Steven Slatin on mon 2 feb 04
Wayne --
That's "canticle" IIRC; written by a guy named Miller. Very Catholic
Book, kind of obscure to those who were not raised with the churchly
Mysteries.
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Bruce:
There's another book along the same lines "A Chronicle for
Liebowitz" details an entire religion based on "assumptions" from
this time period.
Time for a re-read, methinks.
Wayne Seidl
> Have you ever seen _Motel of the Mysteries_ by David Macaulay? Our
> civilization gets wiped out (because the air pollution and junk
mail reach a
> critical density and suddenly collapse, killing almost everyone).
Two
> thousand year in the future an amateur archeologist unearths a
motel from
> the buried ruins of our time. The book details the finds of his
excavation
> including two bodies, one lying on a ceremonial bed facing an
altar with
> what appears to be a means of communicating with the gods and
another lying
> in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber. We are treated to
> descriptions of such "wonders" as the Water Trumpet (shower head),
the
> Sacred Headband (inscribed "Sanitized for your protection"), the
Sacred
> Point (carefully folded within the Inner Chamber).
>
> Bruce "and that's a Fact!" Girrell
>
>
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wayneinkeywest on mon 2 feb 04
Bruce:
There's another book along the same lines "A Chronicle for
Liebowitz" details an entire religion based on "assumptions" from
this time period.
Time for a re-read, methinks.
Wayne Seidl
> Have you ever seen _Motel of the Mysteries_ by David Macaulay? Our
> civilization gets wiped out (because the air pollution and junk
mail reach a
> critical density and suddenly collapse, killing almost everyone).
Two
> thousand year in the future an amateur archeologist unearths a
motel from
> the buried ruins of our time. The book details the finds of his
excavation
> including two bodies, one lying on a ceremonial bed facing an
altar with
> what appears to be a means of communicating with the gods and
another lying
> in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber. We are treated to
> descriptions of such "wonders" as the Water Trumpet (shower head),
the
> Sacred Headband (inscribed "Sanitized for your protection"), the
Sacred
> Point (carefully folded within the Inner Chamber).
>
> Bruce "and that's a Fact!" Girrell
>
>
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wayneinkeywest on mon 2 feb 04
See what re-reading does?
Make that " A Canticle for Liebowitz"
My apologies.
Wayne Seidl
> Bruce:
> There's another book along the same lines "A Chronicle for
> Liebowitz" details an entire religion based on "assumptions" from
> this time period.
> Time for a re-read, methinks.
> Wayne Seidl
> > Have you ever seen _Motel of the Mysteries_ by David Macaulay?
Our
> > civilization gets wiped out (because the air pollution and junk
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