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These appears all over the network.

Interesting how your perception changes once you hear there maybe an artist behind this - the fact that these were deliberately put there as a set, rather than just any old employee trying to inject a bit of Waterstones intellectualism to your commute.

It's a shame that if this is an artist project, the words may be taken more seriously than if it were just an employee?

Remember Paul Arden: "Call yourself an artist..."
Noogut
2008-08-12 20:40:08

I agree with Noogut. Clapham North have a fairly regular quote/thought for the day. And the fact that it comes from the anonymous bowels of the tube makes it all the more special.
Ed Wright
2008-08-13 09:34:19

You never know, even if it is an artist's project, it may inspire Underground employees to write their own quotes/ thoughts.
Luke
2008-08-13 10:26:19

I love this irrespective of whether it was instigated by the station workers or by Deller. It's quiet, subtle and very effective in my opinion.
AAA
2008-08-13 11:33:41

I saw this, it was at King's Cross, top of the escalator to the Victoria line. I walked past, caught the Hegel reference out of the corner of my eye and had to step back to see if I'd actually seen what I thought I had.
To me the most important thing here is not so much the quote itself, but the context, the surprise and the double-take.
Jeremy
2008-08-13 15:17:06

Brilliant.
When I worked for London Underground as an admin temp in their vast cubicle farms at Canary Wharf and Paddington, I used to anonymously reprogram all the scrolling marquee screensavers which were still showing default messages. I started off using film quotes and thought provoking philosophical nuggets to try to inject some humanity into my environment - but by the time I left three years later, most of the screens in the building were showing poems by Bukowski and some of the darker passages from American Psycho.
Rupert
2008-08-13 20:08:44

How long has Deller been working with LU? Here's a similar board from King's X back in March: http://tinyurl.com/5vhslg from the LU Temporary Notices Group (http://www.flickr.com/groups/lu-temp-signs/pool/). (p.s. Rupert is my new hero).
James Bridle
2008-08-15 10:20:12

"it may inspire Underground employees to write their own quotes/ thoughts."

...such as, 'I hate my job', 'I hate my life' and 'I hate people'.
jim
2008-08-15 15:43:28

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