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. But as human gesture against the apocalypse, I think such stuff only happens in abstractions like Opera or unhinged societies like Pompeii, itself and abstraction.



Funny you should mention Pompeii, one of my old Latin Professors confessed to us one day after several bottles of Vino that the first excavation of Pompeii found a number of couples (straight and Gay, and reputedly one Man-dog coupling) Frozen and encased in Volcanic Ashe. Benefits of a classical Education which you will not find in any mainstream textbook on the destruction of Pompeii....