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To: Gauguin who wrote (31387)	7/9/1999 8:35:00 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Today I saw something at the Library of Congress that I really, really want. It's a topographic representation of the continental United States done in paper, cut with a laser. I think they started out with a stack of cream-colored paper maybe three feet by two feet and a couple of inches tall, all glued together, and then the laser cut the topography into it. Every place it burned a paper edge is brown, and where the paper wasn't burned it's cream-colored. So the Mississippi valley, say, is pretty much cream colored. And the long valley in California right next to the Sierra Nevadas - is that the San Fernando valley? - is cream-colored. There were no names, so I am just going by guess and memory. And the Sierra Nevadas just went straight UP, about two inches high, on the east side the long valley, and are brown. The Appalachians are maybe half an inch high at most, like pencil eraser height. Nubs. Oregon looked pretty bumpy to me. Northern Alabama was bumpier than I realized. And Arkansas, and Missouri. I need me one of them maps.