Archive for December, 2010
The news year
BBC correspondents on the possible headlines for 2011
Published Dec 30, 2010.
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The New World

“Celia was laughing. Hopefully I said: How shall this beauty that we share, This love, remain aware Beyond our happy breathing of the air How shall it be fulfilled and perfected… If you were dead, How then should I be comforted But Celia knew instead: He who finds beauty here, shall find it there. A halo gathered round her hair. I looked and saw her wisdom bare The living bosom of the countless dead. … And there I laid my head. “
Detail from the Elgin Marbles at the British Museum
