tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post8266203019867776100..comments2024-03-28T13:03:59.666-07:00Comments on Tillalala Chronicles: ElevatorsJohn Olsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07873070309448793816noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-11533963751805845942010-07-09T20:58:00.539-07:002010-07-09T20:58:00.539-07:00David, yes, Magellan circumnavigated the globe in ...David, yes, Magellan circumnavigated the globe in an elevator. Pressed the Asia button, absolutely. There is a panel in Seattle that offers Corinth, The Underworld, French Revolution, and Hesperides. <br /><br />I do remember as a kid in Minneapolis men dressed in snappy uniforms who not only pressed the buttons, but announced floors, things on sale, the general news of the day, and passages from Homer.<br /><br />Potter, the first one to shoot an elevator through the roof of a building wins the outer rings of Saturn and an all expenses paid vacation to the NASA space center in Florida. I think the trick is to eject it through the roof of the building so that it parachutes gently onto Orcas Island.John Olsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07873070309448793816noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-64924066423514719692010-07-06T19:22:55.483-07:002010-07-06T19:22:55.483-07:00Hey John, An elevator repair guy once told me that...Hey John, An elevator repair guy once told me that if an elevator cable snapped, the result would more likely be that the elevator would go soaring to the the top of the building and possibly through the roof due to the counterweight being so much heavier than the elevator car and something or other about the section of cable most likely to snap. But there are apparently a number of backup safety measures to prevent any of that, unlike with deep sea oil welling operations. I sometimes imagine that happening when I get on an elevator, flying through the roof of the building like Willy Wonka and Charlie and Charlie's Grandpa at the end of Charlie and the Choclate Factory or Willie Wonka and the Choclate Factory as I guess the movie is called.steve potternoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-48856519621150306982010-07-06T08:24:07.206-07:002010-07-06T08:24:07.206-07:00Geez, you've top-posted atop this great Pongia...Geez, you've top-posted atop this great Pongian poem-essay already (July 6th now)!<br /><br />Do you ever get into an elevator with an operator anymore?<br /><br />I don't get to NYC much anymore, so I don't know if it's different there, but out here in California the only elevator operators I know about are in the State Capitol building (Sacramento, natch). They are very polite, and appear to have done the work for years. <br /><br />I tend to offer to push the button myself but they insist on doing their work. <br /><br />It has to be an odd job, operating an elevator.Steven Famahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13733977161680651117noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1407034878188607881.post-29288113615879390472010-07-06T04:27:12.641-07:002010-07-06T04:27:12.641-07:00Didn't Magellan circumnavigate the world in an...Didn't Magellan circumnavigate the world in an elevator? Didn't he just push the Asia button?<br /><br />Books are to computers as stairs are to elevators. Books are kept in bookcases, stairs in staircases. There are flights of stairs and flights of books. Why just the other day I saw the complete works of Isaac Bashevis Singer V-ing across the sky, flapping their covers.<br /><br />A book of elliptical, ambiguous poems is like stairs: the reader has to make an effort to climb them. A book of "accessible" poems, on the other hand, is like an escalator: the reader has nothing to do but passively absorb the information conveyed. <br /><br />Why elevator rather than depressor? Doesn't the contraption go down as often as it goes up?<br /><br />Ever see Elevator in the Brain Hotel, George Romero's sequel to Season of the Witch? Great soundtrack by The 13th Floor Elevators. Orpheus writes down surrealist poetry intoned by a talking elevator. Later, elevating Eurydice up from Hades, he looks at her reflection in the brass panel, and she disappears.<br /><br />I bet an octopus with a knife in each tentacle could hijack an elevator.Delia Psychehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03020484032408233158noreply@blogger.com