Friday, April 21, 2006

Gorgeous (part 2)

...And if you follow Brunel’s Great Western Railway from London Paddington to Bristol, you’ll pass along the way the massive chimneys of Didcot Power Station.

Everyone claims to hate these steaming giants, but I think they’re extremely beautiful, especially as you cruise sleepily past them in your train carriage. Your natural wonders are all well and good, but for my money man’s ingenuity is really the thing.



They’re like Cloud Machines. In the land of Oz or somewhere...
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2 comments:

  1. Oroborous12:02 pm

    I agree.

    While the wonders of human construction are definitely secondary to natural wonders, they're still quite impressive.

    I really like the raw, gritty, enormousness of human industrial activity. Giant, rust-streaked ships and cranes, industrial parks, tangles of interlocked freeway overpasses, colossal buildings housing steel works or airplanes...

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  2. Brit9:55 am

    Well, one is enough, true.

    I also think wind farms are pretty, but everything in moderation.

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