The Great Dangaroo Flood

While probing the east end of Old Compton Street in search of evidence of the former Little Compton Street I happened to look up and spy a brass plaque, attached about 4 metres from the ground, on Number 7.

Squinting my eyes somewhat I was able to ascertain that the plaque marked the high water mark in the Great Dangaroo Flood, an event that heretofore I had never heard of. The plaque left me somewhat mesmerised and further investigation ensued.

Perhaps the primary reason I had not heard of the Great Dangaroo Flood is that it is an entirely factitious event – or rather a largely nonsensical event that took place in Old Compton Street in the parallel universe of Kcymaerxthaere. How thoughtful of the creator of that parallel universe, Eames Demetrios, to mark the corresponding spot of the high water mark here in our lineal world.

The plaque reads in full:

Great Dangaroo Flood
This plaque has been placed at the high water mark of one of the worst floods of the En’kymhuirian times. Incredibly, after two years at sea on their rafts of asphalt, the Tehachapi, the great road builders of Extrelliia [the initial k is not usually written], nearly foundered here at the end. But that first dusc, as the waters receded, the sky cleared, revealing a sign: no new heavens at all, but, for just that one night, the stars from their other side of the world; and so they called the place kNow Estrelliia – the name now given to this whole rezhn of Arctic Islands.

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Plaque placed by Kymaericaproject.com

The Kymaericaproject continues to be a major undertaking on the part of Demetrious – the Geographer-at-Large for Kcymaerxthaere – who has aspirations of installing a thousand plaques (or markers as they are called) in our lineal world to mark corresponding events in the Kcymaerxthaere. To date over 100 have been installed at various locations around the world though this one in London is the first one I have come across.

Hmmm, surely the makings of a future world tour for me. Should any of my loyal readers wish to finance it do let me know but, please, do not all rush at once as there will be other opportunities!!!

While brass plaques are the primary mode of relaying stories of this parallel universe to earthlings, books, performances, the Internet, embroideries (yes, embroideries!), guided collaborations and historic sites are also used.

Returning to the Great Dangaroo Flood, additional information on the Kcymaerxthaere website below tells us:

“The flood is known as the Great Dangaroo Flood because when the band of Tehachapi arrived at the height of the flood in their rafts of asphalt, they assumed that only Dangaroos, the giant war kangaroos whose huge claws could disembowel a man from 20 paces. Their devastating strength was decisive against the Material Alliance (of whom the Tehachapi were a reluctant part) at the Battle of the Devils Marbles, the beginning of the Tehachapic exile.”

In simpler terms the Tehachapi had come, at the height of a deluge, from Extrelliia (Australia) and formed the view that only the giant war kangaroo, or dangaroo, could have been responsible for the havoc they found in the area of Old Compton Street – hence the name given to the flood. Additionally, the Tehachapi, having seen the stars in Australia though the earth on their arrival in Compton Street christened what is the UK, Ireland, Iceland and Greenland kNow Estrelliia. All very logical really!

Something to look out for when next in Old Compton Street.

Location: No 7 Old Compton Street
Webpage: http://www.kcymaerxthaere.com/