It has been suggested — no, why this pussy-footing passive
construction? — Jane has suggested —
that I have short-changed you in the matter of pictures on the blog. So here
today are several: first, Lenin addressing the workers: the chap on the steps
to the right is, I’m pretty sure, Trotsky:
Now, not the same picture censored exactly, but another
taken within seconds; too few seconds for comrade Leon to have got down the
steps:
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Shocking, eh? Not the sort of thing that would happen in
England, of course. Here now is a picture, a famous one, of the great Victorian
engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel standing by the anchor chains of his
magnificent but doomed ship the ‘Great Eastern’:
And here again is another version of that picture, deemed
more suitable for schoolchildren, who must learn lying and hypocrisy early if
they want to earn the respect of their elders:
Incidentally, the fine Greek writer Andreas Embeirikos wrote
a huge pornographic novel, even longer than Proust’s ‘Remembrance of Things
Past’, set on the (fictional) maiden voyage of the ‘Great Eastern’.
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