It was these cultures that became the basis for the gnomes of our myths. Derbyshire saw the last trog village at Buxton. One French visitor reported, 'I looked in vain for the habitations of so many labourers families without being able to see so much as a cottage when at length I discoverd the whole tribe, like so many moles, had formed their residences underground' . It's like a hug with nothing to hold you, an understanding. It's like when the stars fill your eyes with their light, and they fill your emptiness.
Tunnels are a great tactics and amazing, almost magical, places.
A homeless Canadian finds solace hidden underground in a bunker in the forest. The shock upon reaching Eritrea was the illusion that there were no people. Then, out of the ground they came, flashing torches, embracing the drivers. The guerrillas carried out their ambushes in the early hours and retrieved their dead and wounded before the planes came at first light. In the north, an astonishing, complete town had been built underground.