In Popular Culture
The death of Kelly and preceding events has served as an inspiration for artistic tributes and dramatisations including "Harrowdown Hill" by Thom Yorke and a painting titled Death of David Kelly (2008) by Dexter Dalwood. Simon Armitage's has published a poem, titled 'Hand-Washing Technique - Government Guidelines' and subtitled 'i.m. Dr David Kelly' - hinting at an internal cover up.
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“Popular culture is seductive; high culture is imperious.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher—a Roosevelt, a Tolstoy, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It’s the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.”
—Margaret Mead (1901–1978)