[Vwoolf] E pluribus unum

[Stuart N. Clarke]

“the subservient eagle bears up for inspection the great white book” (JR)

the ‘brass eagle carrying the Bible on its back’ (VO)

‘a Bible spread on the back of the brass eagle’ (W)

Cf. 
‘a large brass fowl, of pious expression, supported a huge Bible’
(Osbert Sitwell, “Before the Bombardment” (Duckworth, 1926, p. 183)
[Tessa lifts out a small framed painting and holds it up.] …

McCorquodale: It was my intention to represent – in a symbolic fashion – the Christian church.

Tessa:  A bird of prey carrying an olive branch.  You’ve put the matter in a nutshell.

(‘Funeral Games’ (1968) by Joe Orton)


Stuart
(Day 224)

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