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16 January 2012

"Mystery" Landmasses

In the City of Quincy, there are areas, landmasses which appear where there hadn't even been a "void" before. Landlocked landmasses that spring up as if dropped from the sky, like puzzle pieces that don't quite fit.

Batterymarch Park is a case in point. Batterymarch Park was built quite close to where I went to junior high school. Batterymarch Park is quite big. BUT THERE HAD BEEN NO PLACE TO BUILD IT. The place it occupies now is a place that hadn't existed before it was built. It was a place that didn't exist, and it was a place we hadn't known hadn't existed. Reality, itself, had to be altered for the building of Batterymarch Park. One wouldn't have before thought that the fabric of reality would be entirely re-worked in one corner of Quincy to such an end.

Walmart is built on the fucking lip of a quarry. When I lived in Quincy, what was there was a very tall, sheer rock face. What was on the other side of that sheer rock face might have been Mars. But, was more likely to be another familiar Quincy neighborhood that one had never imagined was as close as it was to where you are now. Perhaps, at the edge of the Walmart parking lot is that familiar Quincy neighborhood. But, I also think it may be possible that Walmart is actually built "perpendicular" to the planet; and that it's some kind of "trompe l'oeil" that one experiences driving up the steep entrance road to the parking lot. That one is only led to think that one shares the same gravity as the people down below -- one doesn't.

The office parks and warehouse stores of North Stoughton, Avon, and Randolph is another case. Now, there certainly was room to build: it was fucking marsh, there was no way to check it out. But, there were streets which led thorough the area. Streets, which each had the quality of "length". I just don't remember Avon being so far away from North Stoughton, or that part of Randolph, either. How did they get so much to "fit" in between?, AND THEY'RE STILL BUILDING! It's like entering the Twilight Zone driving down those new streets -- When will this street end?, Where does it lead? I'd not be at all surprised if you eventually drive through a poppy field and end up at the Emerald City of Oz.

There's a landfill in Stoughton or Canton -- on the Stoughton/Canton line alongside Route 24. They actually import garbage from other towns. But, I know that street. Yes, it's true, that one rode down that street, which became a dirt road which went for miles through the fucking marsh without another sign of habitation until it spilled out at the front door of Blue Hills Tech. There should not have been a street which went from North Stoughton to Blue Hills Tech -- it should just not have been possible to get from the one place to the other. But there it was! Now I've only been on that street once or twice. BECAUSE IT RAN FOR FUCKING MILES THROUGH THE MARSH. Who would want to be on such a street? But I firmly believe that the "place" wherever the landfill is now didn't before exist. That it doesn't "fill in land", but that the landfill was dropped down there out of the sky.

These have been my observations.

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