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Sculpture by the Sea

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  View Larger Map Sculpture by the sea is an annual community art event set up between Tamarama beach and Bondi Beach. The exhibition goes on for a couple of weeks and t his year it featured works from over a hundred of artists. Jean and I met up with Sunita and Neel a couple of weeks ago to check it out. We started a t Tamarama beach and meandered our way along the coast line the 2 kilometers to Bondi. There were a wide variety of works. I was particularly drawn to the ones that made use of the landscape or environmental factors. Tamarama beach One of the creepier pieces, a giant, bodiless baby doll head constructed from sheet metal Oh wait, now it has body Hubasaurus Rex. Angle iron and internet boxes. Mr. Tumnus practicing his marksmanship at Narnia's laser rifle range

Lizards

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“It comes from a very ancient democracy, you see..." "You mean, it comes from a world of lizards?" "No," said Ford, who by this time was a little more rational and coherent than he had been, having finally had the coffee forced down him, "nothing so simple. Nothing anything like so straightforward. On its world, the people are people. The leaders are lizards. The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford. "It is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them," said Ford. "They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates to the government they want." "You mean they actually vo