Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ...
by anonu on Saturday June 06, 2020 @09:31PM
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One of the stranger things I've read on HN.
Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ...
by derivagral on Saturday June 06, 2020 @11:47PM
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If someone's grown up in the (eastern part?) of the state, the not-very-veiled subtext is quite entertaining with the typical HN cynical bit flipped on.
Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ...
by dustym on Sunday June 07, 2020 @12:53AM
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I agree. This is very weird but also a very subtle and good comment.
Re:New slats make the Golden Gate Bridge sound like a David ...
by chillingeffect on Sunday June 07, 2020 @11:43AM
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Cape-affiliated person here. Currently dealing with multiple issues. There is a powerful coterie of real estate agents, lawyers and regional government members here. The environment is invoked like a playing card to create battles of financial starvation and just as easily overlooked when it would interfere with players' plans. One must be very aware of neighbors' affiliations. It's all sport for the 1%, but families who inherited their parents' properties struggle to hang on to them.
You see... it's the Curse of Chappaquidick. The sound isn't just the breeze passing through turbines. It's the wailing of the immortal soul of Mary Jo Kopechne, her soul mercifully freed from the watery depths but bound to the wind.
Her soul, unable to find rest so long as the negligent and wealthy haunt her resting place, now eternally floats upon the wind... from Chappaquidick into the Vineyard Sound... across Penzance Point... into the Bay, and back out to sea.
But her spirit is not unkind or unfair. She has no discontent for teachers, scientists, artists, or sailors. They cannot hear her. They say... that only the truly wealthy can hear her cries.