AUSSIEMANDIUS - "WHEN ROME WAS THE LIGHT..."
WHEN ROME WAS THE LIGHT DID THEY PONDER THE FALL?
DID THEY TOO LOOK TO BROKEN WALLS AND CITIES GONE TO DUST
AND WONDER ?
"AYE, AS IT WAS THEN, SO MIGHT IT BE AGAIN?"
"celsae graviore casu decidunt turres"
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The answer to that is "Yes", Classical Romans were quite aware of the transitory nature of things, having far too many painfully spectacular events in their own history to
draw conclusions from.
As Horace neatly summed up, "The bigger they come, the harder they fall."
This beaut wall plaque and chandelier combination can be found in the stairwell of Club Abruzzo in Lygon Street, East Brunswick, near the corner of Blythe Street. Founded in 1967 by nostalgic immigrants from the Abruzzo region of Italy, the club has a very snug upstairs ballroom where well catered functions are held. In this case, I was there for the 2008 Belly Dance Kismet End-Of-Year Christmas Party.
In spite of the generally apocalyptic trend of my Aussiemandius Photoset I do sometimes include still powered lights, as I have a working theory that electricity after the notional "Fall" might still be available for a time due to emergency generators or solar, wind or hydro sources.
The bulk of the grid would go down, of course, since in Victoria we get a substantial proportion of our power from coal fired stations, which would stop as soon as the fuel ran out. In fact, the widespread outages might take the hydro out of the loop as well.
On the other hand, if "The Fall" happened, perhaps, in the middle of the night, when not much power was being tapped generally, who can say?
Some of this gloomy speculation, incidentally, is very well explored in Alan Weisman's splendidly matter-of-fact book "The World After Us."
AUSSIEMANDIUS - "WHEN ROME WAS THE LIGHT..."
WHEN ROME WAS THE LIGHT DID THEY PONDER THE FALL?
DID THEY TOO LOOK TO BROKEN WALLS AND CITIES GONE TO DUST
AND WONDER ?
"AYE, AS IT WAS THEN, SO MIGHT IT BE AGAIN?"
"celsae graviore casu decidunt turres"
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The answer to that is "Yes", Classical Romans were quite aware of the transitory nature of things, having far too many painfully spectacular events in their own history to
draw conclusions from.
As Horace neatly summed up, "The bigger they come, the harder they fall."
This beaut wall plaque and chandelier combination can be found in the stairwell of Club Abruzzo in Lygon Street, East Brunswick, near the corner of Blythe Street. Founded in 1967 by nostalgic immigrants from the Abruzzo region of Italy, the club has a very snug upstairs ballroom where well catered functions are held. In this case, I was there for the 2008 Belly Dance Kismet End-Of-Year Christmas Party.
In spite of the generally apocalyptic trend of my Aussiemandius Photoset I do sometimes include still powered lights, as I have a working theory that electricity after the notional "Fall" might still be available for a time due to emergency generators or solar, wind or hydro sources.
The bulk of the grid would go down, of course, since in Victoria we get a substantial proportion of our power from coal fired stations, which would stop as soon as the fuel ran out. In fact, the widespread outages might take the hydro out of the loop as well.
On the other hand, if "The Fall" happened, perhaps, in the middle of the night, when not much power was being tapped generally, who can say?
Some of this gloomy speculation, incidentally, is very well explored in Alan Weisman's splendidly matter-of-fact book "The World After Us."