The explosion wiped out the language. That's how big it was. But we're trying to get these people to speak again, by digging.

All the people, their houses and culture are still encapsulated there as they were in 1815.

It's a remote island with very little access, so it has been little studied over the years.

Events of this type will occur in the future, and we should be aware of what could happen.

What they were trying to do was to invent a new visual language for the 20th century. And what they did was they took the Renaissance window -- one point perspective illusion -- and it's as if they took a piece of glass over this painting and shattered it, creating all these fragments and planes. And then took those planes together and reassembled it.

I'm trying to think about the right way to formulate language, ... I believe that we should not be at this point talking about unilateral going-it-alone approaches while we're asking the U.N. to take strong action.