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of Ai Weiwei’s work either, Ai Weiwei for example had famously, as the museums like to say, famously, dropped a two-thousand year-old Han dynasty urn so it smashed at his feet, well there was nothing as shocking as that here, nothing shocking at all, the pink couple jiving on top of the pink make-believe circus tent would be forever jiving, norwere thepandas remotelyconsidering copulating, they were standing around in a little triangle of grass, just as the butterflies on stilts all kept decent distances to one another, and as for the turtles, forget it, despite floating in the air on stilts they still lumbered among the pink blue and orange jellyfish, maybe hoping for a second Mr Darwin to come by, a vain hope, to lend them a new lease of significance. Past the placid animals and the toadstools it was true there were action figures, warriors, not far from the main gates—here he remembered to go his favourite route, through the rows of pleached trees—if I saw theword pleached written down, he began thinking, if I showed it around, it would have people running to the dictionary, whereas he hadn’t done that, he had arrived at pleached the other way about, yes, he saw how the trees had been shaped and afterwards he walked, as it were, strolled across to the many dictionaries, gardening manuals, reference books, and teased out the word he was searching for, pleached , no, he thought, that’s it, there it is, I’m not going to explain. At the end of the rows of so-skilfully pleached young trees stood the red blackandyellowwarriors, well at least therewereno tanks, no howitzers; the warriors had no moving parts, no sound, they looked fierce but posed not the slightest danger, besides which who knew whose side they were on. Again, he wouldn’t waste time and energy figuring out why this or that, maybe he should add analysing to the caveats on explaining and apologising, had 221