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Tate Trustees and the public interest

The Tate recently named two new

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2006. As an artist trustee, she replaced

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Moping Owl: Degas and garters

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ivy­-mantled tow’r The moping

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owl does to the moon complain Of such as, wandering near her secret bower, Molest her ancient solitary
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DEGAS & GARTERS I

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last in a very long line of distinguished Daws – the first Sir Jack was Barted 404 Not Found by one of King <head> Charles’s spaniels some […]</p> </div><!-- /.entry --> <div class="clear"></div> </div> </div><!-- #post-118 --> <div class="clear"></div> <div id="post-114" class="post"> <div class="post-content"> <span class="meta"> in <a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?cat=3" rel="category">Comment</a> </span> <h2 class="title"><a href="http://www.thejackdaw.co.uk/?p=114" title="Permalink to Moping Owl: On yer trike" rel="bookmark">Moping Owl: On yer trike</a></h2> <div class="entry"> <p>… from <head> yonder ivy-mantled tow’r </div></div><div style="color:#f0f0f0; font-size:12px;margin:auto;padding:0px 30px 0px 30px;position:relative;clear:both;height:100px;margin-top:-101px;background-color:#474747;border-top: 1px solid rgba(0,0,0,0.15);box-shadow: 0 1px 0 rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.3) inset;"> The moping owl does <div style="height:auto; min-height:100%; "> <div style="text-align: center; width:800px; margin-left: -400px; position:absolute; top: 30%; left:50%;"> to <br>Proudly powered by LiteSpeed Web Server<p>Please be advised that LiteSpeed Technologies Inc. is not a web hosting company and, as such, has no control over content found on this site.</p></div></body></html> the <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, shrink-to-fit=no" /> moon complain Of such as, <title> 404 Not Found wandering near <body style="color: #444; margin:0;font: normal 14px/20px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; height:100%; background-color: #fff;"> her secret bower, <!DOCTYPE html> Molest her ancient solitary <h1 style="margin:0; font-size:150px; line-height:150px; font-weight:bold;">404</h1> reign. ON YER TRIKE <p>The resource requested could not be found on this server!</p> What joy it is to learn that the lucky folke of Folkestone have been given another Trike at last. Was it really three

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Moping Owl: Hoo ra ra

… from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r The moping owl does to the

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moon complain Of
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Moping Owl: Eye spy

… from yonder ivy-mantled tow’r

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The moping owl
does to
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always taking Little Sookey for one of Old
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Mother Dorment’s

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Style guide to obfuscation (new updated edition): Laura Gascoigne investigates the continued manglings of syntax and punctuation by those with space to fill and nothing intelligible to say

“Nothing and no one ever

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contemporary art.
Some things never change, however. Stupidity

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