[UA] Pacific NW Clio sites

[Gregory Paul Stolze]

The rule of thumb I'd use for a significant site is this: Can it be used as
the punchline for a joke, or as the core of a metaphor?  "Big as the Grand
Canyon."  "Louder than Disneyland."  Those work.  "More mysterious than
Bluff Creek?"  Eh...

Significant charges are from places that are famous in and of themselves --
maybe because of something that happened there ("Remember the Alamo!") but
maybe just because of what they are.  (La Tour Eiffel, for example.)  

Minor charges are from places that are not intrinsically recognizable, but
which are the settings of recognizable events.  The place where the bigfoot
film was made is a squeaker, but it probably qualifies.  Similarly, I have
no idea WHERE Ernest Hemmingway killed himself, but I know very well that
he did and I know how.  I imagine this level of familiarity with
Hemmingway's death (knowledge of and how, but not where) makes the site
where he did it a minor site.  

-G.
There was nothing wrong with him that a good dose of humility wouldn't
cure.  Unfortunately, there was nothing right with him that a good dose of
humility wouldn't ruin.

http://www.thehungersite.com/index.html


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