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Mira Kamdar's avatar

More stories like this, please. Also, it will be hard not thinking of "gull guano" now whenever I see a recently sanded clean Haussmannien in Paris. Not sure I want to thank you for that!

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Sirius White's avatar

I await the next installment of your exploration eagerly

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Kristoffer Jul-Larsen's avatar

Penny Little, is that you?

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Matthew's avatar

As soon as I encountered the thought of Kircher, I switched on my favorite 1995 record, by the Parisian ambient/electronic pair, Lightwave, and their own Mundus Subterraneus.

Then I thought of my wife, born in Chifeng, Inner Mongolia, within 24 hours of my own birth in TN, though figuring the exact correspondences there seems to me unapproachable by the simple timezone arithmetic. She dug her way here, more than a quarter century, and me with my ear placed to a square in the ground, knowing I oughtn't to move, or if I should, move carefully, carefully.

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Paul E. Russell.Jr's avatar

One of your best. Could almost be an homage to Mr.Poe.

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Teaching Nihilists To Care's avatar

Ratner’s Star, by Don Delillo! Moholes abound

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