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February 24, 2015
The Conqueror Worm
—an Egyptology of urban infrastructure with its own secret chambers and traps. And, incredibly, they actually do it: they actually find the machine, realizing that the rumors were both true and strangely inaccurate. That is, the machine is even larger and more extraordinary than they'd been led to believe. It is a sprawling and tentacular presence that blocks the tunnel with the dark bulk of its old valves and pipework, like some ancient engine that wanted to hide itself in a cocoon of its own making. - - BLDGBLOG:
Posted by gerardvanderleun at February 24, 2015 10:20 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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And what do you find in the deep awful bowels of the cave? Why a Social Justice Whiner, what else?
"Anonymous Bellamy said...
Very, very cool images. It's disappointing, as always, to find that the narratives chronicling one of the more actually 'subversive' activities are so classically sexist. There are so many opportunities for crazy, perverse anthropomorphizing of something kind of monstrous like a drill, but as always, it's easier to understand the pleasure of exploration if the object of the search is feminized and "abandoned with her ass in the air", and those who would enjoy the experience enjoy it as if they're "wanking off".
" You can't make this stuff up....
JWM
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at February 24, 2015 12:46 PM