Month: April 2020

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Death Life

Lessons of a pandemic

Blood for the money god.
Image taken from page 111 of The World's Desire, 1894. Source: Flickr.com, the British Library collection. No copyright restrictions.

In early January the bells started ringing, “Alarum, alarum.” By the 3rd of January China formally notified the USA of the outbreak. On the same day, South Korea announced enhanced quarantine and screening measures for individuals entering from Wuhan. Over the next grueling 3 months tens of thousands were infected and thousands died in China, […]

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Life

Respect, basically.

Trilithonic title page
Photo by Hisham Zayadnh on Unsplash

Many years ago, long before I met my wife, not long before my grandmother died, she asked me, “Luka, just tell me this, do you and your girlfriend respect each other?” I bent the truth and replied, “Yes, of course we do.” My grandmother nodded, “Good. Good. So long as there’s respect, everything turns out […]