Topic #194: A Vanished World?

[red_eyed_sin]

"The true magic of this broken world lay in the ability of the things it contained to vanish, to become so thoroughly lost, that they might never have existed in the first place." The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by Michael Chabon. This quote is rather interesting to me, considering how very long I have lived and all the things that have

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[doug_ramsey]

London changes and yet it does not; there are the same great buildings, the same roads, the same pervasively cloudy sky. It is quite a thing to watch a city as it transforms to its era. Quite a thing indeed.

What do you think of the Gherkin?

Phallic symbol?

Super-secret alien base on earth?

Both?