Worth Reading

"Rome looks familiar to us from this great distance; I wonder if Los Angeles of the 50s would have made sense to them. To the smart ones, no doubt. All the churches might surprise them. That guy? Seriously, that guy? But they’d recognize the architecture. You could take a Roman to an old movie and point out the numerals - we kept those around because they class things up. The politics they would surely understand. You could explain it all over a sandwich made with Roman Meal bread. He’d like that. Show him some pictures of Caesar’s Palace in Vegas. I suppose it would be like waking up in 2000 years and finding a vast gambling joint based on the 1939 World’s Fair. On the moon."

As always.