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Two nights ago I sat on the porch with my friend dreXeL getting completely excited about a newsflash we had been alerted to right here in Brooklyn. Apparently there is a secret, non-gov’t sanctioned tunnel running deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Starting yesterday, more than a century after it was begun, the tunnel was to be completed. Immediately afterwards, an extraordinary optical device called a Telectroscope would be installed at both ends which would miraculously allow people to see right through the Earth from London to New York and vice versa.

Contemplating the amazing advance of this device we talked about the romanticism it evoked in us. We imagined Victorian workmen traipsing late-night through the streets of London, pushing through fog to escape down a secret shaft to continue work on this highly secret tunnel. We then played devils advocate wondering how such a device would work keeping in mind the temperature of inner-Earth and what kind of instrument it would take to drill through such rock and soil. We even went so far as to imagine the Disney adaptation movie that would likely cast Nic Cage as the frustrated engineer and telectroscope inventor Alexander Stanhope St George. Before calling it a night we decided that by week’s end we must go to the Brooklyn Bridge and see this incredible invention for ourselves.

You can imagine my dismay then when I woke up yesterday to an email from my friend saying she had alerted several of her friends and found out through return email that the ’scope was nothing more than a hoax; outdoor art at best. “But we read the website? We tracked the progress on the web,” I later told her on the phone. The damage was done though. We had been duped. The Brooklyn Bluff had stricken us and we had been made fools of. Or had we?

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