（外文电子版资料）Lafferty, R A - Continued on the Next Rock.pdf

file:///G|/Program%20Files/eMule/Incoming/R.A.%20Lafferty%20-%20Continued%20on%20the%20Next%20Rock.txt VERSION 1.0 dtd 032600 CONTINUED ON NEXT ROCK R. A. Lafferty Up in the Big Lime country there is an upthrust, a chimney rock that is half fallen against a newer hill. It is formed of what is sometimes called Dawson Sandstone and is interlaced with tough shell. It was formed during the glacial and recent ages in the bottomlands of Crow Creek and Green River when these streams (at least five times) were mighty rivers. The chimney rock is only a little older than mankind, only a little younger than grass. Its formation had been upthrust and then eroded away again, all but such harder parts as itself and other chimneys and blocks. A party of five persons came to this place where .the chimney rock had fallen against a newer hill. The people of the party did not care about the deep limestone below: they were not geologists. They did care about the newer hill (it was man-made) and they did care a little about the rock chimney; they were archeologists. Here was time heaped up, bulging out in casing and accumulation, and not in line sequence. And here also was striated and banded time, grown tail, and then shat- tered and broken. The five party members came to the site early in the afternoon, bringing the working trailer down a dry creek bed. They unloaded many things and made a camp there. It wasnt really necessary to make a camp on the ground. There was a good motel two miles away on the highway; there was a road along the ridge above. They could have lived in comfort and made the trip to the site in five minutes every morning. Terrence Burdock, however, be- lieved that one could not get the feel of a digging unless he lived on the ground with it day and night. The five persons were Terrence Burdock, his wife Ethyl, Robert Derby, and Howard Steinleser: four beauti- ful and balanced people. And Magdalen Mobley who was neither beaut