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Littlestone Jul 6, 2008 07:04:53
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"When the landscape painter John Constable contemplated Stonehenge in 1835, he mused that literal representation of the site had "been often enough done". He was not, however, deterred. Instead, he created something utterly unique - a painting that is strangely illuminated, filled with drama, and which sets human figures against the backdrop of the stones.

"Rosemary Hill's Stonehenge accomplishes something similar. It is not primarily an attempt to answer the riddle of what the stones are, but rather a tribute to the lively assortment of people who have dedicated energy and intellect to interpreting the monument over the past three and a half centuries."*

* http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2289314,00.html

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moss Jul 6, 2008 08:24:09
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In the 18th century, the antiquary William Stukeley dismissed the architect John Wood's theories as the "whimsys of his own crackt imagination"

Aah, crackt imagination like the cracked mirror - a thousand shards scattered on the ground - is'nt that the story of Stonehenge, pulled and pummelled by every passing whim of our glorious race.... Now waiting to be 'done up' for the Olympics, the government paying lipservice as always to what it will do and the handservant EH spending vast amounts of money that went exactly where - no where but into the pockets of those that would get greedy on anything that goes and will fit into their bank balances very nicely thank you ;)

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