Saturday 28 October: The dog stuck her heel in his back and ran it the whole way from his shoulder to his hip

Face of freedom, 1886

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1886 US President Grover Cleveland officially dedicates 156-ft copper and steel Statue of Liberty in New York, a gift to the US from the people of France 
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If you were to spell out numbers, you would have to go as far as "one thousand" before finding the letter "A". 
20:04

I got me an inner-city haircut. The barber was working it grew up around here. Surprised I was to learn, his ma is involved in the anti-prostitution league around the corner. 

Fingers of freedom, 1886

He had the shite beat out of him loads as a younglad. Scars on his back and all, he says when they whipped him with a dog chain up in the Phoenix Park. Knocked him out. He fell over the ghetto blaster they were tryin' to steal off him, he says. He wouldn't let them rob it off him and they couldn't move him off it.


The dog stuck her heel in his back and ran it the whole way from his shoulder to his hip. While he was out of it. It was a German Shepard who belonged to the chain. Can only see it when he's tanned now, he says.


He blended it in number three for me and took the weight off the side. Says they should knock that pub next door. Yer man owns loads of bars about the place. Nobody can prove he is tipping drugs but they're all saying it. It's well known, there's no evidence or anthin'. Knowarriemeain?

Shoulder of freedom, Paris workshop, 1885

Told him I was thinking about taking up self defence just to get home at night. He said he's up to black belt ju jitsu now. Some triple martial art kick boxing ultimate aikido thing. He's not allowed to use it on the street. He'd be put in jail if he touched someone. Hands are lethal weapons, y'know?
"D'ye want much off the top? "

21:41

For his ma the turning point was when herself and her husband looked out the front window because they heard noises and there they were the two o dem going at it in the front garden because they had no where to go.

Freedom's toes, 1885