Or, how about a delicatessen where they just didn't clear the old stock
away, ever. ? ( you could take this metaphor further, but I don't think I
will!)
The Sybil - obviously this legend predates Fawlty Towers, but I don't know
it - is this a similar legend to the sirens?
ppl
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From: "NF" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: 29 November 2001 23:04
Subject: Re: sounds of ancient places
Peter Lennox:
>In fact, it could be argued that we've gone backwards in terms of
>place-sound design; our contemporary soundscape (which I admit I often find
>interesting) is as messy as a countryside littered with mining spoil. It's
>as though an architect had spent all the clients money on an impressive
>building, but nobody thought to clear up the builder's rubbish, and the
>local scrapman keeps his surplus stocks in it, and local inhabitants think
>it's the council dumpit site, and so on. There's so much stuff in it that
>you can't actually find anything. I personally love scrapyards, but I
>wouldn't want to live in one.
>Yet, sound-wise, we all do.
NF: Yeah that's a nice thought.
Incidently, speaking of ancient sites and myths, I have often (wildly)
speculated that / wondered whether the legend of The Sybil had some kind of
weird relationship to the resonances of a cave labyrinth located within an
active earthquake zone around Vesuvius.
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