编辑：格伦·乔夫
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他们称他为挖掘机,爱阴毒挖苦人的。它佤邦s an apt nickname considering his peculiar hobby – digging. As a child he dug countless craters in his parent’s garden and didn’t stop until he had pock-marked the lawns of all his relatives. As an adult, friends couldn’t invite him to their homes lest he sneak into their backyards, regardless of the season, with a tiny shovel in his hands and a delighted gleam in his eyes. He loved the feel of dirt in his hands and the prospect of discovery as he tilled the earth. Whenever he discovered something in the ground, whether it was a nondescript pebble, a disgruntled insect or a man-made item buried and forgotten in time, he felt profound pleasure. His insatiable desire to dig in all sorts of places drove him to develop real estate just so he could buy raw land, dig to his heart’s content and then move on to new projects.
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他的朋友们都问了同一个问题：“你为什么这么喜欢挖掘？他的回答很简单，“地球是一个大宝箱。接下来，他的朋友们不可避免地会问：“你发现了什么？”？他的回答同样可以预见，“各种各样奇妙的东西。”事实上，去过他家的人发现房间里堆满了挖掘出来的物品，如古董硬币、金属碎片、不寻常的石头，甚至还有金块。在这些发现物旁边展示的是他从世界各地赞助的考古队和博物馆赠送给他的物品。这里有石器时代的碎刃、各种各样的化石、陶器、珠子和氧化的金属雕塑。
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The Digger found joy and passion in discovering items buried in the ground for years. Objects cradled in Earth’s warm embrace laying undisturbed for centuries attained unique patinas impossible to artificially recreate. One of his favorite finds were fossils, which he considered works of art taking millions of years to complete. The preservation of micro details from the original shell or skeleton was something no mortal artist could achieve. He would become lost in examining these details and imagining what conditions were like so many millennia ago. Unlike other types of excavated objects, fossils were once alive.
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被击毁的刀片的汇集装饰了挖掘机的膨胀图书馆和学习的墙壁，反映了他对人类早期进化和聪明才智的热情。那些没有诬陷的人是优雅的。他特别喜欢穿着尖锐的绑扎边缘的手指。他想象那些让这些物品的人坚决塑造他们，以便为了生存而雕刻。从来没有在他们最疯狂的梦想中猜到数百万年后，他们的后代会发现这些工具和契约的人类的历史和演变。他们一定是不可能想象收藏家和爱好者认为这些工具作为艺术，并对他们提供了很大的价值。
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挖掘者发现挖掘出的东西有一种无法抗拒的无形品质。在他的眼中，地球以一种独特的方式改变着每一件事物。例如，他收集了大量的玻璃珠，磨得光滑，没有光泽。金属物品，如中东的刀片或非洲文物，同样失去了青铜光泽，取而代之的是一种更暗的蓝色。这些变化远远没有减弱。事实上，挖掘者知道它们的美丽是从内部散发出来的。这是一种既能感受到又能看到的美。
谁知道地球将揭示什么秘密？这可能是一个古老的证据，这些证据将颠倒颠覆历史理论，或者也许是一系列中世纪的珠宝埋藏地下并失去了几个世纪。无论这些对象可能是什么，他们无疑会提供与过去的无价值的联系，以及地球触及的有意义和美丽的艺术品。
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