Swimming Pools
A series of private pools suggests the 1968 Burt Lancastar film, “The Swimmer,” (based on a John Cheever story) in which a man decides to swim a “river” of backyard swimming pools in an affluent neighborhood to make his way home. Along the way, encounters with his neighbors produce a soul–crushing epiphany that he is not nearly the beloved, respected, successful man he had deluded himself into believing.
“The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.”
– Woodrow Wilson
“She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you’re swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water’s deeper than you think and there's nothing there.”
– Julia Gregson, East of the Sun
“I grew up watching ‘Superman.’ As a child, when I first learned to dive into a swimming pool, I wasn’t diving, I was flying, like Superman. I used to dream of rescuing a girl I had a crush on from a playground bully.”
– Tom Hiddleston
“This life is like a swimming pool. You dive into the water, but you can't see how deep it is.”
– Dennis Rodman
“While I’m swimming, I sing songs in my mind.”
– Aleksandr Popov
