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Some of the University’s most historic buildings can be seen in a new light as part of a three-day sound and fire spectacular on Broad Street. For three hours each night, from 7-10pm on Thursday 15 until Saturday 17 March, electric lights will be switched off. Instead the area will be transformed by the light of a thousand flickering fires.

Following extensive safety and insurance checks, the University gave the go-ahead for its buildings to be illuminated as part of the fire installation which is part of the Oxfordshire 2007 celebrations.

Strings of pots containing lit candles will illuminate the Clarendon Building and Sheldonian Theatre, a giant candelabra hangs outside Balliol College, while in the centre of Broad Street a 15 metre spire of bamboo and metal with a slow-moving pendulum will make approximately 1,000 swings, each swing cycle representing a single year of Oxfordshire’s history. A programme of live music by Oxford Contemporary Music will accompany the event.

「人生不如一行波特萊爾」的出處。

或阿呆の一生（あるあほうのいっしょう）は、芥川龍之介作の小説。「改造」1927年10月号に掲載された。