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...fires destroyed much of the interior of the top two floors of the house, but the outside walls remained mostly intact. Most of the windows on the top two floors were smashed and mounds of wet ash and burnt furniture littered the third floor. Water also leaked through a hole in the ceiling and may have damaged the first floor kitchen...
...grace under pressure" vanished in the early '60s. Burnout is the perfect disorder for an age that lives to some extent under the Doctrine of Discontinuous Selves. It simply declares one's self to be defunct, out of business; from that pile of ash a new self will arise. In the democracy of neurosis, everyone is entitled to his own apocalypse. Burnout becomes the mechanism by which people can enact their serial selves, in somewhat the way that divorce permits serial marriages. In some cases, the serial selves of burnout are like the marshmallows that Cub Scouts thrust...
...remains of Pompeii and Herculaneum were being excavated, in a clumsy treasure-hunting way, from the volcanic ash that had shrouded and preserved them since the eruption of Vesuvius in A.D. 79. Elsewhere in Italy, the ruins of Roman public life could easily be seen-temples, stadia, places of assembly. But the archaeology of Naples gave the visitor a sense of how the ancients lived when at home-when they came off their plinths, shed their cuirasses hérdïques and settled down with their wine cups and mild painted pornography, no longer behaving like noble Romans. Naples...
...utility poles turned into charred matchsticks by the intense heat (temperatures reached millions of degrees at the centers of the explosions); earthquake-resistant buildings crumpled by the shock waves; human flesh burned 2½ miles from the targets. Less well known, perhaps: the sticky black rain, triggered by hot ash and dust blasted up into the cold air, that showered deadly radioactive fallout on the cities...
...patrons will have to make do with the shops and restaurants. Not that those aren't quite enough in themselves. Here, for example, are some of the Pedro/South of the Border souvenir items one can purchase in the 17 stores: velvet paintings, toilet seats, wall hangings, purses, change purses, ash trays, mugs (at least five varieties), salt and pepper shakers, toothpicks and holders, sun visors, jugs, shirts (uncountable selection), measuring cups, placemats, letter holders, desk organizers, soap dishes, "Pedro's paddles", baby pants, baby bibs, back scratcher, coasters, pencil sharpeners, x-rated viewing cameras, jumping beans, figurines of pedro...