I guess the implications of the ex-
tinction now being foretold are that
when our mesquite smokers and grills
are discovered, centuries after this
next Pompeii, they'll be exhumed by
some unprecedented species, at best,
and not just by some unforetold it-
eration of our own. This is almost
too troubling to contemplate, for
fear that our cauldrons and metals
and igneous kettles may, unlike the
classical crockery entombed by Vesu-
vius, in all their decorative narra-
tive, be doomed to inscrutability,
a testament of Usage, untranslated.
Maynard Dixon
No Place to Go
1935
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