Steven L. Taylor is a Professor Emeritus of Political Science and former College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog).
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Whenever I’m hiking and come across something like this I immediately start to unwind time and imagine when those bricks were laid, and who laid them, and then the untold feet that stepped through that threshold into a structure they thought would be there forever. These small, quiet Ozymandias moments always puts me in a thoughtful mood.
@MarkedMan:
Indeed.
I think: what was that place, who laid those bricks, and why?
Why did it it fall into decay?
Large parts of Britain are full of the relics of the Industrial Age, now quietley eroding, that were once the focus of people’s lives.
Like visiting Rome, perhaps, if less imperiously impressive.
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Whenever I’m hiking and come across something like this I immediately start to unwind time and imagine when those bricks were laid, and who laid them, and then the untold feet that stepped through that threshold into a structure they thought would be there forever. These small, quiet Ozymandias moments always puts me in a thoughtful mood.
Just lovely.
Gates of time comes to mind. Quietly provoking.
The once and future. Great find.
Thanks for bringing back a bit of 1968 psychedelica, I needed this.
@MarkedMan:
Indeed.
I think: what was that place, who laid those bricks, and why?
Why did it it fall into decay?
Large parts of Britain are full of the relics of the Industrial Age, now quietley eroding, that were once the focus of people’s lives.
Like visiting Rome, perhaps, if less imperiously impressive.
@al Ameda:
Neil Young, perhaps?
“There’s a Mansion on the Hill”
@JohnSF:
lol … Why not?