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Museums
Saw the Millais exhibition at Tate Britain. Thought it was superb actually. There's one room full of grotesquely sickly-sweet child portraits, including the Pears soap girl, but the rest of it is actually very good: dramatic scenes, acute observation of expressions, lavishly beautiful nature backdrops, and technically superb. Highly recommended. They're also holding a Turner Prize retrospective upstairs. Nice to see some of the highlights of yesteryear again, though that terrible wooden shed is as tedious as ever. Also has Damien Hirst's Mother and Child Divided (the split cow and calf) which I hadn't seen before. It's definitely disturbing to walk through, seeing the various internal organs clearly laid out on each side.
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Steam, Foreman Also tried some mutton chops from the farmer's market for a slight change. Not that impressed: cooked them a lot longer as instructed: they're supposed to be more flavourful but apart from a stronger aftertaste they didn't seem any tastier than lamb chops.
Web Computing even more misogynistic than Physics. Croatian novelist on market literature and its strange resemblance to socialist realism.
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