Sometime in the early 1950s, the Great Antonio began pulling trains, cars, and buses in Montreal—either empty or full, with a chain or with his hair—and lifting whatever else he could. The Grand Antonio, Antonio the Great, Narcissus. I went to Montreal’s McCord Stewart Museum and spent a few afternoons in the Antonio Barichievich archives, which author Élise Gravel donated following the publication of her children’s book The Great Antonio a decade ago. “The Great Antonio is asking for a thousand million dollars for his oil painting.” “Six Mysteries of the Planet Earth” include the statues on Easter Island, the landing strips in Nazca, Peru, and “the mysterious strength of The Great Antonio.”