Sunday surprise: sinkholes
[ by Charles Cameron — and including a 1936 German illustration of the hollow earth ]
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Bryan Alexander on his Infocult blog notes a fascinating symmetry as More sinkholes open up under countries on opposite ends of the Earth — one in England and the other in Australia. The implication that our devouring planet may at last be preparing a Journey to the Centre of the Earth he leaves to his reader’s imagination..
BTW, “opposite ends of the Earth” is a delightful phrase, reminiscent of John Donne‘s “the round earth’s imagin’d corners” — kudos, Bryan!
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And while we’re on the topic of the centre or center of the earth, one of my favorite “finds” as a book-crawler was this gem from Frankfurt, 1936:
Highly compatible with Nazi occultism, nicht wahr?
And this more recent piece, showing the location of the hidden Buddhist city of “Shambala”, completes the picture:
Maybe our Journey to the Center of the Earth will provide us with some occult Infocult material, eh, Bryan?
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