MDDM Ch. 61: A Great Cone!

Sun Jul 7 21:41:44 CDT 2002

"Over the crest and down to ford and then follow the creek through a gap in the hills to another Stream, where, in the angle of confluence, it's tip just catching the first rays of the Sun, stands Capt. Shelby's 'Mound' . . . They approach the giant solid, alone upon its Promontory, as light slowly envelopes it . . ." (p. 598)

Anyone else picture a scene out of 2001: A Space Odyssey?
http://www.palantir.net/cgi-bin/image.cgi?pics/mystery17.jpg

Which, of course, echoes the hilarious scene in Vineland when Zoyd encounters a monolith of weed!

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"The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the
young know everything."
                                                                        ~~ Oscar Wilde
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