a particularly dense built-up of natural and cultural layers, and calling 811 would thus bring in scientists and local historians. You ring, and archaeologists come to mark the boundaries of unexcavated Native American burial mounds. Strange globular shapes right next to even stranger figurative etchings left by a paleontologist above an ancient fossil bed. Strings of numbers specifying the depth of an ancient landfill or the charred remains of a city, but which seems only augurs can discern.
Then again individual homeowners probably would never dig deep enough to disturb fossils and burial mounds. But that you could actually find out (in our fantasies), and so easily at that (again, in our imaginations), whether or not they do lie underneath, simply excites us.
Taking this reverie to its next logical phase, representatives from the Vatican come to visit in the middle of the night, while you're sleeping. In the morning, you find weird, esoteric inscriptions spray painted on your lawn. After consulting a of leather bound manuscript handed down through generations of freemasons, you learn that these inscriptions mark the border and dimensions of an anti axis mundi. It would thus be inauspicious to dig right there, because directly below -- way, way down there -- lies the gate to Tartarus....."
you won't want to miss the rest of the pictures and text so go to the original post for the whole deal.:)
(National Geographic illustration of New York's subterranean landscape.)
Referring to the public service number to call prior to digging up a portion of your property..811...the blog post's explorations and digressions on the underlayers of our urban and suburban areas are absolutely delightful.:
"The concept of a central organizing body from which you can actually find out what might be hidden under your property alone makes our minds reel with possibilities.
For instance, we can't help but imagine places where there is a particularly dense built-up of natural and cultural layers, and calling 811 would thus bring in scientists and local historians. You ring, and archaeologists come to mark the boundaries of unexcavated Native American burial mounds. Strange globular shapes right next to even stranger figurative etchings left by a paleontologist above an ancient fossil bed. Strings of numbers specifying the depth of an ancient landfill or the charred remains of a city, but which seems only augurs can discern.
Then again individual homeowners probably would never dig deep enough to disturb fossils and burial mounds. But that you could actually find out (in our fantasies), and so easily at that (again, in our imaginations), whether or not they do lie underneath, simply excites us.
Taking this reverie to its next logical phase, representatives from the Vatican come to visit in the middle of the night, while you're sleeping. In the morning, you find weird, esoteric inscriptions spray painted on your lawn. After consulting a of leather bound manuscript handed down through generations of freemasons, you learn that these inscriptions mark the border and dimensions of an anti axis mundi. It would thus be inauspicious to dig right there, because directly below -- way, way down there -- lies the gate to Tartarus....."
you won't want to miss the rest of the pictures and text so go to the original post for the whole deal.:)
