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To: Crocodile who wrote (52057)	6/10/2000 11:42:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Why thank you. Now we want to know, duh, what each of those elemental parts DOES. Many are MARKED with the wear, of the forces we have been defining here. They're SHINY, right where the train wheel was hitting them, or the tie slipping, or yadda yadda. There's a whole photo-article in just this one spot. (Done in some/any way "correctly," a course.) The whole history of RAIL. As we stood there, a train went by, and we waved. Hee hee. It was fun. He waved back. A very railroad wave. You could fell the ground shake being amplified in the pile of rail iron. All those squeaking parts the train hits, at a crossing, like when the butcher with the bandsaw hits a bone? They're all right there in the metal. Wear points = music. And so on, and so on, into the people I will meet Monday A.M. at the site, the Digsite of Modern Train Archaeology for Amateurs and Idiots And Railroad Pests.

To: Crocodile who wrote (52057)	6/10/2000 11:54:00 AM
From: Gauguin	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 71178

Everything in those pictures is way bigger and heavier than it looks, but we only had 11 pictures to get our impression. And the dominant impression was the textures. Then the technical significance and the scale. The rail plates, wt the upper right on p 1, looked like a huge pile of Roman shields or something. Like armor tiling for T Rex. Like the Chinese jade burial suits; the sewn jade tilings, but for a giant. Like say, a giant animus or house. You could armor your house. Put scales on it. It was entrapping in a pleasant way, to look at. Japanese, martial, poetic, heavy, soft. Librus? The rail-connectors bottom right are large and almost too heavy to lift. Big. Each of the common connectors in the spike pile, awaiting analysis.