tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post6347830740928365832..comments2023-08-22T21:11:59.355+12:00Comments on pohanginapete: Chachapoyas — the houses of the deadpohanginapetehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-14508533577075442992012-01-05T19:42:25.380+13:002012-01-05T19:42:25.380+13:00Anne, thank you :^) Good question about the graffi...Anne, thank you :^) Good question about the graffiti. I'd like to say I'll let you know in a thousand years, but that seems unlikely... ;^)pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-82586502053357985202012-01-05T11:02:10.480+13:002012-01-05T11:02:10.480+13:00As always, Pete, your writing makes one feel as if...As always, Pete, your writing makes one feel as if there with you, seeing what you see, sharing your intelligent and sensitive analysis.<br /><br />Yes, I wonder about graffiti. If it lasts 1000 years will it still be graffiti? Will those people who live then hold it to be sacred?Annehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04979547096244105508noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-83151070234654470152011-10-30T12:25:02.562+13:002011-10-30T12:25:02.562+13:00Zhoen, thanks for that — it makes me realise how m...Zhoen, thanks for that — it makes me realise how much I missed when I rushed through Peru. Still, I saw other things not mentioned, which again suggests just how much the area has to offer.pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-39114236506032987582011-10-30T10:06:17.573+13:002011-10-30T10:06:17.573+13:00Piece on Kuriositas on northern Peru.
http://www....Piece on Kuriositas on northern Peru.<br /><br />http://www.kuriositas.com/2011/10/secluded-secrets-of-northern-peru.htmlZhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-76284517402470448342011-10-28T11:24:35.023+13:002011-10-28T11:24:35.023+13:00Zhoen, you're probably right about the idea of...Zhoen, you're probably right about the idea of <em>not</em> leaving a mark. Still, mostly it saddens me, at least in part because it now seems almost ubiquitous. On this journey I've visited very few places that haven't been marked, and those few places are very special to me.<br /><br />Maureen, I admit to some editing, but the essence of these posts arises from the journals. To me, pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-32438688662234168892011-10-25T13:18:47.624+13:002011-10-25T13:18:47.624+13:00Pete, I like these notes written by hand. They co...Pete, I like these notes written by hand. They convey a sense of being there, right then.<br /><br />“The human bones are but vain lines dawdling, the whole universe a blank mold of stars.”<br />― Jack Kerouac, The Dharma BumsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-16869868943387985152011-10-22T16:45:53.486+13:002011-10-22T16:45:53.486+13:00I think the idea of not leaving one's mark is ...I think the idea of not leaving one's mark is fairly recent, and related to the sheer numbers of people visiting such places. It seems an immutable moral issue, and these days it is. But the Romans left graffiti everywhere, as did most European tourists until perhaps sometime in the early 1900s. Even then, the US national parks have a lot of old names carved on rock formations.Zhoenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03515663141425057088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-46164018084059131582011-10-21T23:50:08.374+13:002011-10-21T23:50:08.374+13:00RR, I'm much better, thank you. It was very mi...RR, I'm much better, thank you. It was very mild and short-lived; the only real downside was that I still felt off-colour for the trip to Kuelap the next day, and found it impossible to photograph well enough to do justice to the place.<br /> The snake and condor symbols were constructed as part of the walls; I guess we'd call them architectural features, so I assume the intention was pohanginapetehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11463792721091291063noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14677243.post-25435023637958849782011-10-21T20:30:30.033+13:002011-10-21T20:30:30.033+13:00The urge to 'mark' a presence at a site is...The urge to 'mark' a presence at a site is very interesting. The original scribblers of the snake and condor were presumably driven by the same urge as the modern Banksies. Perhaps the more remote and frightening the place the greater the wish to proclaim, 'I was here'....and this looks a very remote and frightening place. I'm suffering vertigo in the reading and viewing of Relatively Retiringhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07648407316162715318noreply@blogger.com