munity information publications in the country. They are on to something new, the relation of continuing education, everyday information needs and libraries Tire book is a 4oo-page annotated bibliography containing free ro moderately expensive materials on subjects ranging from'money management, to health, to aging, free time, jobs, laws and government, home repair. The annotations are very brief, and the book probably best survives as a library reference tool, where it should be right there with Books in print. *SJ Industrial Archeology, Thomas A. Sade, 152 pp., October 1976, $18.95 from (check your library): Stephen Greene Press Fessenden Road at Indian Flat Brattleboro, VT 05301 The opening wedge (parting shot of the industrial age?) of a new field of study, extending the "national monument" concept to industry, the discoVery, investigation, recording, surveying and sometimes the preservation of histori caliy significant industrial sites and structures formerly ignored. This big picture book tours every region in the U.S., looking at and describing such "artifacts" as dams, bridges, mills, mines mines, blast furnaces, factories, water works, power plants, terminai buildings, machine shops, windmills, gashouses, - oil rigs, grain elevators and more. All are representative of America's first step as an industrial nation. Utteriy fascinating for the feelings it can give you about America's own "disappearing middle" in technology, as Schumacherphrases it. You can also join' The Society for Industrial Room 5020 National Museum Technology of History & Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC 20560 -Lj DISIJWATER TEA Archeology In the articles on gourmet eating in the last issue we inadvertently forgot one of the best examples of greywater recycling-the traditional Zen practice of drinking "dishwater." At the end of a meal, tea is poured into a person's largest eating bowl, swished around to clean it out, poured into any other bowls to clean them and then drunk. Drinking dishwarer? Ughl Bur all it is ls soup or tea. However you want to call it, it's just food, it's nutritious, and it's an-elegantly simple process of taking care of our own cleanup. -TB May 7977 RAIN Page "On one.of.these planets a mollusklike crearure, living in the coastal shallows, acquired a propensity to drift in irs blat-like . shell on the sea's surface, thus keeping in touch with its drifting vegeiable food. As the ages prr't.d lts ,t.ii became berter adapted ^to navigatiol. Mere drifting was supplemented by means of a crude sail, a membrane extending f.om the crea- .ture's back. In time this nautiloid typs proliTerated into a host of species. Some of these remained minute, but some found size advantageous and developed into living ships. One of these became the intelligent masrer of this grcat world. "The hull was a rigid, streamlined vessel, ihaped much as the nineteenth-century clippcr in her prime and larger than our largest whale. At the rear a tentacle or fin deveioped into a rudder, which was somerime s used as a propcllcr, lile a fish.'s tail. But though all these species could navigate undcr their own power to some extent, their normal mJans of longdistance locomotion was their grcat spread of sail. The simpie memtrranes of the ancestral type hadbecome a system of parchment{ike sails and bony masts and spars, under voluntary muscular control. Similarity to a ship was increased by the the downward-looking eyes, one on each side of the prow. The mainmast-heat also bore eyes, for searching the horizon. An organ of magnetic sensitiviiy in the brain af"forded a reliable means of orientation. At thc fore end of the vessel were two l^ong manipulatory tentacles, which during locomotion were folded snugly to the flanks. ln use they forme<J a very serviceable pair of arms. ". . . It was a strange experience to cnter the mind of an intelligent ship, to see the foam circling under one 's own nosc as the vessel plunged through the wavei, to taste the bittcr or delicious currents streaming past one's flanks, to feel the pressure of air on the sails as one beat up against the breez_e, to hear beneath the water-line the rush ind murmur of distant shoals of fishes, and indeed actually to bear rhc sca-botrom,s configuration by means of the echoes that it cast up to thc underwater ears. It was strange and tcrrifying to bc caught in a hurricane, to feel the masts straining and the sails thre"atening to split, while the hull was battercd by thc small but furious waves of that massive planet. It was strange , roo, to watch. other grear living ships, as they ploughed tf,eir way, heeled over, adjusted the set of their ylttow or russct saiis to the wind's variations; and very strange it was to rcalize that these were not man-made objects but themselvcs conscious and purposeful. glaf Stapleton, from Stannaker
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