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Monday, November 04, 2002Among the lots on sale in New Bond Street was a woollen "stocking purse" still stained with Nelson's blood. A couple of years ago, at a Charles Dickens sale, Sotheby's sold the detachable collar the Great Inimitable was wearing when he died of apoplexy, still visibly discoloured with his last drops of sweat. Whoever bought those interestingly soiled articles has the DNA from which, a hundred years hence, the BBC will be able to clone two of its Great Britons. Happy thought. Let's hope nobody takes that sort of thing seriously. Considering how difficult it would be to duplicate the 18th and 19th century living conditions and attitudes that shaped them into the men they became, there’s no reason to expect their clones to be anything near what the real men were. posted by Sydney on 11/04/2002 07:55:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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