Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
The Cheat with the Ace of Diamonds, by George de la Tour, c. 1635. Louvre Museum, Paris.
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Vladimir Nabokov referred to Thomas Mann once as a “quack” and to Ezra Pound as “that total fake.”
Someone who knows too much finds it hard not to lie.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947Lapham’sDaily
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