For awhile now, I’ve been confused by TFL telling me to get on the Circle line from Shepherds Bush Market station. “Oh dear TFL,” I thought, “you’ve gone mad.” Indulgently, I ignored this phenomenon until yesterday when some idle ponderings regarding the tube map led me to notice this.
1) It doesn’t seem an overwhelming benefit to be able to get to Hammersmith on the Circle line,
2) Circles do not have tails,
3) So which demonic sigil is it that our all-new non-circular Circle will be scribing across the landscape?
I am, obviously, excited by the idea that this will finally activate Westfield’s giant robot mode.
blimey, a giant spiral @ sign to relieve the H&C traffic to the wood lane stop.
possibly the circle so-called is beginning to unfold itself in a dimension orthogonal to its current plane, to become a VORTEX or even a HELIX — that will spiral or helterskelter its passengers down to the FIERY CORE OF THE EARTH hurrah
as above, so below:
http://www.johncoulthart.com/pantechnicon/kabbalah.html
Does this mean you can’t get from Notting Hill Gate to Euston without changing?
lonepilgrim that is AWESOME
re 6: yep – originally done for Alan Moore’s ‘Promethea’
X marks the eventual centre of the spiral. Oxford Circ = hellmouth.
I think the campaign to change the name to the @ line or something else as it is clearly now (never was) a Circle.
Suggestions on this thread and we will do a Poll tomorrow.
let’s see if hot linking is ok
It was at least a loop (indeed, a “circular;” I was going to ramble on about the etymology of the ‘Circle’ line as opposed to a circular line but realised this was of interest to NO ONE) before, now it’s the zone 1/2 squiggle. Actually, this is another point: Kensington & Chelsea aren’t going to be happy that us Zone Two ruffians are encroaching on their line.
I did wonder if there was any sort of plan to join up Hammersmith and Gloucester Road but there doesn’t seem to be any evidence of it on the internets, if there is.
That’s because Gloucester Road is a full vertical mile exactly below Hammersmith
This is kind of awesome in ways I can’t quite explain…
note to admin: this seemed an appropriate place to link to this site – although it is so awesome it almost deserves a thread of it’s own:
http://www.maproom.co.uk/maps/anagrammap.gif
I want to live in this city and visit Aleph & Tentacles – where Borges meets Lovecraft
You see so many ‘comedy’ variations on the London tube map that they start to get a bit boring, but that one is indeed rather great.
PS There used to be a bookshop in E&C shopping centre called Tlön Books, so there’s something to yr comparison.
more subterranean glyphs here:
http://www.animalsontheunderground.com/