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“One learns that these reliefs were once brightly coloured… I don't fret about this. I do not live in the first millennium Bc, but today, in my own time. I see these reliefs as they have come down to us irretrievably altered in the unforgiving operating room of time… We are now conditioned to like them stone-coloured, and I do.”
— Jan 14, 2026 03:07PM
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Mary Rose
is on page 226 of 248
“I see these reliefs as they have come down to us irretrievably altered in the unforgiving operating room of time; in this case, buried for millennia under tons of rubble. We are now conditioned to like them stone-coloured, and I do. So I don't long for colour any more than I long for the fortepiano in listening to early Beethoven; I like the sound of the modern piano, the instrument of my time.”
— Jan 14, 2026 03:07PM
