Paul St George is coming home after his much feted trip to America. But did anyone out there actually see him on site at the Brooklyn end? If you have any photographs of the great man in the Big Apple please do share them with us. Here he is in London (thanks cowfish!):
I am still unclear BTW as to whether Paul travels via the Tunnel or takes the plane like the rest of us. One has to assume there is some rudimentary form of transport down there.
Just a few weeks ago I might have thought of Paul as Charles
Bronson in The Great Escape, tap-tapping with his trowel and being tugged to
and fro on a trolley hundreds of metres below the ground.
But given the grand
scale and fine workmanship of the Telectroscopes, I now see in my mind’s eye a motorised
carriage – the kind of thing owners of the early Wild West railways used to
live in while the navvies banged out the track in front of them.
Or does Paul travel more ‘Lenin-style’ in something steel plated, fortified with blacked out windows, chuntering along slowly beneath the Atlantic, plotting and co-ordinating his own curious revolution?
But I digress. On a more practical level, it must be assumed that the doorway to the side of the Telectroscope is where Paul will once again surface. My daughter and I tried to open said door the other day, if only to see to see what lay on the other side, but it was firmly sealed.
The pressure gauge upon the door did twitch a bit as we tugged, deviating slightly from its typical range of 2 to 4 bar. Which begs more questions: how is Paul managing the extraordinary fluctuations in pressure that must occur in his subterranean world? And how is the light, being squeezed, travelling and bending its way across the Atlantic, still producing such fine images?
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