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More about sewer system: (1) is about Europe's, as sightseeing attractions, and (2), New York City.
(1) Daniel Michaels, It's Flush Times for the Darkest Stop on the Grand Tour—Europe's Sewers;
If it's Tuesday, it must be Vienna or Paris; Love Among the effluent in Brighton. all Street Journal, May 28, 2011.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704681904576321044058634186.html
Quote:
"And the wellspring of sewer tourism, Paris's Musée des Égouts, plans a makeover to handle rising traffic, which surpasses 100,000 visitors a year. * * * Tours of the city's sewers, already famous from Victor Hugo's 'Les Misérables,' began in 1867 * * * 'It was very chic,' says museum spokeswoman Marie-Christine Amable. 'We had beautiful sewers.'
"Sewer museum officials around Europe say they're flush with visitors now thanks in part to environmental concerns. People are increasingly curious about how their waste is handled.
Note:
(a) The "gutter" in "in the gutter"
(n): "the lowest or most vulgar level or condition of human life"
www.m-w.com
(b) The Third Man
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Third_Man
(Many critics rank it as a masterpiece)
(c) Brighton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton
* History of Brighton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Brighton
(section 1 Etymology)
(c) Duke of York's Picture House, Brighton
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_of_York%27s_Picture_House,_Brighton
(an art house cinema; the oldest continuously operating purpose built cinema in Britain that has retained both its original name and remains largely unaltered; opened in 1910)
(d) redolent (adj; Latin redolent-, present participle of redolēre to emit a scent, from re-, red- + olēre to smell):
"1: exuding fragrance : AROMATIC
2a : full of a specified fragrance : SCENTED <air redolent of seaweed>"
(e) sluice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sluice
(f) égout (masculine; n): "sewer, drain; main, cloaca, ditch"
(g) Les Misérables
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Mis%C3%A9rables
(an 1862 French novel; widely considered one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century)
Quote:
"Valjean escapes through the sewers, carrying Marius' body on his shoulders. He manages to evade a police patrol. He eventually finds a gate to exit the sewers, but to his disappointment, the gate is locked. Valjean suddenly hears a voice behind him, and he turns and sees Thénardier. Valjean recognizes him but his composure is calm, for he perceives that Thénardier does not recognize him due to his dirty appearance. Thinking Valjean to be a simple murderer, Thénardier offers to open the gate for money. He then proceeds to search Valjean and Marius' pockets. While doing this, he secretly tears off a piece of Marius’ coat so he can later find out his identity. Finding only thirty francs, Thénardier reluctantly takes the money and opens the gate, letting Valjean out.
(h) noisome (adj; Middle English noysome, from noy annoyance, alteration of anoi, from Anglo-French anui, from anuier to harass, annoy):
"offensive to the senses and especially to the sense of smell <noisome garbage>"
(i) The Honeymooners was a situation comedy (1955-1956), whose character Ed Norton worked for the sewer department of New York City.
He was in the left of this photo:
http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,1213419,00.html
(j) The report the talked about a proposal at Brighton's "cavernous red-brick storm drain" which the woman described as: "It's really quite beautiful and cathedral-like there. It does still smell."
Brighton sewer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brighton_sewers
(k) wing tip (n):
"1a : the edge or outer margin of a bird's wing
2: a toe cap having a point that extends back toward the throat of the shoe and curving sides that extend toward the shank
3: a shoe having a wing tip"
Definitions 2 and 3 fit the bill.
* This is a pair of shoes with wing tips.
http://theshoebuff.com/news/bathing-ape-regal-wing-tip-shoe/
(l) spelunker (n; Latin spelunca cave, from Greek spēlynx):
"one who makes a hobby of exploring and studying caves"
(2) Alan Feuer, The Wilderness Below Your Feet. New York Times, Jan 2, 2011
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/02/nyregion/02underground.html?_r=1&scp=4&sq=sewer%20storm%20%22new%20York%22&st=cse
("a taxing, baffling, five-day journey into New York’s underground, the purpose of which, its planners said, was to expose the city’s skeleton, to render visible its invisible marvels")
Quote:
"A raccoon! Huge, healthy and darting around a corner. No rats, though; a surprise.
Note:
(a) The report was about underground infrastructure of New York City, inclugin sewers and tubnnels (mostly for trains that were abandoned or fell into disuse).
To read the portions about sewers only, read
(i) page 1 to top of page 2,
(ii) page 4 (in four paragraphs: 5:22 pm (Queens sewer), "Friday, 12:13 am 543 Canal Street, Manhattan," 5:21 am (sewer under Greene Street) and "10:06 am Brookville Park, Queens" (storm drain))
(b) The "funk" in "a dull ammoniac funk"
(n; probably ultimately from French dialect (Picard) funquer to give off smoke):
"a strong offensive smell"
(c) archway (n): "a way or passage under an arch; also : an arch over a passage"
(d) d'oh (interjection; First Known Use 1993):
"—used to express sudden recognition of a foolish blunder or an ironic turn of events"
(e) Minos is a mythical king in Greek mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minos
His role in
Inferno (Dante)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inferno_(Dante)
(Beyond the first circle, all of those condemned for active, deliberately willed sin are judged by the serpentine Minos, who sentences each soul to one of the lower eight circles by wrapping his tail around himself a corresponding number of times)
(f) The "boom" in "sound boom"
(n; Dutch, tree, beam):
"a long more or less horizontal supporting arm or brace (as for holding a microphone)"
-------------------------------Separately
Mireya Navarro, $1.5 Billion Plan Would Cut Sewage Flow Into City Waters. New York Times,
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/science/earth/29sewage.html?scp=2&sq=sewer%20storm%20%22new%20York%22&st=cse
Quote:
"The plan is intended to block the overflow of untreated sewage and storm water into bodies of water * * * The problem of overflow from sewers is common around the country, and the city’s proposed solutions parallel approaches that are being tried in other cities.
"City officials said that the natural features like plantings would help reduce sewer overflows by 40 percent by 2030 and reduce the city’s sewer management costs by $2.4 billion over 20 years, helping to keep water bills down for ratepayers. Up to 30 billion gallons of overflows from the city’s sewer system, which carries both sanitary sewage and storm water from the streets, end up in the waterways each year. * * * The goal, Mr. [Cas] Holloway[, the city’s environmental protection commissioner] said, is for the city’s landscape to absorb about 12 billion gallons of untreated runoff and wastewater a year that now fouls up the waterways. 'You need to make the city more permeable,' he said.
"Environmental groups say that sewer overflows are the biggest water quality problem in the region, keeping many waterways from meeting federal standards for fishing, swimming and a healthy habitat for wildlife.
Note: There is no need to read the rest of the report.
【 在 choi 的大作中提到: 】
: (1) I recommend a comprehensive cover story.
: 泡汤城市: 地下不通，地上则痛。大雨浸泡的不仅是人民和车子，也报括城市的规划理念。南都周刊, May 31, 2011
: http://past.nbweekly.com/Print/776.shtml
: , which is made up of four articles
: (a) 都市水患 致命的约会: 李淑芬从清远赶来广州和男
: (以下引言省略...)
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