Our friends at Google have been taking street level pictures in various places and have come across some remarkable scenes but perhaps none as spectacular/mysterious/ambigously religious as the one presented in this NY Times article/blog by Jena Wortham: see http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/has-google-found-a-stairway-to-heaven-in-brooklyn/?th&emc=th or http://tinyurl.com/m77htr
Is it a stargate? Is it a stairway to heaven? Is it heaven manifested on Earth? The one thing that raises doubts about the heavenly nature of this phenomenon is that though it occurred in NYC, it happened in Brooklyn and, as New Yorkers will readily admit, there is nothing heavenly about Brooklyn :-) ;-) ;-0 Quoting a local: |"It's Brooklyn," he wrote. "Trust me that that isn't Heaven." But perhaps there is something about the neighborhood in which the phenomenon occurred that is special: "Carroll Gardens". Imagine the income possibilities of setting up a "gourmet" lemonade stand on that block! :-) [Sidenote: this reminds me of the movie "The Fisher King" when the PTSD/Delusional Parry is on a Grail quest and he believes that the holy cup is in the possession of rich man in a mansion on Manhattan's upper east side, the "silk stocking district" where the really filthy rich live (e.g., Mayor Mike Bloomberg) and when Parry explains the quest to Jack Lucas in part: |JACK |The Holy Grail? Some billionaire has |the Holy Grail sitting in a commode |on Madison Avenue? | |PARRY |I know! You can't imagine how |surprised I was. Who would think you |could find anything divine on the |Upper East Side. [for more, see: http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/fisher-king_shooting.html and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/ and http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101889/quotes ] -Mike Palij New York University [email protected] --- To make changes to your subscription contact: Bill Southerly ([email protected])
