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Museum of The Swamp of Eels


The Swamp of Eels is the name of a rural area located in the
eastern part of The Country. Due to The Country’s location
near the equator and The Swamp of Eel’s location near the
coastline, the weather remains tropical all year round.

Humid-warm climate and sandy loam soil result in a perfect
condition for growing cassava. It has become the main
industrial crop of The Swamp of Eels in the past decades,
thus occupying the largest area of the land.

(For people who are not familiar with tropical plants, a field
of cassava can look like a giant cannabis jungle sometimes.)

In the beginning of the rainy season, the monsoon blows
across the area from the southwest to the northeast.
The atmosphere of The Swamp of Eels is quite clear and
pleasant most of the time; however, local people have the
habit of burning things - maybe trash, maybe not trash.
As a resullt, a heavy smoke plume often looms over the
area, and people would always find themselves living
in the dark.

Map

A road map of The Swamp of Eels is handed to the newcomer within the first week of the arrival.
The main road, which cuts through the middle of the area, is nicely paved and has a picturesque view of the countryside.
According to the road map, there is one peculiar route.
By going back and forth, and back and forth, between two destinations, for four times repeatedly,
the newcomer will become eligible to ride on the secret street.
There, the newcomer would donate some flesh and tendons to the asphalt.
Then, the newcomer is considered to be formally welcomed to The Swamp of Eels.

Language

People at The Swamp of Eels only speak foreign language.

Flora
A jungle flower remains in a vase inside a room.

Weather
I looked at the sky and then I became a dinosaur,
watching its own extinction.

Political System
The golden goose appears in our garden one morning.
No one knows if the golden goose is really the golden goose
and animals are not allowed in the house.
However, our housemaid also needs to win a lottery.

Transportation
Hope I'm not trapped at that horrible D Terminal at Sheremetyevo.
Hope I'm not trapped at that horrible D Terminal at Sheremetyevo.
Hope I'm not trapped at that horrible D Terminal at Sheremetyevo.

Health
No medical records found.

Education
No one, he (Charles Morton) (figure a) continues, knows the whereabouts of migrant birds
(figure b) during the winter months; therefore, they reside off the earth (figure c).
The evidence suggests that in returning they come "from above, where the main of the journey
is performed without any gravitation. . .Now, whither should these creatures go, unless it were to the moon (figure d)?. . .
Surely they seek a place where they may have a comfortable repose, but that cannot be any other land here,
for directly upright is not the way to any part of this globe."
At their departure "their chearefulness seems to intimate that they have some noble design in hand, . . .
namely, to get above the atmosphere, hie and fly away to the other world."
(Ancient writing discovered on the wall in a field)

Nong Pla Lai no.1

Nong Pla Lai no.2

Nong Pla Lai no.3

Museum of The Swamp of Eel book