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Chapter 8​.​2: Defunct Machinery (Orford Ness)

from Music For Places IV: The Rings of Saturn by Lee Barry

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"...but the closer I came to these ruins, the more any notion of a mysterious isle of the dead receded, and the more I imagined myself amidst the remains of our own civilization after its extinction in some future catastrophe. To me too, as for some latter-day stranger ignorant of the nature of our society wandering about among 'heaps of scrap metal and defunct machinery, the beings who had once lived and worked here were an enigma, as was the purpose of the primitive contraptions and fittings inside the bunkers, the iron rails under the ceilings, the hooks on the still partially tiled walls, the shower heads the size of plates, the ramps and the soakaways. Where and in what time I truly was that day at Orford Ness I cannot say, even now as I write these words. All I do know is that I finally walked along the raised embankment from the Chinese Wall Bridge past the old pump house towards the landing stage, to my left in the fading fields a collection of black Nissen huts, and to my right, across the river, the mainland..." (pp. 230-237)

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from Music For Places IV: The Rings of Saturn, released April 2, 2018

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