is massive in scale, measuring just less than five metres high by three metres wide. It is impossible to ignore Lawrence’s suffering. I stood there till closing time. I watched the fit body of a man, a body still good, pinned to a wooden bench. I thought of the carpenter who had constructed the bench. I saw the daughter handing him a glass of water. The bench had been constructed carefully to play its part effectively: to hold up the body until, at the right moment, it would burn too and crumble. But we are at an earlier stage. The bench is still holding up well. The fire beneath it is being
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