Showing posts with label Knossos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Knossos. Show all posts

Friday, April 6, 2012

Flush Toilets

Remember that old "Star Trek" episode about the planet about to be burnt to toast by its dying sun? Our lads hustle thence to save the population, only to find that all have already saved themselves by going back in time to a place of their choosing. (All save one.)

Suppose that were your option today. Where would you go, what and who would you take with you, and how would you prepare? Why there and then?

It's an interesting proposition, isn't it?

At the metaphoric level, it makes me think of survivalists. At the level of imagination, it fascinates me. My first thought is Knossos, Crete, in its prime (of course). After all, they had flush toilets.