Tuesday, August 15, 2006

There may be oil, under RockAll.  I was messing around on Google earth the other day (did you know Google earth has a  high detailed ten square mile patch of water photographed somewhere out on Georges Bank?). I saw an island where I did not recall there to be an island. It had one of those blue information 'i's so I zoomed in to take a look. Not so much an island as a terrible rock fifty feet wide rising some eighty or ninety feet out of the angry and unforgiving North Atlantic Ocean. Several hundred miles from anywhere else. It is called Rockall which is a victory of description. The peak of a dark and ancient volcano. I looked at the snapshot attached in the popup. This is that place, I thought, the place in that novel. Good Lord it's a real place, that's a disturbing thought. If there was ever a book I wish I hadn't read it would be that one. Google Earth had a link to the Wiki page Rockall - Wikipedia. Yes it confirms that this is where William Golding (who wrote lord of the flies) set Pincher Martin. After that I swiveled google earth around and looked at St. Helena, then I turned on iTunes and listened to the Kinks song Waterloo sunset and thought about trains. 11:55:12 PM    comment [];trackback [];

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