luka

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Say some clever stuff on that revolution thread for me I have to go to work. Do your brainiac thing.
 

Mr. Tea

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Relevant: not sewers per se, but Exeter has a system of underground passages dating from the middle ages, dug to supply fresh water to the city, which I think are unique in this country. You can go on a tour of them, which I did with some work colleagues a couple of years ago. Really atmospheric but not an experience for those inclined to claustrophobia! At one point the tour guide (after asking us if it was OK) turned off the lights in the section we were in. It's not often you ever experience absolute and total darkness, the sort that starts to lead to closed-eye hallucinations almost straight away - the old 'prisoner's cinema' experienced by those put in total darkness as an extra punishment.

It was quite weird seeing ferns growing that far underground, at least in areas where there are lights installed.

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"According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, our planet's most pronounced topographical features compromise an approximate mirror image of the crust's underside. The steppes of the Ukraine thus roof the crating platforms which replicates them, while the Ural Mountains not only project into the sky, but in equal measure stab down like gabblers trained upon the magma on which our contest uneasily slither. To me, the thought that this world is doubled within its own red, liquid hell is a profoundly unnerving one. Chaos seethes beneath my feet."

-- William T. Vollmann, Europe Central.
 

Mr. Tea

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"According to the Great Soviet Encyclopedia, our planet's most pronounced topographical features compromise an approximate mirror image of the crust's underside. The steppes of the Ukraine thus roof the crating platforms which replicates them, while the Ural Mountains not only project into the sky, but in equal measure stab down like gabblers trained upon the magma on which our contest uneasily slither. To me, the thought that this world is doubled within its own red, liquid hell is a profoundly unnerving one. Chaos seethes beneath my feet."

-- William T. Vollmann, Europe Central.

"As above, so below"
 

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River of Fundament takes the form of a three-act opera and is loosely based on Norman Mailer’s novel Ancient Evenings.[19] In collaboration with composer Jonathan Bepler, Barney combines traditional modes of narrative cinema with filmed elements of performance, sculpture, and opera, reconstructing Mailer’s hypersexual story of Egyptian gods and the seven stages of reincarnation, alongside the rise and fall of the American car industry.

Barney replaced the human body with the body of the 1967 Chrysler Imperial that was the central motif from his earlier film Cremaster 3.[19] The film’s central scene is an abstraction of Mailer’s wake, set in a replica of the late author’s apartment in Brooklyn Heights and featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal, Paul Giamatti, Elaine Stritch, Ellen Burstyn, Peter Donald Badalamenti II, Joan La Barbara, and jazz percussionist Milford Graves.
 

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The Chamber of Secrets in Harry Potter is a pretty potent image/idea.

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