Passer-by:<\/p>\n
– You look strange, centaur: a huge red head and a small grey body. The sculptor must have wanted to carve you as very intelligent \u2013 as Buddhists might say, an enlightened centaur.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sculpture:<\/p>\n
– This is my second head. The first was stolen a month after I was installed. It was different: a graceful little head mounted on a metal rod. But late one evening a thief came, cut through the rod and carried my head away.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Passer-by:<\/p>\n
– And how did the new head appear on your shoulders? Surely it did not grow back by itself like the head of a nine-headed dragon?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Sculpture:<\/p>\n
– I stood headless for a long time. Little birds liked to land on my neck and tell me their troubles, but since I had no ears, eyes or mouth, I could not answer them. After thirty years, sculptor Algirdas Bosas gave me a new head. You see how red it is. That was the only stone he could find \u2013 a leftover from the sculpture \u201cReclining Woman\u201d \u2013 so that is what he carved. In colour, the head is one thing and the body another. But it is beautiful, isn\u2019t it?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Passer-by:<\/p>\n
– How shall I put it\u2026 there is no arguing about taste.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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