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goffik Aug 6, 2009 08:52:07
Replying to suave harv

Yeah, that's the one. He theorises that the stones were chosen because they are shaped like faces, or are carved into the shapes.

Looks like quite an interesting book, although I don't hold with the "faces" idea, personally. However, there is one of the stones that bears a striking resemblance to Kenneth Williams! So who knows? ;)

I sort of got the impression, though, that rather than this being a stone carved in the shape of a heart, that Tobydog found a marking on a stone in the shape of a heart... It could well be the remains of some lichen, graffiti, carving, natural erosion or just a shape in the stone.

It'd be good to see a photo so we can see what yer on about, Tobydog! :)

G x

J Jane
Jane Aug 6, 2009 09:20:16
Replying to goffik

goffik wrote:
Yeah, that's the one. He theorises that the stones were chosen because they are shaped like faces, or are carved into the shapes.

Looks like quite an interesting book, although I don't hold with the "faces" idea, personally. However, there is one of the stones that bears a striking resemblance to Kenneth Williams! So who knows? ;)

I disagree, Goff, it doesn't look like an interesting book at all. In JaneWorld it looks like a pile of kaka-baba-shite!

Homo sapiens are evolutionarily programmed to see faces in stuff. We see them in clouds, in washing-up bubbles, in the pattern on a carpet, in the uneven surface of a great stone. I love the fact that you see the marvellous face of the late, great Kenneth Williams in one of the stones, Goff. Genius.

I better "Stop messing about..." or Terence Meaden will be thinking "Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"