Gormley’s Fourth Plinth: The Public As Dead Man Walking

“[T]he spooky and shocking aspect is the march to the scaffold. … It reminded me of nothing so much as Dickens’ great account in A Tale of Two Cities of Sydney Carton being led through the streets to the guillotine in a tumbril during the French Revolution. Did Gormley intend to evoke anything so gruesome, I wonder?”