That Greek one then is my hero, who watched the bath water
rise above his navel and rushed out naked. “I found it,
I found it” into the street in all his shining, and forgot
that others would only stare at his genitals. What laughter!

Daniel "Dannie" Abse (1923–2014) Welsh poet
Poem (1952), “Letter to Alex Comfort,” Walking Under Water
    (Source)

Referring to Archimedes.

 
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