Posed there, with the house mushrooming over them in grainy black and white, you can hardly tell them apart.
On a recent Sunday afternoon, hundreds of tourists, mostly from mainland China, posed there for pictures, some giddy, some solemn, most of them clearly adoring.
Still, it is not hard to imagine him preparing love philters and celebrating the lewd rites of Bacchus with the anonymous but evidently willing streams of women who posed there for the suburban Polaroid warrior.
At times in the markets of Venice, Verona and Arles I have longed to buy the plump octopus and tiny crabs, the peaches and plums, the broad beans and squashes, the blue-legged hens and well-fed geese so seductively posed there and then be transported to my own Sag Harbor kitchen.
However, for the extensive range of questions posed, there was one vital query noticeable for its absence: What newspaper do you read?
Among the questions we posed, there was no single factor that was considered by at least 80%% of our experts as important for determining the volume and/or rate of the agent administered.
