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We walked into a candlelit room at the Sir John Soane's museum last night at the perfect moment. An actor, gazing lovingly at a Grecian urn, was in the middle of reading Ode on a Grecian Urn . "Cold Pastoral!" he declaimed intensely, gazing lovingly at the pot. "When old age shall this generation waste, / Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe / Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, / 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all / Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know." He finished, but in that way of actors -- which I half love, half find desperately irritating -- stayed "in the moment", gazing at the urn, before gently kissing it. …

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