SPQR Blues Chapter 4 part XXVIII, row 5

[spqrblues]

This is the last of the set of drawings pencilled while I was under attack by a crazed mob of pollen! Or something. In any case, I expect further attacks as the spring progresses.





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Comments

[ndgmtlcd.livejournal.com]

Very nice pitcher. Why do I always dream of borrowing a time machine and looting "pristine" Roman cities when I read your comic?

[meritahut.livejournal.com]

I have this fantasy of time-travelling, hiring a native guide, and going down to the marketplace to buy sacks of trinkets and household furnishings. A few nice things, too.

Well, there's half a sort-of-pristine Roman city just waiting for us to loot under people's homes in modern Herculaneum. I hear that parts of the old city on top of the old old city are becoming unstable, which is sad news for the inhabitants, but good news for pillagers.

Uh oh, now I've made myself maudlin and wishing I could drop everything and join that conservation project in Herculaneum ::sniffle:: Every now and then I think, why not just live off my savings in Herculaneum for a couple of months and visit every nook and cranny? Then I remember that I'd lose my job if I did that. If only I had a time machine... or maybe a teleporter...