I keep thinking about this interview I read a while ago with Michael Crook. Crook is a urban tunneler. He explores the fringes of public space. The interview is mostly about sewers. He lives and explores in Toronto. The interview makes Toronto sing with life the way Michael Ondaatje’s books have. I doubt it’s coincidence that one of the named drainage systems he refers to is “the Skin of the Lion”.

Drains of Canada: An Interview with Michael Cook

I won’t try and pull any particular quotes out, the whole thing is amazing. And then there’s the photographs.

I haven’t spent much time on Michael’s website, Vanishing Point, but superficially it appears to be one of the best websites I’ve seen.