Tagged: ainsitam
Mirror Maze
10 Jan 2021
Went for a wander with my friend Lisa—the current lockdown rules seem to be that one local walk for exercise per day with a maximum of one person not in one's "bubble" is fine—up to the University of Bristol area right at the edge of my one-mile perimeter to see the Jeppe Hein Mirror Maze, among other things. On the way we mused about Merchant Venturers, the slave and tobacco trades, and dating in the time of Covid.
University of Bristol motto: "[Learning] promotes one's innate power". This is from Horace's Odes.
Interesting coincidence (if indeed it is coincidence): the Merchant Venturers' motto, "ndocilis pauperiem pati"—"will not learn to endure poverty"—is also from the Odes. The University of Bristol traces its roots back to the Merchant Venturers' Technical College, founded ca. 1595.