Three baths
At the surface of the fresco, two robed patrons kneel. Below them lies a crumbling skeleton. Between the skeleton and the patrons there is a warning written in Latin. “We are all going to die,” it says.
When I told Amy about the warning on the bottom of Trinity she laughed and said that she’d keep it in mind. I should not have expected Amy to understand. She comes from a good family. When she visits her mother, there are salads and desserts in addition to the entrees. And the house she grew up in, she tells me, had three baths. No person with so many baths in her childhood home can be expected to recognize the importance of death.
