Reindeer at the End of the World – Bathsheba Demuth
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Apocalypse and the Reindeer
Carl left a four-year term in Oriel's central penitentiary with tuberculosis. In another prison, a guard bound him until the ropes ate into my body to the bones at hands and feet which were swollen and blackened so it was impossible to control them. When Carl wrote, To fix this destruction is our task, what he meant was, We shall end the unjust world and beyond it is a life without want. Such a pure vision. One appeal of the apocalypse is that it can make those on its threshold feel world historically important.
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