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Jane J
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!"

S Squid Tempest
Squid Tempest Aug 6, 2009 09:26:08
Replying to Jane

Jane wrote:
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!"

Whilst I agree with you in principle, Avebury does seem to have a large proportion of anthropomorphic/simulacra stones compared to anywhere else I've seen. It does make me wonder if they were deliberatly chosen.