Funny how a simple photograph can spur a wild train of thought:
I finally more or less decided that these giant stacks are railroad ties. They remind me of the anonymous apartment buildings I used to see in East Berlin back in the day. I thought of those days again recently when we watched the German indie film 'Goodbye Lenin'. Not a film about the Beatles. According to the internet, one of the first uses of the expression, 'fit to be tied' was James Joyce in Ulysses. The expression has fallen out of favor, even though there appear to be more people than ever who are fit to be tied. What I wonder is, who's going to tie up all the nutters?
