PINS – Rule Nine: Move 2 – That Which Cannot Be Altered
Things cannot be fully explained because it’s Move 2, which as the rules shown in Rule Eight state, “cannot be altered, except by Pin and Local Decision.”
In order not to alter anything we advise you to read Rule Nine. And peruse the following photocopies in case you need further inspiration.
A photograph of a collage using photocopies pencils, and pen and ink, showing a vaguely threatening situation the curator thought up. It reminds him of a regular Saturday night in Accrington in the late 1980s. The heads are those of Edward VIII. One is the bust that appeared on the standard issue postage stamps, whilst the other (the three-quarter portrait) is from a broken coronation mug, inexpertly glued together, and still in the curator’s possession. This was saved from the royalist (East Lancastrian) side of the family. Other images are the Spanish police, made suitably anonymous and given more rustic aspect; the first depiction of Britannia (modelled, suposedly, on Charles I’s mistress, Nel Gwynne); and an old acquaintance of the curator’s from his Bollenstreek Party years. This image is housed in a stamp album full of empty leaves, once used and since abandoned by the curator’s father, to house his collection of old French stamps of the various republics and empires the French have had since the first release (depicting Ceres, goddess of corn) in 1849. This is an image specially prepared for Move 2, which cannot be altered.
A photograph of a photocopy of a photograph of a page from a book on flowers and garden shrubs, in which we see a listing of some Hardy Plants. The book is called The Flower Garden, and written by T.W. Sanders, F.L.S., F.R.H.S.. This is the third edition and is printed by W.H. & L. Collingridge, (“Amateur Gardening” Office, 148 & 149 Aldersgate Street, E.C. 1). The curator suspects this is a wartime or Austerity edition, given the relatively thin paper and inexpensive bind. But it does have a number of coloured plates, including the frontispiece, which shows “A Colony of Stately Eremurl”. This is an image specially prepared for Move 2, which cannot be altered.
A photograph of a photocopy of a photograph of a page from a book on flowers and garden shrubs, called The Johnny Garden Book (Arthur Prensky, Garden Publications Ltd., 55 Russell Sq., London, W.C.1. 1950). The illustration shows raised patios and walkways, and accompanies an instructive text on how to build them. Eagle eyed viewers will note the instruction to see the previous page. This is an image specially prepared for Move 2, which cannot be altered.
