This symbol from the
box-style I Ching is
echoed by a French ad for
the 2006 film "Scoop"–
This film may be taken as
foreshadowing the afterlife
of the late Fleet Street
figure Richard Stott.
Stott, along with film
directors Ingmar Berman
and Michelangelo Antonioni,
died on Monday (July 30).
He is, we may suppose,
the mysterious third man
in Tuesday's remark by
the mayor of Rome:
"With Antonioni dies not only
one of the greatest directors
but also
a master of modernity."
Dogs and Lampposts,
by Richard Stott
The title of Stott's book
is from H. L. Mencken,
who is said to have felt
that the proper relationship
of a journalist to a politician
is that of a dog to a lamppost.