5/18/2023 0 Comments Lynn sherr swimFor about 500 years, we shunned water – possibly because of its lack of cleanliness – but by the latter 1500s, humans were once again splashing away and inventing ways to get wet. Yes, humans swam until about the late Middle Ages… and then we stopped, for reasons that historians can only guess at. Early Greeks created coins depicting a skinnydip, and Roman noblemen thought swimming was one of “the manly arts.” A cave in the Eastern Sahara not only proves that there was water there once, but that humans swam in it. It doesn’t take much to imagine the first human who joyfully leaped into the water.Īncient Egyptians were so familiar with swimming that they created hieroglyphs for it. The red line on the thermometer has to be somewhere in the Hades which means the less you know, the more comfortable you’ll feel – although you won’t be totally comfortable until you get home and slip into the dip, take a cool plunge, have a cold drink while lounging in the drink.īut why do we – land animals that we are – spend so much time trying to be fish? In the new book “Swim: Why We Love the Water” by Lynn Sherr, you’ll wade into the answer. Looking at the temperature these days is not for the faint of heart.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |