


Macaulay's books, wonderfully illustrated.Brief Summary of Book: Motel of the Mysteries by David Macaulay He projects a time when our civilization will have been buried. His new book is a marvel of imagination and a comfortable satire. is a superb craftsman and an imaginative writer and illustrator. Carson's incredible discoveries, including the remains of two bodies, one of then on a ceremonial bed facing an altar that appeared to be a means of communicating with the Gods and the other lying in a porcelain sarcophagus in the Inner Chamber, permitted him to piece together the whole fabric of that extraordinary civilization. Imagine, then, the excitement that Howard Carson, an amateur archeologist at best, experienced when in crossing the perimeter of an abandoned excavation site he felt the ground give way beneath him and found himself at the bottom of a shaft, which, judging from the DO NOT DISTURB sign hanging from an archaic doorknob, was clearly the entrance to a still-sealed burial chamber. It is the year 4022 all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985.

About the Book It is the year 4022 all of the ancient country of Usa has been buried under many feet of detritus from a catastrophe that occurred back in 1985.
