Decarie-Raimbault sewer excavation. Montreal, 1958

Here’s a little quote that I discovered the other day that I’m quite fond of.  Taken from the book City A-Z, which conveniently enough, can be browsed through online.

The sewers are the hidden underground beyond time. Unlike the carefully counted, quantified, rationalized into the time-space orders of the above-ground city, the sewers are the randomness of what is left over. These are mythic bowels of the city, repository of unacknowledged histories. This is where all sorts of family dirt ends up.

*Insert obligatory “sorry for the lack up updates” statement here*

A fresh post is coming up tomorrow and it’ll be far better than this one, I promise.