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Step off the platform
and into the hinterland that lies beneath Paris between
consciousness and and dreamtime...
The Paris underground system is truly astonishing; I saw a map once of the tunnels and 'spaces' of various types which riddle and undermine the capital and I was amazed. Between the metro, RER and SNCF train systems, the hundreds of passenger corridors linking them all, sunken roads and carparks, the sewage system, the electricity and gas infrastructure, the maintenance tunnels, the spooky Catacombes, secret underground lakes and reservoirs, old dried up river courses, the water supply system, ancient hidden passages linking the old heart of the city to... who knows where?! And the people who inhabit them... |
