A golden pineapple on grey Trumpington Street
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A golden pineapple on grey Trumpington Street
Image: © A J Paxton Taken: 16 Aug 2019
A gilded pineapple finial on the railings outside the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. "Grau, teurer Freund, ist alle Theorie Und grün des Lebens goldner Baum." Grey, my dear friend, is every theory, And green alone life’s golden tree. Goethe, Faust, Part 1, lines 2038-2039, translation by Walter Kaufmann. Words spoken to a student by the demon Mephistopheles, so not necessarily to be trusted...
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