(urth) The Lochage's Rant...

Steven Bowen McQuaryq at Comcast.net
Tue Aug 31 11:14:01 PDT 2010


Cobbles are stones used to build the streets.  The 'chalk on the  
wall' imagery suggests grafitti to me.  Pretty obvious.  He uses the  
grafitti idea to speak to the illegal nature of the changes.  The  
inability for the authorities to enforce even simple boundary lines  
like streets.

Steve
On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:31 PM, Ryan Dunn wrote:

> I think I understand the second part. I'm not sure what taking up  
> the cobbles in the dark means exactly, but this has something to do  
> with clever people claiming land as their own by stealing it in the  
> dark? Anyhow...
>
> More importantly, what does he mean by the city changing every  
> night? And how is writing chalked on a wall the right metaphor  
> here. Is he saying there are so many people, that every day a line  
> of buildings might appear, while another might crumble?

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