坑の下の下げ振り
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。
1923年の記録、全3話完結
IOne Fathom DeeperA 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.7分 IIThe Next Line on the RockThe 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.5分 IIIThe Descending LineThe 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.4分