One Fathom Deeper
A coal mine’s vertical shaft in Gangwon. Each time the surveyor sounds the pit, the plumb line touches a bottom one fathom deeper than the day before.
- 3,401 characters
- ~7 min
Series
坑の下の下げ振り
갱 아래의 다림줄
1923年、江原道の山中にある炭鉱。竪坑の深さを測る測量手の下げ振りが、ある日から触れてはならない深さに触れはじめる。
- In progress · 1923
- 3 chapters
Chapters
I II The Next Line on the Rock
The surveyor closes the Bureau register and tallies his own soundings. Cutting a line into the worn rock by the pit-mouth, he counts that the lines outnumber the surveyors ever posted.
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- ~5 min
III The Descending Line
The surveyor goes down into the shaft on the plumb line. The bottom does not wait for him, as it never did when sounded, and the line he cut into the rock leaves room for the next that will wear away.
- 1,948 characters
- ~4 min