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float: none;">from this book review: <a
href="https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/searching-for-prophecy-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic-24017">
https://www.bookforum.com/print/2702/searching-for-prophecy-in-the-midst-of-a-pandemic-24017</a></span></p>
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<p><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Sabon
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an incurable disease mounts a body count, there’s a
corresponding linguistic crisis that can be expressed in
these Burroughsian vs. Sontagian terms: Is language a
metaphoric virus or a metaphoric antibody? Is language the
proliferation of falsity or the protection against it, or
can it be both, and what of its function is conscious? <br>
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display: inline !important; float: none;">and for those who
aren't hooked by the linguistic aspects of it, there is a tidbit
in here to feed those more hooked by morbid fascination:</span><span
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<p><i><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: "Sabon
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!important; float: none;">this was a thing that still
happened, a hazing that was also an homage: You scooped
the bit of Einstein’s brain out of the jar and shook off
the excess formaldehyde; then, you put some salt in the
crook of your thumb and licked it, after which you took
down a shot of cheap room-temperature tequila and sucked
on the brain-bit until your mouth went numb—until the
formaldehyde paralyzed your lips and tongue and you
couldn’t be understood, you couldn’t even feel yourself
trying to make language.</span></span></i></p>
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