6/11/06

A day in the basement, the lowest point within the whole complex, the diesel room the engine room, full of pumping equipment, oil fumes. Difficult to make work in this environment, I feel the weight of a London and military above us. Down below, noisy hot , difficult to make work, sitting astride one of the enormous diesels, thinking of Lee Miller on the Griffin building…and, the gung ho airman on the falling atom bomb in the final scene of ‘Dr Strangelove’ After that we go to an ‘office’ space, where we find ‘……….’ watching an early morning chat show. We discuss the furniture in the Prinicipal’s bedroom, [ ‘the only double bed in the whole place’…. ‘Good’ I think; it IS real] and how if you wanted to steal it you would have to smuggle it out in bits much like the escapees in ‘The Wooden horse’, gradually dispersing soil down baggy wartime flannels, facilitating an escape. We all shake our trousers in the way of the film.

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