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| Dr Brumby (2007) wrote, “on August 24, A.D. 79, the Roman city of Pompeii was buried by the catastrophic eruption of Mount Vesuvius. The pumice and thick volcanic ash that ended the lives of so many also encased the city in a virtual time capsule for the next 17 centuries. The city remained largely lost and forgotten until rediscovered by archaeologists in the early 1700s, resulting in Pompeii today being one of the most complete and intact archaeological sites in the world”. |
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| The destruction by fire and ash of the people of Pompeii is alluded to in this work. The whiteness of the fired book is reminiscent of the plaster casts one can see at Pompeii which were made of the depressions left by the evaporated people. |
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