March 19, 2005

The BBC commemorates Churchill

Words fail me. Just go and look. Pythonesque.

Posted by David on March 19, 2005 1:08 PM

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If they need a sculpture commemerating Tony Blair I have a plastic milk crate I'm willing to part with for only £25,000.

Posted by: carter on March 19, 2005 6:00 PM

Are you sure they remembered to take it out of the box?

Posted by: Brian Ferguson on March 20, 2005 6:16 PM

Well, I can say it is a long way from my taste. And yes, silly.

But it does seem to be legitimate. In a previous article BBC unveils Churchill sculpture [Plans]
we find -
'Churchill's speech drafts were typed from shorthand notes in what he called Psalm Style - blocks of indented text, stepping diagonally down the page.
'The finished drafts were known as Hymn Sheets.
"I first saw the speech drafts in the archive of the Imperial War Museum," the artist said, "and was struck by Churchill's awareness of the way in which the shape of the spaces around words can amplify their meaning."

Posted by: John Anderson on March 21, 2005 3:17 AM
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