Mary Louise Eklund

Tag: Resurrect the Dead on Jupiter

  • Freaky Friday – Toynbee Tiles

    toynbee-tile-by-matt-flickr-22jul16
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    Imagine one day you are going about your business in a city crossing a street you’ve crossed many times before but here in the middle of the crosswalk that’s so familiar you pay no attention to it something catches your eye. It’s a tile, a tile that’s had letters cut from it and those letters replaced with ones cut from another color tile. You stop to read the message.

    Toynbee Idea
    In Movie 2001
    Resurrect Dead
    On Planet Jupiter

    You walk on puzzling over just what that means. Now that message becomes part of your daily routine. You find a few more over the following years as you move about your city. Then you take a trip to a few other cities and are surprised to find similar tiles there. Then when on vacation in Chile dang if you don’t see one there. What is this? This is the phenomena known as Toynbee Tiles.

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