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“Goddammit! How does the world keep spinning with women on the planet?"Ian St. John in THE POMPEII SCROLL”
Jacqueline LaTourrette“For them, it was just an ordinary miracle.”
Robert Harris, Pompeii“But if you close your eyes,does it almost feel like nothing changed at all?”
Bastille Pompeii“People will perish, but books are immortal. (Pompeii)”
Robert Harris“If there was a volcano under their feet, a Vesuvius that could erupt and bury this modern-day Pompeii at any moment, the best thing to do was dance on it. ”
Deborah Davis, Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X“Nature has granted man no better gift than the shortness of life. The senses grow dull, the limbs are numb, sight, bearing, gait, even the teeth and alimentary organs die before we do, and yet this period is reckoned a portion of life." - Pg. 82”
Robert Harris, Pompeii“Civilization was a relentless war that man was doomed to lose eventually. - Pg. 195”
Robert Harris, Pompeii“People perish. Books are immortal.”
Robert Harris, Pompeii“And the great thing about money is that it doesn’t matter when you harvest it. It’s an all-year crop.”
Robert Harris, Pompeii“The human body cannot survive being in temperatures over 200 degrees centigrade for more than a few moments, especially in the fast moving current of a surge. Trying to breathe in the dense cloud of hot ash in the absence of oxygen would lead to unconsciousness in a few breaths, as well as causing severe burns to the respiratory tract... On the other hand, survival is possible in the more distal parts of a surge if there is adequate shelter to protect against the surge flow and its high temperature, as well as the missiles (rocks, building materials) entrained in the moving cloud of material.”
Encylopaedia of Volcanoes