Pluto. Underground. Lineage. Plans. Pluto lived in the Seattle underground, the old stores abandoned below the raised street level project completed after the substantial fire of 1889. One night, after a poetry reading in Pioneer Square, Sylvie and I slipped down to visit Pluto. He was busy mapping out the Seattle Shanghai Tunnels, where theContinue reading “Tunnel Ahead”
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Beehive Hairdo Bun Doodle; or, Tunnel Window
Friedrich Durrenmatt’s short story “The Tunnel” concerns a young man, a student, on a train, commuting to school. The train enters a long tunnel, longer than the student recalls from previous trips along the same route. The student smokes cigars, stuffs his ears with cotton, his head in a book, and he’s wearing double glasses, clearContinue reading “Beehive Hairdo Bun Doodle; or, Tunnel Window”
