EN107 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Tilth, Temporalities, Mutual Assured Destruction
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Fire and ice: environmental catastrophe at the world"s end. Or, do they result in a second state of nature that looks somewhat diferent. I had a dream, which was not all a dream, / the bright sun was exinguish"d, and the stars / did wander darkling in the eternal space, / Lines 19-21: forests were set on ire but hour by hour. They fell and faded and the crackling trunks. Exinguish"d with a crash and all was black. War = personiied by a devouring creature. Where had been heap"d a mass of holy things for an unholy usage; they rak"d up. And shivering scrap"d with their cold skeleton hands. Blew for a litle life, and made a lame. Images of uncreaion: lines 32f, the wild birds skriek"d. And lap their useless wings; the wildest brutes. Hissing, but singless they were slain for food.
