'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.
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> I may have fudged a detail or two of this story, but this picture
> reminded me of it. :)
>
> KS
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> On 23/07/06, Peter Ciccariello <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> > Ruins of the mortal lexicon
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> > -- Peter Ciccariello
> > http://invisiblenotes.blogspot.com/
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