sinkhole schadenfreude

https://twitter.com/dmon4ever/status/746428278202732545

Sobering

today greeted us with a biblical event in our garden - a beach! only last week in cyprus we had discussed the whimsical possibility of building a beach in our garden and here it was, sandbanks and gatherings of stone baking dry in the midday sun

the beach, it turned out, had washed across the road from the sinkhole site in heavy rain, for a large pile of stones and detritus, crowned flamboyantly with a small digger, had been left to the elements' mercy

dope

sous les pavés, la plage in reverse....this can really only be understood as a metaphysical auguring of the restoration - as the soil is redeposited by means of the storm, so the blood of drummer lee rigby is transmuted into the new nation

well, it originally all came from sous les paves, so not even in reverse

the bones of charlton's lee rigbies of yore have silted my garden

yes, a return to the primordial order of things

now even the flowers will return to what they once were in glorious albion

will there be more dogs and monkeys? based on television representations, there were a lot of dogs and monkeys during the purer England era

same number of dogs but possibly many, many more monkeys

http://i.imgur.com/ooPGT39.jpg

the earth in the sweet humid enclave of the sinkhole is the only true earth, all its feigning sediments collapsed and refound as concrete en abyme

― “bad” mothers, rebel mamas, and other radical/transgressive moms (nakhchivan), Tuesday, May 24, 2016 9:56 PM (one year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

miss u nakh, all i can think to do today is watch sinkholes on youtube, it's all that's left

"the land is riddled with mineshafts and tunnels, which have now come back to haunt us"

a fossorial hauntology

this programme ("sinkholes: sucked under") is great

they're talking abt forgotten prehistoric flint-mines and only just stopped themselves using the phrase "that mineral they craved"

"sucked into the void 5000 feet below"

classic british angle: "will it affect house prices?"

(inc.a poor fellow unable to sell the only house in an entire road in bury st edmunds that fell into a forgotten mine: he's been stuck there since the 60s, while the rest of his very new modern estate turned into wild overrun fenced off wasteland)

"the uk: a small island riddled with mines"

amusingly, the narrator has actually used -- in passing -- the "it's a minefield" metaphor

"they drilled more than 100 boreholes round the school" lol

scale of voids discovered below school measured -- i am pleased to say -- in the correct unit of volume: "16 doubledecker buses"