The marble ladies at the Erehtheion temple on the Acropolis, the Karyatides, have been sharing their secret for thousands of years. If you've been there you must have heard the story whispers that travel around with the strong August winds. If you haven't, here is how it goes:
They say that if you look at them long enough, if you focus on their eyes in a long, painful silence, your pupils will expand, the surrounding landscape will disappear in order to make them the only center of attention. Their faces will start to shrink till they reach the size of a pin-needle head. It is precisely then, that they will jump out of their marble selves and stroll around the ruins, crossing all those passers by around them, who will never discover the secret you have.
One of them is in the London museum. But there, you see, there is no secret. The Karyatida of London will never have a heart.
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