Sorry for the title; I just wanted the opportunity to put those two words together. The reason they can legitimately go together is that the other day I bought a pair of (new) pants and this was in the pocket:
That’s right – inside my pocket was a slide of amphoras/vases in some Mediterranean market. After getting over my shock of:
a) Finding something inside my new pocket
b) Discovering that that “something” was an archaic thing that my kids will almost certainly not understand
I found myself wondering where the actual photo was taken. Was this a fleeting memory of someone’s Moroccan vacation in the summer of 1950, transposed to my pants in 2009? Perhaps instead it is actually a photo of a movie set in California where they’re filming a Roman movie. I’ve definitely never had a pair of pants make me think this much before…