Slouching towards fiction
Feb 06, 2022
2 minutes
CHARLOTTE GRIMSHAW
hen WB Yeats wrote his famous poem “The Second Coming”, World War I had just ended, the influenza pandemic was killing millions, and more violent upheavals lay ahead. The poem is apt for our times, a baleful vision of the world spinning out of control, of order threatened by pitiless forces: “Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things
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