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The invention of the windmill

posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:34am on 10/10/2008 under
During one game of Call My Bluff I had just finished what I thought was a convincing definition, claiming that a particular word related to the invention of the windmill. Alan shook his head at me and declared: 'Nonsense, Toksvig. Everyone knows that the windmill was invented for the sole purpose of filling up the blank bits in the back of 16th-century Flemish paintings.'


From the Sandi Toksvig in the Telegraph, 28 Sept '07, by way of Windmill World

Those medieval paintings? Just warming up for the main show, of course.
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posted by [identity profile] rhube.livejournal.com at 10:46am on 10/10/2008
LOL - I love Sandi Toksvig.
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posted by [identity profile] sioneva.livejournal.com at 05:17pm on 10/10/2008
Pshaw, medieval paintings - just untrained, inadequate, and inept preparation for the grand (magical) advent of the Renaissance!
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posted by [identity profile] sollersuk.livejournal.com at 07:28pm on 10/10/2008
Of course they were. They were part of the evolution of landscape painting (or, rather, re-evolution: if the Romans had had windmills, landscape painting would never have dropped out)
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