Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
Live in danger. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius.
This eruption is much larger than the ones that are currently anticipated at Vesuvius. What would you do with the evacuation of 3 million people They're not coming back. There won't be anything to come back to.
The pattern is that every 2,000 to 3,000 years, there is a monstrous eruption (of Mount Vesuvius). And it has now been about 2,000 years.
We live too much in books and not enough in nature, and we are very much like the simpleton of a Pliny the Younger, who went on studying a Greek author while before his eyes Vesuvius was overwhelming five cities beneath the ashes.
I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.
Some of us still get all weepy when we think about the Gaia Hypothesis, the idea that earth is a big furry goddess-creature who resembles everybody's mom in that she knows what's best for us. But if you look at the historical record -- Krakatoa, Mt. Vesuvius, Hurricane Charley, poison ivy, and so forth down the ages -- you have to ask yourself Whose side is she on, anyway
Give me a condor's quill Give me Vesuvius crater for an inkstand
There was this Bronze Age eruption about 4000 years ago, and then 2000 years ago there was the 79AD event. It seems that just about every 2000 years, there's been a major eruption of this scale at Vesuvius.
For believe me --the secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is to live dangerously Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius Send your ships out into uncharted seas.
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