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Plague

The Anthropocene Reviewed

CHAPTER

The Black Death

To read about the black death is to glimpse how it may end, with our species in longing and despair. In ireland, a monk named john clynn described life as waiting amid death for death to come. The most gutting repetition in plague accounts is the abandonment of the ill who were often left to die alone due to fear of contagion. Many centuries later, c s lewis would write after his wife died, nobody ever told me grief felt so like fear.

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