and Observations: * The painting was sold to someone who later donated it to the college. * "Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale." (Gabriel Garcia Marquez) * "America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else . . .. America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy." (Samuel Eliot…