Fitness instructor carves his girlfriend’s name into the Colosseum.
Detail of the center panel of The Garden of Earthly Delights triptych, by Hieronymous Bosch, c. 1500. © Prado, Madrid / Bridgeman Images.
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Andean legends tell of pishtacos, bogeymen who steal their victims’ fat. In colonial times they were said to be Franciscan monks who used the fat as church-bell grease or holy oil. By the 1960s they were sometimes represented as workers who used it to lubricate modern factory machinery or airplane engines.
To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Lapham’sDaily
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