That’s a very
odd coloured wood, it looks more like concrete!
Number 6 made his own tools,
seeing as basically abstract art is primitive. Stone axe, chisels this is
hardly doing as the caveman did as suggested by Number 2. Stone age man used
proper cutting tools made from flint. When Number 6 is felling that tree during
‘The Chimes of Big Ben,’ I’ve gone through that piece of film frame by frame and
I cannot see where a metal axe {as opposed to the stone axe} is used to make
those cuts in the tree trunk! Even though Number 6 had been using a stone axe
which he apparently was, there’s no proper cutting edge to it, its blunt! But
never the less Number 6 used the axe to fell a tree, to cut away the branches
and bark, and then the stone chisels to hollow out the trunk of the tree to
fashion the hull of a boat. Not to mention the mast and crosspiece, as well as
the abstract bottom of the boat. Boat did I say, Number 6’s coracle was flat
bottomed, it would not have behaved well at sea, having no keel. What’s more
the bottom of the boat had holes in it. The tarpaulin which was used to wrap
the hull of the boat, and give support to the bottom, would have been soaked
with sea water, making Number 6’s craft most unseaworthy. 30 miles along the
coat, I’d have been surprised if it made 30 feet!
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