Another great quote from the Pendergast novels by Preston and Child. The books make wonderful summer reading. They have little redeeming intellectual value but are very engaging. You can read one in a day or two. Think Louis Lamour or Earle Stanley Gardener.

The photograph is of the special oarlock that gondoliers use. Actually it is a photo of a postcard that I bought at the oarlock workshop. We also toured the last gondola factory in Venice.