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Two Negative Manhattans

March 11, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

From Pruned (here and here)

This is what happened:

Yesterday I sneaked into the ground zero hole.

Actually, I had no idea that this was possible, but I just passed the gate and walked down, and nobody really took notice. The first 3 levels down, everything is still quite messy, but the rest of the 119 below zero floors, are perfectly intact.

I took the speed elevator to go all the way to the bottom floor -121 to enjoy the view. I was a clear day and you could really see far away. all the way down, All of negative -Manhattan, the subways, the negative of the statue of Liberty, the roots of central park, really very nice.

I had a negative-coffee at the cafeteria and the white servant that worked at the counter, really thought I was telling here a joke when I said that all the positive had been blown away 2 years earlier.

Drawing by Hannes Kater. Text by Serge Onnen.

A much less surrealist, but still interesting representation, the National Geographic illustration of New York’s subterranean landscape:

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