Second Site
by Paul Schütze

Second Site by Paul Schütze
Year: 1997
Overall rank: 84,314th

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Top albums of 1997 (1,343rd)

Top albums of the 1990s (12,446th)

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The Dial Is Only Visible By Starlight

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Every Day At Noon The Sun Shines Through These Apertures For The Space Of About A Minute

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The Image Of The Sun Indicates The Sun's Position As It Passes Through A Hole In The Concurve Surface

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There Is A Brass Pointer Fitted With Sights And Pivoted To The Centre Of The Circle By Which Altitude Observations Are Made

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The Chamber Is No Longer Accessible To Visitors

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Access To Any Part Of The Engine Is By Steps Which Offer Vantage Points For Various Readings

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Suspended In The Hum Of History

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9.

Originally Cross Wires Stretched Across Each Hemisphere, East To West And North To South

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The Ramped Stair To The North Of The Two Drums Vanishes At Thirty-two Feet

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These Steps Enable The Observer To See All Aspects Of The Brass Calibration Below

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12.

There Is A Huge Calibrated Sundial On Each Of Its Sides

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13.

This Chamber Is Filled With Garden Tools And Broken Furniture

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14.

The Mosaic Of Starlight Slips Back Like The Lid Of An Opening Eye

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This Engine Is Primarily A Calculator, Though Altitudes May Be Observed Using The Sighting Bar Fitted To The Back

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It Is Inscribed With Concentric Circles, At The Centre Of Which Lies A Pointer

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The Calibrated Parts Are Raised On Three-foot Pillars

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18.

The Pink Masonry Charges The Twilight With A Faint Sound

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Another Slope With Stars For The Reading Of Figures

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This Engine Is Now Only Visible In Twilight

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21.

Here Is An Immense Brass Circle Suspended Vertically From Stone Supports

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22.

Two Hemispheres Representing The Sphere Of Heaven Comprise The Two Halves Of This Engine

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23.

This Wall Describes Accurately The North/South Meridian

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There Are Pillars At The Centre Of Each Circular Wall Each Open To The Sky

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The Sky Has Shaped This Place

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Here I Find A Central Iron Pole With Hooks Facing To The North, South, East And West

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A Shadow Is Cast To The West Before Noon

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The Shadow Can Fall In The Vacant Sector Of A Drum

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Days & Nights Are Measured Here, And In The Measuring Seem Longer, Suspended Somehow

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The Whole Brass Circle Can Be Revolved Around Its Vertical Diameter So That Altitude Observations Can Be Taken Of Any Object At Any Time

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A Lofty But Narrow Chamber Is Contrived In The Thickness Of The Walls And Access Is Gained From A Door Opening From The Masonry Platform On Which The Engine Stands

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A Further Series Of Steps Is Only Visible During The Vernal Equinox

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Hold The Machine In The Vertical Plane

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Visible Portions Of The Celestial Sphere Are Represented By This Map Which Has A Movable Elliptic Which Pivots At The Point Representing The Pole

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To Move Through These Structures Is To Set Them In Motion

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The Altitude Of The Body Observed Is Given While Observing The Vertically Hanging Bar Through The Two Brass Rings

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A Shadow Is Cast To The East After Noon

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These Calibrations Are No Longer Clearly Visible

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Another Flight Of Observation Steps And The Sense Of Quiet Rotation As I Ascend

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I Study The Vaults Of A Shell In Which We Float

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Twenty-seven Degrees, Thirty-seven Seconds

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The Roofs Of The Enclosed Drums Are Implied By Shadows

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The Floor And Walls Are Calibrated To Read Altitude & Azimuth

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These Are The Cool Engines Of Celestial Map-making

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Here Is The Supreme Engine

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The Sun Seen Through The Pair Of Brass Rings Is Used By The Bar To Indicate The Time From Sunrise Until Sunrise

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A Pointer Indicates On Three Arms: West, North And East

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Here Was The Supreme Engine

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50.

Engine Of Amplitude Has A Function Which Is No Longer Known

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51.

This Engine Is A Rectangular Brass Plate

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52.

Second Prologue

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Once Complete Engine Is Formed By Two Differently Incomplete Parts Which Combined Provide Total Reference

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At One Moment In The Year The Sun Shines Through A Hole In The Wall On To A Calibrated Arc

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The Stone Dish Is Slotted With Figures & Shadow

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The Positions And Altitudes Of Heavenly Bodies Maybe Gauged With This Engine

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Some Steps Ascend Past Markings To A Platform

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The Central Pillars Are Five Feet Three Inches In Diameter

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On The East Face Are Inscribed Two Quadrants Of Twenty-feet Radius

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The Plants Will Steal This Engine When We Have Gone

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The Shadow Is Cast North/South At Noon By An Iron Pin

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A Shadow Is Cast To The East After Noon

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These Steps Are Worn To A Ramp And Lead Nowhere

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All The Lead Calibrations Are Warm To The Touch

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It Is Only Necessary To Engrave A Scale Of The Tangents Along The Rim To Obtain A Direct Reading Of The Declination

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The Lead Calibrations Are Poisonous To The Touch

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This Is The North Pointer Engine

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The Rim Of Each Hemisphere Is A Horizon Divided Into Degrees And Minutes

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Here Is A Room To Divide The Sun Like An Orange

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Sighting Bars Were Placed In The Slots Within The Chamber, But None Remain Now

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The Sound Of Insects Here Studs The Night Like A Thousand Fizzing Stars

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Access By Observers To Each Engine Is Gained By An Imperfection Which Differs From One To Another

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These Structures Are Made In Receipt Of Starlight

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75.

Seven Of The Eight Rings Indicate Signs

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I Have Observed And Measured For Seven Years

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The Heavens Were Spherical

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There Are Four Of These Arcs, Two In Each Chamber

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These Are Instruments Fuelled By Shadow, And Engines Propelled By The Sliding Of The Skies

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The Stars Are Ranged Across The Inner Shell Of A Vast Hollow Sphere In Which Hung The Earth

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All The Gardens Will Concur. Here Is The Mixed Engine

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85.

I Will Build Other Gardens, Other Engines

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And The Light Falls On The Circular Arcs

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Beneath This Circle Is An Arc Of Masonry Steps For The Convenience Of Observes

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Threads Can Be Pegged To The Centre Of Each Quadrant And Semicircle To Enable Observation

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Here Is A Huge Vertical Right-Angled Triangle Made Of Stone

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These Arcs Are Also Accessible By Numerous Flights Of Stairs

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We Are Closer To The Sun Now

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On The West Face Is Described A Semicircle Of Nineteen-Feet, Ten-Inch Radius

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Into This Chamber No Ray Of Light Can Find Its Way Except Through Two Small Squares High In The South Wall

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94.

The Movement Of The Engines Produces A Scent

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Pointing Towards The Pole An Iron Pin Is Fixed At Right Angles To The Centre Of A Dial

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Some Of The Calibrations Are Now Submerged Beneath The Ground And Cannot Be Read

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This Room Is A Lidless Drum

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Near The Bottom Of The Wall Facing The South Side Of The Eastern Hemisphere There Is A Hole

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There Are Arcs Made Of Marble Which Are Calibrated With Inlaid Lead In Degrees And Minutes

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102.

I Have Seen Charts Sent From Portugal But They Are Flawed And Full Of Error

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Overall rank: 84,314th | 1990s rank: 12,446th | 1997 rank: 1,343rd

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2026	cicadelic	Top 100 Music Albums of 1997	55/100	2
1997	The Wire	Top Albums of 1997	31/50	2
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