Where art is jealous of science

Mike Mennonno spends some time gazing upon the statutes of Art and Science outside the McKim side of the BPL (you know, the two seated bronze women) and concludes that the statue of Art is clearly jealous of Science, in part because she's staring at Science's ball, while Science could give a flying fig about what Art is up to:

... Science has this sort of haughty look on her face. Because she knows Art would like to snatch that ball from her. And Art looks pensive. Maybe aside from coveting Science's ball, she's afraid Science is gonna up and nail her with it, and Art's got both hands full. She'd have a rough time dodging it. ...

Ed note: I think Mike is onto something. All these years, and I've never paid the least bit of attention to Art. But I'm drawn to Science, probably because every time I see her, I think of this scene in "100 Years of Solitude," where the family patriarch, after a couple of years of, well, solitude, picks up an orange at the dinner table and announces to his family: "The world is round - like an orange" (they eventually tie him to a tree in the yard, I seem to recall).