Then, Matt, we have the right heading on where you are going. Thanks for the clarification and so fast!
Birmingham is a major industrial and cultural center in the Midlands of the U.K. The University is famous for its work on many, many scientific projects such as the physics and engineering that contributed to the British A-bomb and it's Philosophy department has had a good international reputation. The Medical School produces about 100 doctors per year. One of them was yours truly. A little known gem is that digitalis, (the universally used standard for many heart failure issues), was "discovered" after the life of a famous citizen was saved by a brew from foxglove flowers provided to his doctor by a woman proficient in the properties of herbs.
The Orchestra, made famous by the stellar baton of
Sir Simon Rattle, BTW has continued its reputation as world class and fabulous! That creative edgy modern approach reflects much of this successful thriving metropolis.
The other, rather torrid, Faustian side of Birmingham, as in all great cities, is that there are many folk who have fallen or been knocked of the society's platform, so to speak. These are inn the in the shadows. That's the bad bargain of city life.
Here, one such person is illuminated but the the woman passing by are obscured as if they are devalued here! This remarkable reversal puts emphasis on the world we choose to ignore (and pass by with some private internal pain and embarrassment) without making eye contact.
You have done a good job of shocking us to look further.
Asher
