Rocketoid bomb shelters

[Tore Rye Andersen]

Robert Mahnke:

>Dragon's teeth are rather smaller.  They're concrete obstacles a few feet
>high, designed to impede tanks and other vehicles.  Wikipedia has 
>additional
>explanation, and a few pictures:
>
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon%27s_teeth_%28fortification%29

Thanks for that clarification, which I suppose I should have made myself in 
my post. But I was just trying to wax lyrical and metaphorical when I 
described those bomb shelters as "dragon's teeth" - elaborating a bit on a 
subjective association. A-and I still think those towers would fit better 
into the mouth of a proper dragon than those little puny concrete blocks, 
which seem like "innocent incisors 'n' Momworshiping molars" (GR, 211) in 
comparison to those crumbling, pointed canines (which also, as it happens, 
remind me of Blicero's teeth: "long, terrible, veined with bright brown rot" 
(GR, 94)).

In his excellent companion, Weisenburger describes dragon's teeth as 
"steel-reinforced concrete pilings sown, as it were, in the ground to thwart 
the movement of armored vehicles such as tanks." GR also includes an earlier 
description of similar structures on the coast of England:

"In the uplands a line of cylindrical blocks to cripple the silent King 
Tigers that now will never roll the land chains away like so many white 
muffins across the dun pasture, among the low patches of snow and the pale 
lime outcrops." (GR, 91)

-- "muffins" -- a decidely more homely description than "dragon's teeth," 
and certainly more fitting to Southern England than the mythical landscape 
of the Zone.

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