Christopher James Huff wrote:
> In article <40757b9a@news.povray.org>,
> Ross Litscher <rli### [at] everestkc net> wrote:
>
>> it was going to be a scene of a "water moving facility" with down-trodden
>> slaves doing nothing but endlessly pushing water through for no apparent
>> reason. but i digress. it wouldnt be hard to smooth this out a little to
>> make it less "active" so to speak.
>
> Your description reminds me of the fictional Pacific island (based on
> Sri Lanka) that was described in Arthur C. Clarke's book The Fountains
> of Paradise. The local king/warlord had a bunch of pleasure gardens
> built, along with some large fountains fed from a cistern on a mountain.
> To keep the fountains going, he had hundreds of slaves continually
> carrying water up to the cistern.
>
King Kalidasa of Taprobane. By a strange coincidence I just finished
reading that a while back :-)
--
Bill Hails
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