Scything
- Indbinding:
- Paperback
- Sideantal:
- 32
- Udgivet:
- 18. oktober 2010
- Størrelse:
- 152x229x2 mm.
- Vægt:
- 59 g.
- 2-3 uger.
- 13. december 2024
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- Adgang til 70.000+ titler
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Beskrivelse af Scything
As the only species aware of its mortality, people have always had a morbid preoccupation with death. Our agrarian forefathers anthropomorphized their fear into the Grim Reaper, whose swipe symbolized the unexpected moment of life's end. Few of us own a scythe or know how to use one, but that swish still represents the surprise of hearing about someone's death and makes us tremble at the thought of how quickly we will pass into nonexistence. The now familiar Grim Reaper figure has outlasted four or five centuries, making appearances at costume balls and in New Yorker cartoons. He's forever here among us, maybe even sorting his socks, while providing fodder for black humor and verse. Both playful and somber, these poems improvise a traditional symbol, mocking the Reaper's mocking of our mortality.
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