10/30/07 — Dirty Hairy
The underground starts out perfect. At first it isn't like the city above it because it is perfect. Everything must be created, heat and the passage of air. For the engineers and architects it begins as a perfect technical form. Then years go by- decades. Cross-tunnels are found to be unnecessary, so they are bricked up. Deeper tunnels are added by the government, then closed down. Limestone comes through the concrete as if it were muslin. Up above, communities die out. Stations are abandoned... the underground becomes a reflection of the city above- organic, not perfect. Full of small animals and weak plants. Good hiding places, and places that are dangerous. - Tobias Hill, Underground (1999)
