Thursday, August 24, 2006
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Plato is no longer a planet.
And I am no longer a star. (Whether that is in my own private universe or wherever...)
How... Disturbing, actually, for I loathe Pluto (the mythological character, not the Disney dog!)
How fitting still, for it reflects this valley that I am threading these days... Almost as bad, metaphorically speaking, as it was a whooping nineteen hundred and twenty-seven years ago today, in the year of Our Lord 79 - when Mount Vesuvius erupted, burying the Roman cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum in volcanic ash and killing an estimated 20,000.
"Wish I was there" or rather wish that I had been a contemporary "face in the crowd" then - at least, it would have been short-lived suffocation.
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