Comment 100416

By Joshua (registered) | Posted April 17, 2014 at 22:19:53 in reply to Comment 100358

That headless worker is there to remember all those who have been injured in the work-place. Now, with the tightening of employment-insurance regulations, the investigation of injury claims, and, even in these last few months, injuries and deaths at Maple Leaf Foods, that headless statue is more important than ever. It's not an either-or question, as if we're running out of room to put statues someplace, but it's a both-and.

And, hell, if we rid ourselves of every musician who was a complete arse, we'd have to get rid of Richard Wagner, Alan Lomax, the folklorist who paraded Leadbelly all over the States, among others. Remember lines from W. H. Auden's poem, At the Grave of Henry James:

Into this city from the shining lowlands Blows a wind that whispers of uncovered skulls And fresh ruins under the moon, Of hopes that will not survive the secousse of this spring, Of blood and flames, of the terror that walks by night and The sickness that strikes at noon.

All will be judged. Master of nuance and scruple, Pray for me and for all writers living or dead; Because there are many whose works Are in better taste than their lives, because there is no end To the vanity of our calling: make intercession For the treason of all clerks.

Because the darkness is never so distant, And there is never much time for the arrogant Spirit to flutter its wings, Or the broken bone to rejoice, or the cruel to cry, For Him whose property is always to have mercy, the author And giver of all good things.

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