Temple, according to Finlay's definition, signifies a sacred place or a place menaced by bailiffs. The accompanying image is taken after Claude Lorrain's "Landscape with Apollo." The poem refers to the buiding housing Finlay's artworks, "Temple" and seizure of these works by bailiffs because of a local tax dispute. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Temple denotes the exhibition space at Finlay's residence. The caption under an image of a Greek temple includes a definition, a quote from The Metamorphosis of Ovid, and the storming of Finlay's Temple by the Strathclyde region tax collectors who launched a surprise attack on Budget day, March 15, and successfully looted the garden TEMPLE. The definition is "a marbled edifice, a veined edifice; the seat or summit of reason." -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.