I hung in the bottom of a Roman cistern too.
14.03.2004 - 4:23 p.m.
Yesterday I climbed on some Roman ruins in Amman. This isn't gloating or anything, cos the dirty Romans left their mess all over the Middle East and Europe. I mean, it seems half the towns in Jordan have an old Roman guardhouse or mile marker or farmhouse or something older than anyone you'll ever meet, so the noveltey of some faded stones isn't all that gigantic.
The thing that makes me smile is I'm touching the sweat of some cat's labor from centuries ago. Someone prolly spent a...
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Editor's interlude...
Ok, I just put my headphones on cos this dude on the other side of the net cafe is listening to Bryan Adams and that's not something I'm capable of overhearing. It's inexplicible but Jordanians really dig Bryan Adams. He played a show in Amman the second week I was here and it got a ton of hype on the teevee. Bizarre. That and my host family has satallite tv and we watched an episode of Buffy last night. You have no idea.
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...week chiseling or hammering his teeth to make the Roman letters real pretty on the tumbled stone underneath the columns of the fallen fort.
I traced the letters with my index finger and let my connection with the past go at that. Afterall, when visiting ancient monuments - Egyptian, Mayan, Roman, whatever - one must take into romantic account it was prolly constructed with a high amount of slave, conqured nationals or indentured labor. Not to be overly catagorical, but I can't quite think the conditions of the working poor were that much of a concern for those at the top. And exploiting the poor isn't all the McAwsome, you know?
Yeah, but I'm still going to Petra every other weekend when I reach Al Rajif. Oh yeah, if you like camping (Leland), I've got some of the planet's best camping outside my back door. Y'all should come over and check it out.
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Letzter Funf
In pursuit of brevity. - 20.07.2007
Re: Let's all watch a girl get beaten to death. - 14.07.2007
We're not getting there. - 14.07.2007
Somehow I lost all my Dropkick Murpheys. And this on the eve of my chowder va-ca-tion. - 02.07.2007
I need to write him a letter. - 21.04.2007
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