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Syrcle of Seattle stands at the base of where a monolith disappeared
from atop Kite Hill in Magnuson Park. The 9-foot-tall steel monolith
mysteriously appeared on New Year's Eve.
SEATTLE, Jan. 3 — A monolith that mysteriously appeared in a Seattle
park with the dawn of 2001 has disappeared.
When workers went to Magnuson Park this morning, they found that
the 9-foot steel monolith was gone. Park officials said only some
burned candles and a rose were in its place.
Parks officials were deciding whether to leave or move the object
that resembled the shrieking
black marker in Stanley Kubrick’s landmark movie, 2001: A Space
Odyssey. They were concerned it could be tipped over.
No one has publicly claimed credit for installing the monolith.
The structure reminded Rebecca Sargent of Machu Picchu, the ancient
Incan ruins — similar vibe, she said.
Her husband, Denny, was a little more cynical,
humming the Space Odyssey theme as he moved forward to touch it.
"I feel my intelligence increasing by the moment," he said.
It wouldn't be the city's first experience with anonymous art, if
that's what it is. There was the 700-pound steel ball and shackles
placed on the right leg of the Seattle Art Museum's Hammering Man.
And there was the 1,800-pound metal heart Jason Sprinkle — "Subculture
Joe" — placed at Westlake Park in 1996, in protest of various issues.
That stunt cleared out a swath of downtown when police decided the
artwork might contain a bomb, which it didn't.
Summary：
这个世界总有些神秘的事情让人无法理解。这不，2001年才不过刚刚到来，就发生了一件古怪的事情。元月1日黎明神奇得来到西雅图Magnuson公园内Kite山上的一块9英尺见方的巨石，又莫名其妙地失踪了。它究竟去了哪里呢？
Words:
monolith [n] 独块巨石
shriek [v] 尖声叫喊，尖叫
cynical [adj] 愤世嫉俗的
shackle [n] 手铐，脚镣，桎梏
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