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To: NWFree

Motel of the Mysteries

https://www.amazon.com/Motel-Mysteries-David-Macaulay/dp/0395284252

It is the year 4022; all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. Carson’s incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization.


9 posted on 01/04/2023 7:47:31 PM PST by FarCenter
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To: FarCenter

He found the bathroom


11 posted on 01/04/2023 7:54:04 PM PST by NWFree (Somebody has to say it 🤪)
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To: FarCenter

I have that picture book, and it’s great.


16 posted on 01/04/2023 8:18:02 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: FarCenter

I remember reading that book decades ago! What a hoot! And it is probably correct.


21 posted on 01/05/2023 8:11:54 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (“No man’s life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.”)
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