Last week, the debt seemed slightly different: never, it seemed, had so many done so much to revere a single speech by a former leader.
The photographs, many done for Life magazine with which he was associated for 20 years, are by far the main attraction, but samples of his poetry, musical compositions and stills from films he directed accompany them.
Some marchers were evidently veterans, and to prove it had the waterproofed provisions, placards (many done for the occasion by Guardian cartoonist and local lad Martin Rowson) and stoical children pre-strapped to bike seats.
Like Brodsky, Milosz considered himself first, second, and third a poet, but while Brodsky is, without question, the singular Russian poet of his generation, his translations, many done by himself, are inconsistent at best; Milosz, with help from the American poet Robert Hass, lives more easily in English verse than his great friend and fellow Nobel Laureate.
His productions -- many done in partnership with his wife, Elizabeth -- included "Salome," for the Royal Opera House in 1988, for the Washington Opera in 1990 and for the San Francisco Opera in 1993; "Carmen," for Glyndebourne in 1987; and "Orfeo" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream" for Glyndebourne in 1989.
In terms of the depositing, floating, and sinking construction technologies of long, large-diameter tube sections, some water dynamic physical model tests were carried out for immersed tube sections, many done for specific projects.
