One fine day in AD 79
the happy city disappeared
for 1800 years
RECOGNIZE
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THE FONT? |
It sure looks like Times New Roman, the most comfortable choice among the myriad typefaces available today...AMAZING IS IT NOT... |
| Amazing is it not, I ponder as I watch the diggers done for the day, (Pompeii is immense and getting bigger every day) I'm sitting on a bench lean back against a Roman inscription so much much much more enduring |
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A single 2000 year old font And a human?
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and they were having such a | BROTHEL
This way |
wonderful TIME WHEN THE SKY FELL IN
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AND a series of six great eruptions |
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three more scorching the 2000 who hadn't fled and
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Buried them all |
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buried a city of 50,000 under 60 feet of ash |
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They fled to the boathouses and
suffocated under tons of ash.
The
ash hardened and formed
molds for the plaster replicas
on display
for guaranteed chills.
Take home lessons:
1. Don't ignore repeated large earthquakes when living next to volcanoes.
Many Pompeiians fled over the preceding years because of
"They vomit that they may eat,
they eat that they may vomit."
Seneca the Younger (4? B.C.-65 A.D.),
"On Consolation to Helvia (10.3), Moral Essays,
tr. John W. Basore, 1932
2. So Watch your diet:
and
3. Carpe EVERY possible BEAUTIFUL Diem
Vesuvius still menaces the ruins
of Pompeii, and Naples too.
And Even the Tourists
taking pictures
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