Wednesday, April 27, 2005
The aqueduct clay has not yet dried (I added water to soften the edges). It consists of a hill through which a green straw runs as conduit, emptying into a sort of tank (castellum) before proceeding to public collection tanks, private residences, or imperial and industrial buildings. I inserted an opaque straw through one side of the tank (which could be enclosed in a vault, though I left it cut away) to indicate how water flowed to the city through smaller pipes. At the end (terminus) of the green straw in the castellum I placed an upside-down Coke bottle lid, as something similarly would have caught the water and allowed it to spin, thereby slackening flow before moving it along for public consumption.
At one side of the castellum genuflects a pink-clad ninja man, who represents the common water thief. Claudius (beginning in the fifties A.D.) established patrols to dismantle illegal taps, which occurred rampantly because premiums were required for private delivery, which, of course, could only be afforded by elites and imperials- thus repressing the plebes.
Rah-rah subversion!
Anyhow, tonight I need to write essentially the above in paper format, three to four pages' worth. Then I'll have time to play with my new Japanese book, which teaches the language through an examination of actual manga. I bought it after class via Vattis annual birthday funding. With it I also purchased the requisite Ancient Greek-English dictionary for the course I'll take next fall. The girl at the counter raised her eyebrows, no less because I was listening loudly to Rammstein as I paid.
[Lauree Frances Keith concluded this diatribe at 1:09 PM]