The Colors of Timanfaya

SIBYLLOGY: Life inside the Saussurean Bar.

“I want to tell you something which brought me no small comfort; perhaps this same thought can lessen your grief. When I was returning from Asia, sailing from Aegina toward Megara, I began to look at the regions all around me. Behind me was Aegina, in front was Megara, on the right Piraeus, on the left Corinth. These were once flourishing towns, but now they lay lifeless and ruined before my eyes. I began to think to myself: “Ah! Are we little men, whose lives are necessarily too brief, indignant if one of us dies or is killed, when in one place so many corpses of towns lie abandoned? Please pull yourself together, Servius, and remember that you were born a mortal man.” Believe me, I was strengthened considerably by this thought.” Servius Rufus in a letter to Cicero

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January 11, 2014

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2 responses to “The Colors of Timanfaya”

dtiefling

January 17, 2014

That’s so beautiful and makes me want to go hiking there.

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Sib

January 19, 2014

I know, right! Unfortunately, Timanfaya is not open to hiking – too dangerous what with the semi-active volcanic bits and also a too fragile environment. There are bus tours through it, and a guided hiking tour once a week, but most of it is completely off limits.

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