Perpetually Stolen Sculpture, Duke University

Passmoore, Works Of Alexander & I.V.

Why nocturnal vandals persist in absconding with it, we may never know. Known garden gnome thieves would seem suspect. Butler has this to say in Life and Habit: "No thief... is such an utter thief--so GOOD a thief--as the kleptomaniac. Until he has become a kleptomaniac, and can steal a horse as it were by a reflex action, he is still but half a thief, with many unthievish notions still clinging to him. Yet the kleptomaniac is probably unaware that he can steal at all, much less that he can steal so well. He would be shocked if he were to know the truth." Series Description: Scenes from the Harvard of the South, in Durham, North Carolina. Formerly Trinity College, it rose to prominence after a tobacco magnate opened his checkbook in the 1930s. See also dmoz.org/...Colleges and Universities/...Duke University/, and the Geisha series, painted at Lilly Library.