"When the World Screamed"

This fictional story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle struck a cord with me. It tells the story of an arrogant Professor who embarks on a quest to bore down through the earth to eventually penetrate the earths crust. This destructive way of making the earth notice him as an individual culminates in a violent confrontation with the crust itself. Ironically it appropriates how we as individuals have a desire to make a mark within the world, although not as violent, we state our claim through dwellings, agriculture, conservation and any kind of physical penetration of the land.