Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Timeline - Waterpolo 3, by Mario Arroyave, 2013. © Mario Arroyave, courtesy the artist and Artemisa Contemporary Latin American Art, New York.
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Miscellany
“Waters from snow and ice are all bad,” opined Hippocrates of Cos around 400 bc. “Once frozen, water never recovers its original nature, but the clear, light, sweet part is separated out and disappears.” Such melted waters, he declared, “are the worst for all purposes.”
There’s folks ’ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.
—George Eliot, 1859Lapham’sDaily
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