Eliot that a simple statue is not the best form.
"I should like," he says, "something irrelevant--gargoyles,
perhaps."
I think that Mr. Symonds has hit on something there.
I would suggest, if we Americans can pitch into this great
movement, some gargoyles designed by Mr. Rube Goldberg.
If the memorial could be devised so as to take on an
international scope, an exchange fellowship might be established
between England and America, although the exchange, in the case
of Stilton, would have to be all on England's side.
We might be allowed to furnish the money, however, while England
furnishes the cheese.
There is a very good precedent for such a bargain between the two
countries.
Robert Benchley, in _After 1903--What?_
When all seems lost in England there is still Stilton, an endless
after-dinner conversation piece to which England points with pride.
For a sound appreciation of this cheese see Clifton Fadiman's
introduction to this book.
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