The First Way of Telling the Truth

I think I have a penchant for gloomy art. In high school, it was Albrecht Dürer's Knight, Death, and the Devil. Then there's Picasso's Guernica. Recently there was the guy in Rome who was burned at the stake and now stares eternally at the Vatican. And now there is Anonymous.

This statue sits behind Vajdahundyad Castle in the Városliget ("City Park"), Budapest. It was created in 1903 by a Hungarian, Miklós Legeti and is well-known as one of Budapest's favorite works of art. The statue is of a historian of a king of Hungary that almost nothing was known about except that he was an important contributor to the written history of the country. The statue was designed to hide everything except what was known about the man. His face is hidden, but he is in a contemplative stance with pen and paper in hand.

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There are only two ways of telling the complete truth--anonymously and posthumously.
-- Thomas Sowell (1930 - ?)