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Fascinating story Kasper. I would have loved to see that. Thanks for the re-telling. -Peter Ciccariello On 7/23/06, Kasper <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > 'fudged' = misremembered, not intentionally! > > On 23/07/06, Kasper <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > I was visiting my mother's uncle in southern Karelia recently, in the > > heart of the finnish countryside, & he told me about a natural slab of > > granite he'd found with a small expedition of friends. on the surface > > of the rock there were lines of red colouration, formed by god (& this > > intelligent man) knows what natural process, that looked exactly, > > eerily, like some sort of refined script. he said it was possible even > > to try to imagine what words the lines were spelling out. they clove > > open the granite, & the lines continued inside, as the same > > uninterrupted flow of 'words'¯only now either side of the cloven rock > > showed the other's mirror image. it was a fascinating find that they > > left for a few days, to return with apparatus to carry it away > > with¯but the rock wasn't there when they returned. not a splinter or > > grain of rock remained. > > > > I may have fudged a detail or two of this story, but this picture > > reminded me of it. :) > > > > KS > > > > On 23/07/06, Peter Ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > Ruins of the mortal lexicon > > > http://tinyurl.com/kv9qv > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >