The sun shines bright on the Mediterranean, and in the year 280 B.C. a certain Chares of Lindus completed a tremendous image of a being he conceived to be the god of that sea's warm sun. The Colossus towered 105 feet above Rhodes for 56 years, then toppled in an earthquake. Great fragments lay about for almost nine centuries, until Saracens sold them to a scrap-metal dealer, who carried them away on the backs of 900 camels.
Last week the sun was still warm at Rhodes. Metal fragments fell by the city and the earth...
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