Storm Symbols
It's easy to forge myths.
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Newsgroup: soc.culture.singapore
Date: 22 Oct 1995 10:38:41 GMT
Listen, my children, and I shall tell you the ghost of a tale... a tale so dark and shrouded in mystery that only the elite know of its existence at all (yes, prepare to join the elite).
Way back in the 1950s, a young lawyer named Harry used to hang out with his LibSoc friends and suchlike others. He also drank lots of beer (and once had to be swept out of a house by my grandmother, who was more a Baba Naga than a Baba Yaga). In such a mood as succeeds such a sweeping statement, he came one day to Bukit Timah.
In those days, the Tin Hill was an even wilder place than it is now. (Actually, there are precious few vestiges of the wilderness left in Bukit Timah nowadays.) But the storms were almost the same: raging titans that swept up and down the Indian and Pacific Oceans, stubbed their toes on the main rockhill of Singapore, and cursed in blinding torrents of tears.
Even in those dim and uncertain days, Harry had an uncommon perspicacity. He saw the thunderheads and heard the thunder rumbling, and observed how a whole island could be prostrated by the storms that rolled down from the mighty Hill of Tin. And as he mused, he heard a deep and distant voice in the thundering. It seemed to say, "If you *rumble rumble*, I will give you *rumble* kingdoms *rumble* power *rumble rumble*." To this day, only Harry himself (and maybe his redoubtable wife) know exactly what monstrous compact was struck upon the Hill of Tin.
Politics grew upon our tiny isle. Forest was cut back, kampongs were levelled. And through it all, many tried to unravel the labyrinthine secret of the Hill of Tin. What was the secret symbol of the Titans on the Hill?
Interested parties guessed it might be a triangle (hill-shaped), or a hammer (traditional for thunder gods), or a lightning-bolt. The power on the Hill of Tin ensured the prosperity of those who chose aright. And to this day, despite the many broken promises and lawyerly evasions with which a certain lawyer dealt with the ancient powers, the sacred symbol remains dominant over Singapore.
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Newsgroup: soc.culture.singapore
Date: 22 Oct 1995 10:38:41 GMT
Listen, my children, and I shall tell you the ghost of a tale... a tale so dark and shrouded in mystery that only the elite know of its existence at all (yes, prepare to join the elite).
Way back in the 1950s, a young lawyer named Harry used to hang out with his LibSoc friends and suchlike others. He also drank lots of beer (and once had to be swept out of a house by my grandmother, who was more a Baba Naga than a Baba Yaga). In such a mood as succeeds such a sweeping statement, he came one day to Bukit Timah.
In those days, the Tin Hill was an even wilder place than it is now. (Actually, there are precious few vestiges of the wilderness left in Bukit Timah nowadays.) But the storms were almost the same: raging titans that swept up and down the Indian and Pacific Oceans, stubbed their toes on the main rockhill of Singapore, and cursed in blinding torrents of tears.
Even in those dim and uncertain days, Harry had an uncommon perspicacity. He saw the thunderheads and heard the thunder rumbling, and observed how a whole island could be prostrated by the storms that rolled down from the mighty Hill of Tin. And as he mused, he heard a deep and distant voice in the thundering. It seemed to say, "If you *rumble rumble*, I will give you *rumble* kingdoms *rumble* power *rumble rumble*." To this day, only Harry himself (and maybe his redoubtable wife) know exactly what monstrous compact was struck upon the Hill of Tin.
Politics grew upon our tiny isle. Forest was cut back, kampongs were levelled. And through it all, many tried to unravel the labyrinthine secret of the Hill of Tin. What was the secret symbol of the Titans on the Hill?
Interested parties guessed it might be a triangle (hill-shaped), or a hammer (traditional for thunder gods), or a lightning-bolt. The power on the Hill of Tin ensured the prosperity of those who chose aright. And to this day, despite the many broken promises and lawyerly evasions with which a certain lawyer dealt with the ancient powers, the sacred symbol remains dominant over Singapore.
etched with acid at 2:21:00 am
1 Comments:
So much for subtlety, that was kinda overt...
- Avenging Angels
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