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Diggers. Exterior & goings-on
Novosibirsk diggers are neither a club nor official organization. Despite specific name they are not related to leveller's left wing, that existed in times of English bourgeois revolution of XVII century. In contrast to "classical" diggers, Novosibirsk ones do not crawl along stinking city underground communications. Spade is a rear tool in their hands. Novosibirsk diggers are nobody else but several persons who like to spend their money and time (in fact the same money) descending underground following crazy drops of water, wich have gnawed the passages through the thikness of limestone.
One may ask why did they call themselves with this hackneyed foreign word. Let's listen to diggerizm father:
The name "Novosibirsk Diggers" turned up in the following way (Matthew 1.1). Father Yu.B. Schwartz, being in the state of light alcoholic intoxication walked away from the fraternal fire nearby the Tutkushskaya cave. And the angel emerged and told: "you'll be novosibirsk diggers". However, (here the narrator used an untranslatable pun - translator's note) he returned and imparted this news to diggers co-fathers. And that's the story. Who would dare to argue against Matthew? |
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