chalk carved into a hillside is a sham
Today I passed by the Long Man of Wilmington. He's standing on the north-western face of a truly epic hill which dominates the landscape (from a train window, anyway) for about five minutes; but the Man himself is only visible for about one of those. The surrounding landscape is beautiful today, really. The sun's out & this is some supremely unspoiled green belt land - everywhere ancient hedges and thickets and velvety fields. About twenty minutes before this I'd passed Pevensey Castle (which is a truly gorgeous ruin surrounded by bungalows) and it got me to thinking that this is an adventurer's landscape, this. People hang-glide from these hills. Then about ten minutes later I passed through Lewes, which is huge rolling hills mostly, and I could totally see a behemoth cresting one and pausing to roar.... Ok maybe not. But the point is, this is an area of outstanding natural beauty (and weirdos, lots and lots of weirdos, and druids and Satanists).
Then I checked out the wiki page linked above and was like, god damn. Turns out the Long Man is a total Early Modern fraud and is NOT EVEN CARVED OUT OF THE HILL. He's been made out of breeze blocks since the 60s. Which means that my mum was 100% lying the whole time whenever we drove past it. (it's on the way to a pretty good zoo)
If that can happen, bring on the behemoths tbh.
Then I checked out the wiki page linked above and was like, god damn. Turns out the Long Man is a total Early Modern fraud and is NOT EVEN CARVED OUT OF THE HILL. He's been made out of breeze blocks since the 60s. Which means that my mum was 100% lying the whole time whenever we drove past it. (it's on the way to a pretty good zoo)
If that can happen, bring on the behemoths tbh.