Word: subterraneanly
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...spun inwards, so far, far inside. He brought it all back home to himself, back into the smoke rings of his mind. The wind? The sea? Call it the unconscious. "I'm ready for to fade into my own parade." A pipeline laid deep to private magic swirling ships, subterranean homesick blues, dreams. to 115, Desolation Row, flickering vision lights of Johanna, Memphis mobile mind traps and all those psychic lowlands where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes...
...finds chaos. That is no revelation. Neither is it his prophetic nightmare. There are all these facts, you see: Johnny in the basement, medicine, pavement, a man in a trenchcoat, parking meters, vandals and handles. They are real. They make sense. All right, put them together. Metallic, impenetrable chaos. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Don't string the facts from the clothes line pole of conventional conceptions, don't order them with pliers of cause and effect. Just put them together--and they'll scare you. His experiment suggests how easy it is to let out ragged wild, numb wild thoughts...
...also reminds him that "chessboard Babylon was so depressing for Nebuchadnezzar's highland wife that he had to build her an artificial knobbly mountain-the famous 'Hanging Gardens.' " Noting that Brasilia's TV tower dominates the city while the main body of the cathedral is subterranean, Toynbee observes that "technology is the dominant element in present-day life; religion is retreating to the catacombs again...
...Snorkel. Pereira's plan looks toward the construction of five new airline terminals-all underground and equipped with their own subterranean garages-at the west end of the airport. Their probable occupants will be Pan American, TWA, United, American and Continental...
Siegel's discovery poses a fascinating possibility that has long intrigued other scientists. The earth's once ammonia-and methane-rich atmosphere has since been recast through the release of subterranean gases and the evolution of oxygen-producing photosynthetic plants. Siegel believes that the Kakabekia-like organism has survived for "a billion years or more" by living on ammonia from the breakdown of proteins in earth. Citing spectroscopic analyses of Jupiter, which indicate that its atmosphere still contains large amounts of ammonia, Siegel theorizes that space explorers on Jupiter may some day meet living relatives of his discovery...