Kazi Kama-Sutra
From Mr Paul Carlin Sir: Re: 'Smart arses' (4 May). In 1970, as a guard commander detached from the pleasures of Buller Barracks, Aldershot to ensure the safety and security of an old cavalry barracks on the other side of the town, which were then unused but awaiting a decision on their future, I happened to use the toilets on the first floor of the line nearest the guardroom. I was startled to find, in the first cubicle, the largest and most detailed triptych I have ever seen at such close range; each panel was uniquely individual in its depiction of a huge number of separate instances of the human sexual act. It was clearly the work of a talented and very imaginative artist.
I believe the barracks was demolished shortly thereafter, with the loss to the nation of this brilliant and inspired, although unsigned, piece of work. Shame.
Paul Carlin
paul@papacharlie.freeserve.co.uk
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