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as much about water
tossed off in a shudder of brushed steel. /
We kissed. Then I leaned back to peruse /
my blighted child, this wary aristocratic mole.
T S Eliot, The Waste Land, 1922
Al Hoota is certainly as much about water as it is about stone. Water is everywhere, from the molten rock that envelopes you to the little pools that trickle down into the lake. It is, as Da Vinci said, vetturale di natura, the vehicle of nature.
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