I think the story is about a girl who came to Belleville whith a group of people from New York because of the New Madrid Fault and Iben Browning's prediction of a major desaster (like the one in 1810 when the river flew backwards for a short time). Maybe she is a geologist or a journalist.
He fell in love with her. But she returned to New York after seismic activity has failed to appear. He is wounded because she only seemed to be intested in the possible desaster ... ("for her that's enough").
So he daydreams of desaster ... to bring her back - or to bury him and all things in the fault
I dont't understand "caroms over the landfill"
I'm no native speaker - does carom mean something like bounce? - and does landfill mean the fault in this case?
Carom is a game that's a bit like pool, but as a verb I think I think it means to strike and rebound (sort of like bounce) in the way that pool balls bounce off each other.
Carom is a game that's a bit like pool, but as a verb I think I think it means to strike and rebound (sort of like bounce) in the way that pool balls bounce off each other.
@caspar64 Hi, I think it's carrion, like a carrion crow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_crow
Anyway, I love this song. I used to think it was about Madrid, New Mexico, which is a very cool little old mining town in the hills south of Santa Fe. : ) I guess we all interpret things in a context that has somekind of meaning to us.
@caspar64 Hi, I think it's carrion, like a carrion crow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_crow
Anyway, I love this song. I used to think it was about Madrid, New Mexico, which is a very cool little old mining town in the hills south of Santa Fe. : ) I guess we all interpret things in a context that has somekind of meaning to us.
I think the story is about a girl who came to Belleville whith a group of people from New York because of the New Madrid Fault and Iben Browning's prediction of a major desaster (like the one in 1810 when the river flew backwards for a short time). Maybe she is a geologist or a journalist.
He fell in love with her. But she returned to New York after seismic activity has failed to appear. He is wounded because she only seemed to be intested in the possible desaster ... ("for her that's enough").
So he daydreams of desaster ... to bring her back - or to bury him and all things in the fault
I dont't understand "caroms over the landfill"
I'm no native speaker - does carom mean something like bounce? - and does landfill mean the fault in this case?
Carom is a game that's a bit like pool, but as a verb I think I think it means to strike and rebound (sort of like bounce) in the way that pool balls bounce off each other.
Carom is a game that's a bit like pool, but as a verb I think I think it means to strike and rebound (sort of like bounce) in the way that pool balls bounce off each other.
@caspar64 Hi, I think it's carrion, like a carrion crow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_crow Anyway, I love this song. I used to think it was about Madrid, New Mexico, which is a very cool little old mining town in the hills south of Santa Fe. : ) I guess we all interpret things in a context that has somekind of meaning to us.
@caspar64 Hi, I think it's carrion, like a carrion crow. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrion_crow Anyway, I love this song. I used to think it was about Madrid, New Mexico, which is a very cool little old mining town in the hills south of Santa Fe. : ) I guess we all interpret things in a context that has somekind of meaning to us.