Entry 54 · Book chapter 55
March 22 1944
Lewis travels through falling ash and volcanic debris to report on the threatened town of San Sebastiano as lava approaches.
Themes
Reflections
Faith in permanence against Vesuvius's certainty
Visiting San Sebastiano as lava approaches, Lewis marvels that its people build to last centuries and refuse to admit the town's eventual destruction is a mathematical certainty — civic permanency treated as an article of religious faith.
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