The Critics故事

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The Critics故事
            WHILE bathing, Antinous was seen by Minerva, who was so enamoured
            of his beauty that, all armed as she happened to be, she descended
            from Olympus to woo him; but, unluckily displaying her shield, with
            the head of Medusa on it, she had the unhappiness to see the
            beautiful mortal turn to stone from catching a glimpse of it.  She
            straightway ascended to ask Jove to restore him; but before this
            could be done a Sculptor and a Critic passed that way and espied
            him.
            "This is a very bad Apollo," said the Sculptor: "the chest is too
            narrow, and one arm is at least a half-inch shorter than the other.
            The attitude is unnatural, and I may say impossible.  Ah! my
            friend, you should see my statue of Antinous."
            "In my judgment, the figure," said the Critic, "is tolerably good,
            though rather Etrurian, but the expression of the face is decidedly
            Tuscan, and therefore false to nature.  By the way, have you read
            my work on 'The Fallaciousness of the Aspectual in Art'?"