Size matters

The sculptors of these two objects have something in common. In the public opinion they were too generous with the boy's best part and gave it a size that was able to annoy their contemporaries.

Both, Eric Gill and Jacob Epstein, had to cut the organs down to size. Eric Gill's sculpture Prospero and Ariel (left) can be seen at the Broadcasting House; Jacob Epstein's sculpture Day (below) at Broadway House.

I publish these pictures today as I observed a group of grown-up (sic!) Italian tourists today taking pictures at the banks of the Thames. One guy laid down on the wall at the river bank and another took a picture of him arranging the Gherkin accordingly.

Reminds me of my first holiday with Italians in Ireland, when the boys draw a huge penis into the sand and pictured themselves with it. Today my prejudices of Italian machos have again been confirmed.