And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Every time I see something like this, a house sitting on the side of a cliff or a monastery perched on the tip of some crag I wonder just how they were able to build there to begin with. Hauling materials up sheer cliff walls or over snow and ice covered mountain passes and then workmen hanging by ropes and assembling all of it into something liveable and often beautiful is a testement to human ingenuity and persistence.
Also, living at the lower levels while your upper level neighbors are pouring out the night buckets give a very real emphasis to "upper" and "lower" classes. I hope they stagger the arrangement to allow for "seepage" to pass by rather than puddle on the veranda though it looks to me like there is definite overlap for some of them.
I guess that must be easier than carving caves out of the cliff face, but dang...I'd think it would be easier to find somewhere else to live!
ReplyDeleteWhere does the sewage go?
ReplyDeleteZoom in on the steaks on the rock.
DeleteRock steaks? WTF?
DeleteThat should probably have been "streaks".
DeleteStench on the rocks.
DeleteThat was my first thought: "The stench must be astounding."
DeleteA real Cliff Hanger.
ReplyDeleteEvery time I see something like this, a house sitting on the side of a cliff or a monastery perched on the tip of some crag I wonder just how they were able to build there to begin with. Hauling materials up sheer cliff walls or over snow and ice covered mountain passes and then workmen hanging by ropes and assembling all of it into something liveable and often beautiful is a testement to human ingenuity and persistence.
ReplyDeleteAlso, living at the lower levels while your upper level neighbors are pouring out the night buckets give a very real emphasis to "upper" and "lower" classes. I hope they stagger the arrangement to allow for "seepage" to pass by rather than puddle on the veranda though it looks to me like there is definite overlap for some of them.