"Chicago" is the longest section of his memoir, and in many ways the bleakest, for it tunnels deep into the bedrock of inner-city despair and inadequate politics and black selfdestruction.
"Farm equipment lies tangled in lace; mice and squirrels have incorporated threads and needles from sewing baskets into nests or tunneled deep into the opulence of damp horsehair and straw," the photographer Rosamond Purcell wrote in a book about Mr. Buckminster, "Owls Head: On the Nature of Lost Things".
Most triumphantly of all, let's head to Radio 1's Newsbeat where, with classic Walshean logic, Louis has tunnelled deep into the heart of the problem with TV singing shows, noting that they're "not what they used to be – they have too much singing in them".
He was one of those soldiers, moreover, who with grim humour called themselves "claykickers", whose job it was to dig tunnels deep into the mud and plant bombs under enemy lines.
A handful of men, including Griffin's brother Connor Bruce Lyonss), take the boy's advice and, as you do, dig a tunnel deep into the bowels of the earth in an attempt to find "the far side of the world".
As the second half of the first season begins, the show seems poised to tunnel deeper into the maze of its own memory banks.
It is, as Winkelmann explains, the virus controlling everything: pressing all of the right buttons at the precise moments to open doors, allowing it to tunnel deeper into the system to get exactly where it needs to go.
Humans have tunnelled far deeper into the Earth's crust, however, using little more than blood, sweat and a spade.
The web of hand-dug tunnels extends deep into the bowels of the mountain south of the city, offering concealment and security.
As Israel's much lauded missile defense system, known as Iron Dome, has diminished Hamas rocket capabilities, the organization has fought back with a low-tech, manual offense — the digging of tunnels leading deep into Israeli territory.
