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søren k. harbel's avatar

Wow, I loved walking around that square and looking at all the different statues... what is the plan? Will they come back?

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Neil Scott's avatar

Due to return, but some fear they will be quietly jetissoned.

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søren k. harbel's avatar

With some revisionist thinking, I am sure all of them are connected to something or other…. Making history relevant is fine, making it invisible is not.

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Kieran Dodds's avatar

No way! I have been doing a wee story on statues here the last few months. We so often overlook them but they look over us! Similar grey skies aesthetic but different context.

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Neil Scott's avatar

Cool! I really want to chat to Sandy Stoddart about his work. His David Hume is my favourite there.

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Kieran Dodds's avatar

Yes, do that. Ask him his view on the toe and whether that was intended. They way its projects out invites a touch. Hume would not be amused.

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Neil Scott's avatar

Good idea! My view is that people don't touch it for luck, as some would have it, but because it is so eminently touchable. He was into the evidence of the senses so maybe he'd like it?

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Kieran Dodds's avatar

Well philosophy students started it, we assume, so maybe it was ironic or genuinely superstitious. Certainly it is used as a good luck charm today for those on trial or tourists. Like spitting on the heart of midlothian. Good idea to find out!

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