I hate being stuck anywhere, but I simply can’t imagine being stuck in an elevator…for 41 hours. The New Yorker posted a time-lapse video of Nicholas White, who was stuck in the elevator of New York City’s McGraw Hill building for nearly two days. The video was recorded by the elevator security camera, which has to make you wonder who is really watching these things?

My favorite part of the video (if that is fair to say…it is actually hard to watch) is the very end when they casually place a sign in the elevator that I can imagine says something to the effect of “Not currently working.” When I studied Ancient Greek literature, we often came across a certain rhetorical device called litotes which is an understatement in which an affirmative is expressed by negating its opposite. I would say the placement of that sign would fit right into many of the Greek stories I used to read. Litotes indeed.