The speaker ends the second stanza and begins the third with the line, "I look down/Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds/Bends low, comes up twenty years away." This stanza communicates the continuity of the speaker's father's digging, but while in the present he digs in flowerbeds, in the past he was digging amongst potato drills. The goal of digging has changed, but the action itself has not. To make clear the journey we have made through time, the speaker switches mid-sentence into the past tense.

The next stanza continues the evocative language and uses alliteration freely. "The cold smell of potato mould, the squelch and slap/Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge/Through living roots awaken in my head," the speaker says, explaining the impact his rural upbringing had on him. He ends the stanza by saying he has no spade to follow men like his father and grandfather.The next stanza is longer than any of those that come before it, and it works to describe the speaker's grandfather. The speaker asserts that his grandfather cut "more turf in a day/Than any other man on Toner’s bog." Though the speaker is very firm in his characterization of his grandfather, this assertion has a slightly childlike tone, suggesting that the speaker still sees his father and grandfather through the adoring eyes of a child. Furthermore, the speaker's grandfather dug for turf, a source of fuel, while the speaker's father dug for potatoes. The speaker then outlines a day when he brought his grandfather "milk in a bottle/Corked sloppily with paper." This image evokes the pastoral landscape in which the speaker grew up. The following stanza is clearly rooted in the past. The first sentence describes the speaker's father's body interacting with the spade, but the speaker's voice distances the body from the father, treating it as an extension of the shovel. "The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft/Against the inside knee was levered firmly," the speaker says. By calling his father's boot and knee "the coarse boot" and "the inside knee," instead of connecting them directly to his father, the speaker suggests how intrinsic the act of digging is to his father's nature. Since we the readers know that the speaker is comparing his father's work as a farmer to his own work as a writer, we can conclude with some certainty that the speaker is thinking of how intrinsic his own trade is to himself. Once the reconstruction starts, follow a group of three people walking until they stop. They’ll suddenly become yellow similar to previous reconstructions. Now interact with them to learn more about who is working with Zero-Day. Afterward, you’ll need to analyze more of the AR footage by interacting with a Spiderbot in the above vent. If you can’t reach it from below, use a Spiderbot to enter the vent left of where the three people stopped. Annie Swan: I saw it! Him? Her? Late one night, I was scrubbing the latrine intake valves, when I looked up and -- in the distance, on a hill -- there it was. Tall, spindly, sliced in half by shadow and still as the dead, watching me. An alien! I'm not sure what to tell the camp commander. She'll think I'm nuts! And Nurse Nina told me Emily's getting worse. I can't lose this job. We are today grappling with the consequences of disastrous changes in our farming and food systems. While the problems we face have reached a crisis point, their roots are deep. Even in the seventeenth century, Frances E. Dolan contends, some writers and thinkers voiced their reservations, both moral and environmental, about a philosophy of improvement that rationalized massive changes in land use, farming methods, and food production. Despite these reservations, the seventeenth century was a watershed in the formation of practices that would lead toward the industrialization of agriculture. But it was also a period of robust and inventive experimentation in what we now think of as alternative agriculture. This book approaches the seventeenth century, in its failed proposals and successful ventures, as a resource for imagining the future of agriculture in fruitful ways. It invites both specialists and non-specialists to see and appreciate the period from the ground up.

By bringing his grandfather into the poem, the speaker makes clear that he is talking about something beyond just the dichotomy between his own career and his father's. He appears to celebrate the way of life that his father and grandfather, to an extent, shared, and the nostalgia represented in this poem suggests that the speaker's feelings toward his career as a writer are not cut-and-dry.By separating the word "Digging" into its own sentence, the speaker makes the action a mythical gesture. Digging is beyond his own reach, it seems, so to an extent he idealizes it. However, he seems to believe that he can reach the same transcendental place through his own hard work as his forbearers did through theirs. Annie Swan: Not sure what to think of this crazy universe. I didn't end up mentioning my little alien friend to Captain Scott. Money's tighter than ever, and Emily's skin and bone, though I know Nina's trying her best. Then, last night, after lights out it appeared looming over me. I near had to clean up after myself! It only said six words: "She will live. Leave this moon." The past tense of ‘ dig‘ is ‘dug.’ For example, “Yesterday, I dug a hole in the garden.” What is the past participle of ‘dig’? Also curious was Woolley’s assertion that once an object has been excavated and interpreted, the object per se loses its value. Its scientific and historical evidence has already been delivered. We can then consider all those objects in glass cases in museums as dead things, their souls are in libraries.