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'I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free'
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- Axel Leijonhufvud
- E.E.Evans-Pritchard
- Edmund Leach
- Francois Couperin
- Joan Robinson
- John Maynard Keynes
- Louis de Soissons
- Mario Draghi
- Noam Chomsky
- Pablo Picasso
- Paul Klee
- Pietro Porcinai
- The Earl of Onslow
- Umberto Boccioni
- Wassily Kandinski
- Wilhelm von Humboldt
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November
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- Bersani Weeps on Television
- Leaving Gracefully: Bersani Should Step Back in th...
- Excluding the Younger Voters
- Party But Not Democratic
- Turning the Other Cheek
- Apparatchiks Offensive
- These are the Men, the Very Fat Men (and Women) Wh...
- Voting Against the Official Line in Italy
- Common
- Galileo Galilei, Pisa, 15 February 1564 – Arcetri,...
- Gulp
- Monies for Mantova and the North to be Released Af...
- Feeding Stories to the BBC
- Very Well, Alone
- Losing to Obama
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November
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Fallen Angels
- David Cameron (for risking the disorderly dissolution of the Euro)
- Giorgio Napolitano (for stance on Budapest 1956: Prague 1968: Italy 2013)
- Mervyn King (for bailing-out Northern Rock)
- Nicholas Kaldor (for inventing VAT)
5 comments:
Good Lord. Are you carrying paintings up bell towers?
The spectre of 1966 looms again.
Pictures like that frighten me, I hope you are all OK.
that'd take a lot of gulping
Yikes. I was in Florence in 1968, and the tidemark of the flood were still clearly visible. Good news, however, that the remaining moneys for earthquake repair have been made available - so many Italian cities are treasure troves for us all.
Clear blue skies all of today. Masses of water being pushed through as fast as they dare to clear the decks for next week. Rome and Venice are having a really bad time. Europeans might set aside their political differences and recognise their extraordinary heritage via some supranational but extra-EU prganised response to threat, natural or man-made.
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