Alan: The cave was declared to be a fake by archeologists, as they didn't believe that human creativity went back that far. Now we know that it did.
-Joel ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Sondheim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2006 3:23 PM Subject: Re: The Cave Paintings of Cordwainer Smith hi - A few things - I really love the piece below; I've been to archeolog- ical digs going back 1.5 million years (year at Hebrew University in Jerusalem), and this resonates; I didn't know Altamira was faked? Also I wanted to ask you about the double naming Harrison Jeff / Jeff Harrison and its / their relation to your work - Thanks, Alan On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Harrison Jeff wrote: > ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD > > in 1879, the first Cave with Stone Age paintings > was discovered at Altamira in northern Spain. they > were declared to be fakes. today, the Cave is no > longer open to the general public, who are > declared to be fakes. name incoming: > > * > > THE DEAD LADY OF CLOWN TOWN > > the Chauvet Cave, Ardèche valley, December 1994. > on the floor reposes skulls of an ibex and two wolves, > also bones of bears. the first part of the Cave has > red images on the wall, the second, black. the > dominant animals throughout the Cave are lions, > mammoths, & rhinoceroses. red handprints. these > pictures are constantly getting in one another's way. > not invisible, but material. as a matter of fact, I believe > they're much afraid of us. I quite agree with you, and > they shall lose visibility when the time comes. I feel sorry > for you, said a lioness; I am always sorry for strangers whom > Fate misguides into the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave. > > * > > A PLANET NAMED SHAYOL > > the Lascaux Cave has more than 1500 animal pictures, > but the Lascaux Cave is incapable of re-arranging even > one of these pictures, tho the sky may drop a star, may > shift a cloud. thus, the mineral is distinct from the animal. > > * > > THINK BLUE, COUNT TWO > > the paintings at Bédeilhac > in the Pyrenees vanished > completely within six months > of the Cave's discovery. please, > please come here on the land, > I had begged, knowing caves are > rickety as roofs. there are further > sights beneath the earth: rocks > and stones and trees are clouds of > yellow dust rolling behind the wagon. > > * > > THE COLONEL CAME BACK FROM NOTHING AT ALL > > the Cave of Niaux is in a limestone deposit > at the entrance to a valley created by the Ariége river. > Niaux Cave! the clay is your moon, roots your sunshine. > > blog at http://nikuko.blogspot.com - for URLs, DVDs, CDs, books/etc. see http://www.asondheim.org/advert.txt - contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], - general directory of work: http://www.asondheim.org Trace at: http://tracearchive.ntu.ac.uk - search "Alan Sondheim" http://clc.as.wvu.edu:8080/clc/Members/sondheim
