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<div style="text-indent: 20px;">Accompanying, and perhaps surpassing even these, are the works of that one-eared Flemish wizard, Vincent Van Gogh. Foremost among them is ''Sunflowers'', a painting whose sister, Sir Anthony tells us, was once the most expensive painting ever to change hands. | <div style="text-indent: 20px;">Accompanying, and perhaps surpassing even these, are the works of that one-eared Flemish wizard, Vincent Van Gogh. Foremost among them is ''Sunflowers'', a painting whose sister, Sir Anthony tells us, was once the most expensive painting ever to change hands. | ||
As might any structure which has stood for so long in so vital a place, in its time the Gallery has witnessed | As might any structure which has stood for so long in so vital a place, in its time the Gallery has witnessed momentous events, both fair and foul. The erection of Nelson’s Column. Celebrations about the Victory in Europe. Protests about the War in Vietnam. The Suffragettes bombed it 1914. Taxpayers rioted in front of it in 1990. | ||
So | So the goings on of this past October will not linger long. Fairer things, and fouler ones, will soon wipe them from the collected memory, just as a sponge might spilt soup. The sooner the better. But alas, they are on our agenda today so, [[Tedium|tiresome]] as they undoubtedly are, it falls to me to recount them. I shall do so as briefly as I can. | ||
===Facts=== | ===Facts=== | ||
It was just after 11am on a busy Friday towards season-end. Two young persons entered Room 43 of the Gallery. Dressed in matching white tee-shirts, they might have been mistaken for ''Wham!'' enthusiasts or ''Frankie Goes To Hollywood'' fans. Their tee-shirts read “{{caps|Just Stop Oil}}” and not “{{caps|Relax!}}” or “{{caps|Choose Life}}”, so we can suppose they were not. In any case, nothing turns on it. What matters for our purposes is that these young persons were the complainants. They had mischief on their minds. | It was just after 11am on a busy Friday towards season-end. Two young persons entered Room 43 of the Gallery. Dressed in matching white tee-shirts, they might have been mistaken for ''Wham!'' enthusiasts or ''Frankie Goes To Hollywood'' fans. Their tee-shirts read “{{caps|Just Stop Oil}}” and not “{{caps|Relax!}}” or “{{caps|Choose Life}}”, so we can suppose they were not. In any case, nothing turns on it. What matters for our purposes is that these young persons were the complainants. They had mischief on their minds. | ||