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Pondering a FK story... For what it's worth, I personally feel that while the Lacroix character might indeed claim, aloud, to an audience, to have known all along, really, there's no way that he could know with confidence which fallen individual any of those rough casts represented. With people hiding and running every which way, every kind of person of every class and station of society, the chaos and the scramble, any guess Lacroix would have made about the casts as individual people with names and lives and hopes and fears would have been very nearly as totally ignorant and fanciful as the Victorian archaeologists. And of course he had just recently returned to Pompeii after a long time from having been away in the field. Naturally, he cannot have known every person in Pompeii; indeed, most of the people would have been beneath his notice for vicious reasons of class, misogyny, and enslavement. His assumptions would have led him astray as surely as the early archaeologists, if perhaps in different directions.
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Pondering a FK story... For what it's worth, I personally feel that while the Lacroix character might indeed claim, aloud, to an audience, to have known all along, really, there's no way that he could know with confidence which fallen individual any of those rough casts represented. With people hiding and running every which way, every kind of person of every class and station of society, the chaos and the scramble, any guess Lacroix would have made about the casts as individual people with names and lives and hopes and fears would have been very nearly as totally ignorant and fanciful as the Victorian archaeologists. And of course he had just recently returned to Pompeii after a long time from having been away in the field. Naturally, he cannot have known every person in Pompeii; indeed, most of the people would have been beneath his notice for vicious reasons of class, misogyny, and enslavement. His assumptions would have led him astray as surely as the early archaeologists, if perhaps in different directions.