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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....



I don't doubt he told you that, and I'm sure he believed it, but I doubt it's true.

Human survival instincts do not include banging wrecklessly and bestiality in any source I've read.



Ha! Well I would only speak for myself to this point B, of course my instinct would be to SURVIVE, but, in the cases where people realize that they are Doomed, and yet have ample time to think about it (Dying and how to spend there last minutes), assuming at least 10 minutes like the people in the Twin Towers trapped above the explosions, or in situations like a Airliner unable to land properly and death is likely, I think people WOULD just start banging each other, if someone got the ball rolling...and that BAll-roller would be ME!

But in Pompeii's case, the volcanic lava apparently reached the city and people So Quickly, and apparently happened at night, that people really WERE caught in mid-activity in whatever they were doing. If you read accounts you will confirm this...of course, as I stated, you wont find descriptions of sex-at-the-time-of-death in most of these accounts, but I can believe it...no one had the chance to run from the lava.

I actually fantasize about this, ala Jay and Silent Bob in the movie Dogma, where Jay corners linda fiorentino's character Bethany into conceding that, if they ever wound up in a situation where death was certain, she'd bang the little shit


**Sidenote** For shits and giggles, I called a high class escort agency in San Francisco and asked for their hottest girl...since I was known to the people involved, we were able to get specific on the Phone as to what I was after. I was told, after asking for a 3 hour "ALL-INCLUSIVE FULL SERVICE", GFE with the lady, that it would run me an even 3,500 Bucks. I then used the line "Holy Shit! For 3500 she better fuck like Helen of Troy with her ASS ON FIRE...!" There was a 5 second pause follwed by a stammer "Uh...excuse me?" I said, "Nevermind, I will call you back..." I didnt get the payoff I was hoping for from using that line...obviously the telephone booking girl never read Homer, or even saw the Movie "Troy"...