Remaking History, One Statue At A Time
Jun. 10th, 2020 01:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloAnd then there's Columbus...
Thief, mass murderer and one of the most evil individuals of whom we have any record.
(But subject of a hagiographic biopic which was made as recently as 1992)
Public-spirited citizens in Richmond, Virginia have just thrown one of his statues in a lake.
It was shallow lake. The bloody thing is still partly visible above the water line.
Anyway, that's one down, many thousands still to go.
As I recall one of his likenesses sits atop a huge monument conveniently sited next to the docks in Barcelona...
Thief, mass murderer and one of the most evil individuals of whom we have any record.
(But subject of a hagiographic biopic which was made as recently as 1992)
Public-spirited citizens in Richmond, Virginia have just thrown one of his statues in a lake.
It was shallow lake. The bloody thing is still partly visible above the water line.
Anyway, that's one down, many thousands still to go.
As I recall one of his likenesses sits atop a huge monument conveniently sited next to the docks in Barcelona...
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