[syndicate] The Cave Paintings of Cordwainer Smith

[jeff harrison]

ALPHA RALPHA BOULEVARD 

in 1879, the first Cave with Stone Age paintings 
was discovered at Altamira in northern Spain. they 
were declared to be fakes. today, the Cave is no 
longer open to the general public, who are 
declared to be fakes. name incoming: 

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THE DEAD LADY OF CLOWN TOWN 

the Chauvet Cave, Ardèche valley, December 1994. 
on the floor reposes skulls of an ibex and two wolves, 
also bones of bears. the first part of the Cave has 
red images on the wall, the second, black. the 
dominant animals throughout the Cave are lions, 
mammoths, & rhinoceroses. red handprints. these 
pictures are constantly getting in one another's way. 
not invisible, but material. as a matter of fact, I believe 
they're much afraid of us. I quite agree with you, and 
they shall lose visibility when the time comes. I feel sorry 
for you, said a lioness; I am always sorry for strangers whom 
Fate misguides into the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave. 

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A PLANET NAMED SHAYOL 

the Lascaux Cave has more than 1500 animal pictures, 
but the Lascaux Cave is incapable of re-arranging even 
one of these pictures, tho the sky may drop a star, may 
shift a cloud. thus, the mineral is distinct from the animal. 

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THINK BLUE, COUNT TWO 

the paintings at Bédeilhac 
in the Pyrenees vanished 
completely within six months 
of the Cave's discovery. please, 
please come here on the land, 
I had begged, knowing caves are 
rickety as roofs. there are further 
sights beneath the earth: rocks 
and stones and trees are clouds of 
yellow dust rolling behind the wagon. 

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THE COLONEL CAME BACK FROM NOTHING AT ALL 

the Cave of Niaux is in a limestone deposit 
at the entrance to a valley created by the Ariége river. 
Niaux Cave! the clay is your moon, roots your sunshine. 

 		
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