"And when it does not look like it stands up, or it does not look like it functions, then it functions and stands differently."

Peter Esienman


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The Tricorn ley line passes through the two spiral ramps which edge the building to the south east and north. One of the ramps spirals up and the other spirals down, into the cavern below. This is where the spirits pass.

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Dr. Mintern realised this way down whilst measuring the position of the Winter Solstice sunrise, from the top of the Tricorn, in 1994.

He wrote the Tricorn poem soon after beginning his survey of 'our atheist cathedral'.

TRICORN

"...it is the jewel in Palmerston's crown, the light at the centre..."

A cold war cathedral, built to be buried
under a mound, as at Silbury.
Known to the Druids as "Elen’s Bower",
it was a May Pole enclosure - in past times -
where maidens danced amongst the stones
of a circle, by the hanging tree, in hysteria.
Aubury surveyed this sward, calling it
"the mound ship of Portus, and of his household."
Being aligned with the fort at Hilsea -
and echoing of the Lump Forts in the swell,
and the muniments on Portsdown Hill,
and at their centre, measured easily -
it guards its groves and maidens, although fallen,
and holds the platform of the city up

above the rising waves, unconsciously.

 


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