Comments on: Five-metre-tall ‘flame’ monument to Mintoff: what do you think? https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/ Daphne Caruana Galizia is a journalist working in Malta. Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050762 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:33:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050762 I cannot understand a word you wrote. I’d like to, because it’s a discussion the nation should have had long ago.

Can you rephrase? And what Kenneth Zammit Tabona?

]]> By: H.P. Baxxter https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050760 Sat, 29 Aug 2015 18:30:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050760 Ejja naqbzu flimkien. Imbaghad hallihom jaghmlulna sugary obituaries fuq zghazagh fil-fjur ta’ hajjithom. F**** kemm etc.

]]> By: Jon jon https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050729 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 17:17:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050729 A hamallata befitting il-Perit, insomma.

I’ll be waiting with bated breath for Kenneth Zammit Tabona’s virulent objection on the basis of aesthetics.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050715 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 14:06:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050715 In reply to Richard J. Caruana.

It’s not a memorial, though, is it. Memorials are for the dead.

]]> By: Richard J. Caruana https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050709 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:49:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050709 An Independence memorial is situated at the Valletta end of the Mall in Floriana.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050704 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 13:11:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050704 Well, actually, what I wrote is: May God rot his soul.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050702 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:57:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050702 Or as somebody said to me, a five-metre-high flame cast in bronze and placed right next to the Times of Malta building is the perfect memorial to Dom Mintoff.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050701 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:27:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050701 But then again, the statue originally proposed is such bad, bad art.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050698 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 12:10:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050698 Independence has not died.

But I agree with you about Mintoff’s memorial.

]]> By: Daphne Caruana Galizia https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/2015/08/five-metre-tall-flame-monument-to-mintoff-what-do-you-think/#comment-3050694 Fri, 28 Aug 2015 00:15:00 +0000 http://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/?p=68478#comment-3050694 In reply to Spock.

The North Korean monument:

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