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  • Pompeii has nothing to teach us,
    we know crack of volcanic fissure,
    slow flow of terrible lava,
    pressure on heart, lungs, the brain
    about to burst its brittle case
    (what the skull can endure!)

    Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.510, New Directions Publishing