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Edited May 21, 2007, 07:55
Re: Silbury updates
May 21, 2007, 07:52
Littlestone wrote:
perhaps we could do a Silbury Hill pop-up book as well as a Stonehenge one :-) This would show Silbury's pristine appearance four and a half thousand years ago, followed by its various desecrations and humilities over the last few hundred years. We could have pull-up Cornish miners, abseiling Dutchmen and an Atkinson look-alike being tabbed in and out of his tunnel on a BBC forklift (wearing of course a Superman tunic). We could even run a caption on what pompous platitudes Atkinson was spouting before he bugged off and let his tunnel into the heart of Silbury be backfilled with road chippings.




Ideas for pop-up.. children should be introduced to the concept of media feedback,(optimistic, full of hope and a load of b..........) how it is then interpreted by said media .... . For the pictures, 1) helicopter and polythene being lowered into the hill; 2) a great tunnel drilled into "the largest manmade prehistoric structure in Europe" which the question alongside, do we really have to extract supposed "treasures" from its interior, or go one looking for information, which may or may not be there?; final picture of Silbury, minus hole at top, sitting in a landscape dedicated to the fact that it is part of a whole symbolic sacred prehistoric landscape.

The book would have in its title Silbury Hill and folly of man, not sure how to juxtapose those two ;)
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