Chiseled commandments, invisible ink
On basketball's strange spectrum of deference and how it is to feel humbled.
Perseus, nude, 7’9”. In one hand, an adamantine harpe, a sickle sword, given to him by his father, Zeus, in the other the still writhing head of Medusa. His expression is sleepy, if a little smug. The sculpture, by Antonio Canova, Perseus Triumphant or Perseus with the Head of Medusa, was bought by the Vatican as a replacement for the Apollo Belvedere, …
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