I crested a pass deep in the Rockies, above ten thousand feet, and found
myself face to face with what had once been a montain top but was now a
lake that was the settling tank for a molybdenum mine and smelter. The
liquid was at least as much mineral as water--it looked like mercury. Utter
horror, an entirely blasted landscape. Now imagine little sailboats with
orange sails.
Mark
At 05:25 PM 3/1/2005, you wrote:
>Oh, the Butte mine pit, yes! *This* I would love to see.
>
>
>On Tue, 1 Mar 2005 16:54:28 -0500, Mark Weiss <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > How about not "enhancing"--or piggybacking--on the allure of the already
> > wondrous and instead draping a landfill, or a favela, so as to create
> > beauty, and economic advantage, where few see either? Would that be too big
> > an imaginative leap for the happy pair, or would they be in danger of not
> > making as much money or as many headlines? How about draping an oil field?
> > Or a lifeless river? Or a battlefield? There are plenty to choose from.
> >
>--
>Sharon Brogan
>http://www.sbpoet.com
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