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Having Googled these 'Jellybaby sculptures' I bumped into near Marble Arch in London last year it seems they are the Jelly Baby Family, the work of sculptor Mauro Perucchetti. Unfortunately they were only temporary until April last year, if you want to see them now you'll have to travel to the Barclays branch in Monaco.....
Quoting from www.mauroperucchetti.com/jbabiesvid.html : 'Mauro Perucchetti said: “12 years ago I created a body of work inspired by the dilemma between cloning and religion, and cloning and medical ethics. I decided to use the jelly baby as an impersonation of cloned mankind. I was trying to capture the ambiguity that could be present in a cloned being. On first glance, they seem very sweet, but from certain angles, they can look slightly sinister, especially on a large scale. In the current version, ‘Jelly Baby Family 2010’, they could easily embody the unity of family and the multicultural aspect of modern society that is so prevalent, especially in London and the world today.I am absolutely privileged and delighted that they will go in such a prominent position, and being opposite Speaker’s Corner gives them a particularly symbolic value.”
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Open Question: Is it bad that I I enjoy reading the less academic books?
So, I'm in eighth grade. I love reading books like Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Maximum Ride, etcetera. My friend is always reading a book like The Grapes of Wrath, The Da Vinci Code, and A People's History of the United States. Now, don't get me wrong, I think those kinds of books are great and all. They're just not my types of books. My friend thinks that I shouldn't read books like Percy Jackson because they're below eighth grade reading level. I know they're below my potential reading level (I think she's wrong about them being below eighth grade reading level, but I do admit they're below my potential reading level). It's just that I find higher level books SO boring. I like certain classic books, such as Huckleberry Finn and The Crucible, that have good plots and captivating conflicts. But then there are other books that I positively cannot stand. I was talked into reading Pride and Prejudice, which was so mind-numbing that I put it down after a few chapters and never picked it up again. I was forced to read Call of the Wild for school, which I think is probably THE stupidest book I've read in my life. I DON'T FUCKING CARE ABOUT SOME STUPID DOG THAT'S HAVE LAME COMPLICATIONS WITH THE WEATHER. Seriously, the biggest conflict in the book was the fight between him and another lame dog. I hated it so much that when the teacher asked us to grade the story elements, I gave him F's in both Conflict and Plot and wrote so much much about how badly I hated it that I just barely fit it on the poster board.
Now, there are certain classics that I read and loved. But I will admit that understandable language does have a good deal to do with it. I'm very, very bad at interpreting old English. Not just the kind of English in Shakesphere where it's not even English anymore (as it was put in the book Nothing but the Truth, "She says it's English, but it must be English before English got there", but English from just the 1700's or so is hard. I can understand essentially what they're saying, but it's hard for me to get exited over major scenes or emotional conflicts because the drama doesn't come across as strongly when I don't understand everything. A big part of my liking The Crucible was because we read it in class, so the teacher helped us understand exactly what was going on.
Now, I'm in no way one of those kids who hates reading and writing. In fact, it's just the opposite. Anything that has to do with language (reading, writing, poetry, debate, speeches, grammar, TALKING TALKING TALKING) is something I love. Language arts is, in fact, my very favorite class. It's just that I tend to not choose the older, more complicated-language-filled novels. I do have my limits; I couldn't stand reading Twilight because it was just sooooooooooooooooooo dumb. But the pint is, I read books for fun. I read it so that I can join another world, so that I can understand the characters as though they're my best friends, so that I can feel my heart beating and the adrenaline rushing through me during the suspenseful, or action-packed conflict, so that I can feel the sensation that I can never put the books down because I HAVE to know what happens next. I don't read books so that I can spend half an hour thumbing through the dictionary every other sentence just to understand what the hell's going on. Like...my perfect, amazing, flawless, will-read-until-the-day-I-die book series is Harry Potter. Because:
1. Interesting, but not ridiculous basic idea (Compare to Twilight: Stephanie Meyers takes the cliche topic of vampires and makes it stupid. J.K. Rowlings takes the cliche idea of witches and wizards and makes it newly interesting)
2. Different, yet well-described setting (I don't want to read a book about a person that has the exact same life as me. I want to read about some fantasy setting far away, like Hogwarts, and have it be so well-described that i can truly leave my dull life here as a human in America)
3. Dynamic characters, great character development (I love reading about characters that change over the course of the book, so that it's interesting, and that are so well described that I feel like they've been my best friend since forever)
5. Conflicts around every corner (I can't stand reading books about monotone life. I want books to be constantly fast-paced and action-packed, the kind of book that will keep me glued to the pages, always wanting to know what happens next)
6. An Actual Climax(This is a HUGE deal for me. A climax is the part of book that determines the resolution. And some authors make it just that. I want the climax to include DRAMA, SUSPENSE, ACTION, SUSPENSE, ACTION, SUSPENSE, SUSPENSE, DRAMA, SUSPENSE, ACTION ACTION ACTION ACTION ACTION DRAMATIC ENDING!)
In short, for me it's about interest factor. I don't give a f*ck about how much
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