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There is a reference to a headless bust of the poet Pindar in Alexander Pope's Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot. A Pindar and a Pope in the same place! Interesting, huh? Alexander Pope is a satirical poet, so the idea of a headless bust may be just meant to ridicule the target of his poetry here, but it is an interesting conjunction, and one that brings to my mind the idea of the truncated pyramid. Worth thinking about?
His library (where busts of poets dead
And a true Pindar stood without a head,)
Receiv’d of wits an undistinguish’d race,
Who first his judgment ask’d, and then a place:
Much they extoll’d his pictures, much his seat,
And flatter’d ev’ry day, and some days eat:
Till grown more frugal in his riper days,
He paid some bards with port, and some with praise,
To some a dry rehearsal was assign’d,
And others (harder still) he paid in kind