25-06-2020, 08:29 PM
(25-06-2020, 07:40 PM)-JKP- wrote: You are not allowed to view links. Register or Login to view.Koen, when I was blogging about the spewy things maybe being volcanoes, geysers, or steam vents, I looked for volcano narratives from the Middle Ages, and there were a number of them, but I like yours (Pliny) better. It seems to fit better than the ones I located.
The thought had never occurred to me before, but I like it as well. I happened to remember the text because in high school I had to translate it for Latin class and it left quite an impression, with the description of the mushroom cloud collapsing under its own mass and everything.