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...imaginative palette. "I'm withdrawing a bit," he says, "searching for what archaeologists call 'a find,' for the jewels we can dig out of us." His Salmon is such a precious relic-a dying fish preserved by the artist's reverent brush as a glowing emblem of life...
These words serve as the opening to one of Godfrey Blunden's chapters. They might well be the emblem of his book. The lost works that he has sought to retrieve from oblivion are those of the crew of H.M.S. Endeavor, a fat British collier fitted out as a naval vessel and dispatched in 1768 to explore the Pacific...
Among the most famous was the stealing of the Massachusetts State symbol, Boston's Sacred Cod, a large wooden fish, on April 26, 1933. According to the Boston Post of April 27, 1933, "Since 1798 until some time between 5 p.m. and 8 p.m. the sacred, silent emblem of Massachusetts had held a place of honor in the state House...
Originally planned to take place a week ago Sunday, it succumbed to the climate of animosity that has confronted peace demonstrations all year--it was rained out. Moustachoied advocates of the conspiracy theory report they spotted planes sporting the emblem of the Commonwealth seeeding the clouds minutes before the downpour...
...republic. In the end, as a last judgment of God, or of the author, The Tarbox Congregational Church is struck by lightning. Only the gold weathercock on the spire, the symbol of God's watchful but now indifferent eye, is spared in the ensuing fire. Eventually even this emblem is hauled down from its pinnacle. Placed in the hands of the Church's absurd minister it is found to measure only "five feet from beak to tail feathers; the copper penny of his eye was tiny...