When I was a boy at St. Alban's Secondary School, the school took us on this cultural trip to observe art at one of the...One of those big famous London museums.

Anyway, when I was there, I came across this statue of a Greek goddess in marble.


Aphrodi... Aphrodite, something like that.


Beautiful, she was.


Perfect female form.


Chiselled features.


Exquisite.


I stood in awe of her.


Finally, the teacher calls us all over, and I'm walking past it, and on the way I notice, in the side of this Greek goddess, all these cracks, chips, imperfections.


Ruined her for me.

- Taken from Alfie