Comments on The Cinema of Isolation

Or The Saga of Anatahan.

Wow, Waldo's really changed his style, hasn't he?

'course he now also sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb, but given his situation, I'm guessing he could care less.

I will take the former kind of isolation, thank you.

But Charles, on an unrelated note, I think you should read the book Ghosts of Vesuvius. Here is a quote:

In Pompeii's sister city, Herculaneum, I have seen carbonized scrolls recovered form the Villa of the Papyri - a whole library of scrolls. At first sight, they are blacker than sackcloth and their words are lost to the ages; but under polarized light, and with a little enhancement from an ordinary photoshop program, computer imaging can separate burned black ink from burned black paper and, for the first time in nearly two thousand years, Epicurus and his students can speak to us clearly, in their own words.
(Then listen, Democritus... Death, therefore, the most awful of evils, is nothing to us, seeing that when we are, death is not come, and when death is come, we are not.)
A whole library, coming only now into view - its books, its frescoes, its sculptures becoming open windows on beliefs about life and suffering, about love and death among humans and their imagined overlords...