The Fountain of Zum Zum

It’s real, not a children's tale

When dinosaurs walked the earth and I was a boy, my daddy used to tell me the story of the fountain of Zum Zum. I cannot remember where my daddy told me it was located, but I vividly remember the tale of its magic properties. If you were dipped into it, you got eternal youth or became invincible. A bit, I later learned, like Thetis with her little son Achilles dipped by his heel in the Styx.

I still think of the story of Zum Zum, but as one grows up, one smiles at the tale. Fantastic. Unreal. Not so. Idly scanning the web, I learned there is a Spanish Adventure park that offers a dip in the Zum Zum waters (no name, as I cannot do adverts; I do not work for the New England Journal of Medicine).

Hard on the heels of this discovery came Carl’s usual “have you seen this:

Laura Donnelly, Health Editor

30 August 2024 • 8:10 pm

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