Slag has installed an air-pressure system for the shop which made painting the jugs and the metal Romanesque Arch easy. Later we set the Jugs in concrete on site - you can see their long anchor bolts which Slag crafted from scrap.

We decided to change the model radically with Venus: instead of hanging an Alpha Rock from the Lintel, we were going to hang a smaller rock under a steel Romanesque Arch and then, for the focal-piece, we were going to attach a Bill Allen wrought Snake to the rock so that the Snake coiled around the stone as if it were the Orphic Egg itself. An association we would not disabuse.

"Oltre la Morte!" Says the black bandana which Slag wears as a head-band. Pooler and I bought a bunch of them in an Italian Military Surplus shop. Beyond Death. Brave swagger for an army which hasn't won a major battle since Mussolini's Ethiopian Campaign. Pooler thinks they lend Kenny an insouciance & a glamour that only a Pop Star like Mina can approximate. Mina, Like Bruno, had once fled Italy & Pooler knew her from Switzerland. There were rumors that Barber Perfect had once been one of her lovers. Both deny it, but the great thing about rumors is that they are very much more elastic than the truth and they tend to live longer. So we wear the silly things but only a man like Giordano Bruno could truly know what a motto like "Beyond Death" could really mean.

The thing about the Rose, the thing about Beauty, about Venus, Mina, and Death - to a guy like Bruno - was this: "God has nothing to do with us except insofar as he imparts himself to the effects of Nature." God is not Personal. Spinoza, closest to Bruno in theology, said: "God is indwelling and not the transient cause of things." Being the last - the "transient cause of things" is Man's responsibility, Quantum or Classic, It's why God needs us just as much as we need God. Maybe we are Shiva to God's Vishnu and both of us together form Bramha.