PYRAMIDS | 2006-01-04
People are always talking about pyramid builders.
I was one from about the age of two. I lived in the sand hills, a sand box thousands of square miles in size. Whenever I filled my hands up with sand and let it slowly fall out of them, I would build a pyramid.
I don't understand why a pyramid is such a big deal. Skyscrapers are all pyramids, that is to say they are broader on the bottom than on the top.
So a pyramid, that miracle of miracles, has a broad bottom and a sharp top.
They're everywhere.
Those who are bowled over by the idea that pyramids show up everywhere would impress me more if they could find ancient buildings where the BOTTOM was a point and the TOP was wide. Just one case in the Valley of the Kings where the point was on the bottom would convince me that they had advanced building techniques.