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March 31, 2005
Sculpture & Symbolism, by John Ashcroft
"A Dutch war memorial that goes up and down, and spurts flames may be scrapped after complaints it looks like a giant penis.
The Liberation Monument is a giant copper obelisk that rises and falls depending on the level of sunlight, and spurts flames out of the top during important festivals."
Insert joke about "standing tall for freedom" here. Followed by Beavis & Butthead-style snickering.
Sex and death and war and patriotism, all mashed together into one mighty, misguided Macho Death Cult phallic symbol.
I guess we already have our Washington Monument here in the U.S., but when it was built the technology just didn't exist to make flames shoot out the top. Or Ashcroft would've had the world's largest drop-cloth deployed.
Posted by Jeff at March 31, 2005 10:50 AM