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24-DEC-2005 David Mingay

Dec 24: Nature reclaims

I have a similar subject to LA today. I'm facinated by the decaying industrial past we have on our doorstep. This metal sheet, once maybe a roof, is now rusted so thin grass grows through it. It's not just the old mining and quarrying equipment rusting either. The occaisional fly tipper has made his unwelcome way onto the hill over the years. I often try to work out what some of the remaining rusted parts once were. Today I found a wheel that might have once been part of a Peugeot, and somewhere else there's the remains of a 1980's Skoda, turning back into it's pre manufactured state.


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Robin Reid24-Dec-2005 22:14
Interesting David. Your reflections remind me of this poem which has always grabbed me:

I met a traveler from an antique land,
Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert....Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings,
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away."
Percy Bysshe Shelley - 1817
JW24-Dec-2005 20:17
Well observed, and an important issue. It's very comforting really, don't you think.