Hyde Park

by Frank Paynter on August 29, 2024

I went to the speakers’ corner. No one was speaking. Instead, a children’s merry-go-round has been installed.

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Jmo 08.29.07 at 3:36: Silence of the lambs.
Isn’t it sad? It’s sad.
Dean Landsman 08.29.07 at 6:31: Go forth and speaketh loudly.
tom 08.29.07 at 7:47: that’s likely why we didn’t find it.
Jon Husband 08.30.07 at 9:13: Go to the Tate Museum in Pimilco .. go ! Go !

There is (or was in mid-June) a great exhibit about slavery and what was going on in British Parliament wrt to it, and a bunch of other interesting stuff, during the time of William Wilberforce, Mary Wollstonecraft, and other contemporaries.

Plus, the installation in the middle of the main hallway representing Biritsh protest against the Iraq invasion / occupation grabs you and does not let go.
Stu Savory 09.01.07 at 6:00: Have you tried the famous echo in the reading room of the British Museum Library?

(quoting Gerard Hoffnung, god rest his soul, here