Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain. . . threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, … - Semir Zeki

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To be a man requires that you accept everything life has to give you, beginning with your name.

Semir Zeki

Apparently, a cleaner at Tate Britain. . . threw out a bag of rubbish, accidentally we are told, that was part of an exhibition supposedly emphasizing 'the finite existence of art'. . . The cleaner evidently had no time to question the relationship of his or her being to the rubbish bag, and reached the right conclusion.

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