From the distant steps of the newly opened war monument it didn't so much resemble a double-sided statue as a displaced Besser brick – an odd disjunctive barrier to the eye following the otherwise unbroken land axis.
One of Blake's heroes is Mala, the dubstep pioneer who shook dub's steady beats on to a parallel axis – Blake traces the line further, going past Burial's night bus and into the coffee house and the jazz club.
12 MATT SCOTT 6/10 The training injury to Alex Dunbar broke up the Glasgow midfield axis but Scott was a forceful presence in the backline in his 40 minutes on the field.
Instead, set at the foot of Mount Ainslie (an elevation named after fake Scottish war hero, James Ainslie, that anchors the northern end of the land axis on the Griffins' plan of beautiful geometry and orbit) the casino was to feature a leisure park, al fresco cafes, a theatre and beer gardens.
This is the dramatic trifecta that pivots the 2013 election upon an unpredictable new axis.
He always saw Northern Ireland's future as linked to London, not quite as the unionists wanted it, but with London, not Dublin, as the main axis.
Then, suddenly, the camera turns on an axis to show us the view on the other side of the truck.
Not only did that result kill the notion of British party politics, it demonstrated that in Scotland "nation" (and its associated identity) had become the dominant axis upon which discourse, public policy and even crude party politics turned.
It is the axis of prayer writ large in concrete.
So could a debate about decision-making – one that fits less comfortably on a left/right axis than the argument about the size of the state – be a theme of the next parliament?
The struggle between the Sinaloa Federation and the Gulf/Zetas would continue to be a major axis of the escalating violence that followed President Felipe Calderón's launch of a military-led offensive against organised crime in December 2006.
