In Pompeii there was no shame about it. Sex was just a part of life... brothels were for the poor and working class people... the rich could afford concubines...
Pliny the Younger watched the blast from the nearby town of Misenum and managed to escape with his life as the cloud of ash and pumice nearly overcame him and his mother. He wrote that the cloud of ash created total darkness, "as if the light had been put out in a closed room. You could hear the shrieks of women, the wailing of infants, and the shouting of men... Many besought the aid of gods, but still more imagined there were no gods left, and that the universe was plunged into eternal darkness for evermore."
There remain 'Signs of life amid the ruins...'
Composed of two captures superimposed...
For your CRITIQUE ... please... especially from Italian members who know the site... and have walked the excavations! Per favore... soprattutto dai membri italiani che sa il luogo... e ha camminato le escavazioni!
To VR: Always a pleasure to come back to familiar places... FYI The painting was taken a couple of weeks ago while walking around Pompeii... while the young lady was taken in Ravello/Amalfi one evening at a taverna... her ancestors must have survived the eruption as did Pliny... thank you!
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{K:10189} 10/22/2004
