| | Places | States | Engines of Desire | |||||
| Explanations | If I were still there I could explain to you who I really was | Fear | There's nothing here for me, just the dull roar of the engines winding down at the end of the day | |||||
| Memories | Frustrated Love | tears | over | the | Twin Turntables | spin like rotors | ||
| rippling | ||||||||
| Memories | Sleep | roar | Helicopters | sound like deep trance | ||||
| of | ||||||||
Explanations
| An oil rig | a return from | the | |||||
| an escape from | the clarity of work | engine | ||||||
| the | ||||||||
| rotors | ||||||||
| tearing | ||||||||
| the | ||||||||
| air | ||||||||
| and | ||||||||
| shaking | ||||||||
| Elemental | States | me | ||||||
| Processes | Dominate | to | ||||||
| sleep | ||||||||
| and I awake to the sound | of fuel being dumped | to the watery mountains | ||||||
| to the grey light | reflecting | in the North Sea | ||||||
The concept of "ley lines" is generally thought of in relation to Alfred Watkins, but the stimulus and background for the concept is attributed to the English astronomer Norman Lockyer . [3] [4] [5] On 30 June 1921, Watkins visited Blackwardine in Herefordshire , and went riding a horse near some hills in the vicinity of Bredwardine , when he noted that many of the footpaths there seemed to connect one hilltop to another in a straight line. [6] He was studying a map when he noticed places in alignment. "The whole thing came to me in a flash", he later told his son. [7] It has been suggested that Watkin's experience stemmed from faint memories of an account in September 1870 by William Henry Black given to the British Archaeological Association in Hereford titled Boundaries and Landmarks , in which he speculated that "Monuments exist marking grand geometrical lines which cover the whole of Western Europe". [8] Watkins believed that, in ancie...
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