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of a church tower rising up just above the surface of a pond, suggesting that the church itself has sunken deeply. This partly mysterious quality was
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since 1987, but with skaters skating on eleven ponds instead of by eleven cities). During soccer tournaments Dutch and German students occupy the tower alternately to hang national flags on, and during
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and others, but his relations with the established art world were troubled and by the early 1970s he was working almost exclusively on writing and making television shows for the
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