Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Watson and the Shark, by John Singleton Copley, 1778. National Gallery of Art, Washington DC.
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Around noon on April 27, 1932, while aboard a steamship southeast of Florida, poet Hart Crane, intoxicated and still wearing his pajamas, jumped overboard. The ship’s captain later told Crane’s companion, Peggy Cowley, “If the propellers didn’t grind him to mincemeat, then the sharks got him immediately.”
The snotgreen sea. The scrotumtightening sea.
—James Joyce, 1922Lapham’s
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