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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Mar 2020
      Replying to @mattyglesias

      The literary critic Paul Fussell wrote about this in The Great War and Modern Memory and elsewhere. TL;dr: a virus, being non-human and not even a visible part of nature, is hard to narrate or personify, so difficult to tell stories about.

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      • Scott Bennett luft_mensch ed shewalk3d 🏳️‍🌈 Zach Magnuson Jemmy Ducks Nilou Sarvian Jake Atkinson Ailín Mac Ailbhe 與大家見證時代革命 祈求民主與自由萬世都不朽 Walter T. Fego
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        1. Donnie 'Captain O'Denkirk' Calabrese‏ @DonnieCalabrese 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          Illness, virus and foreignness. AIDS and Its Metaphors and all that.

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        1. Dierk Groeneman‏ @amish_hooligan 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          similarly the germs Europe brought to America don't seem to figure as prominently as the guns and the steel

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        2. Colleen Coover‏ @ColleenCoover 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          Maybe shame is a factor? My mom (78yo~her mom was 2yo in 18) told me family lore of whole families starving to death bc no one would come near quarantined homes.

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        3. Jesse Harrison‏ @red8jwoe 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @ColleenCoover @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          my grandfather was orphaned by it and my family talked about it, and I feel like I'm from another planet with the way I've been aware of how bad this can be

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        2. Graham Clark‏ @grahamcclark1 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          You're both wrong (surprise!), for example the Spanish flu is obviously all over "The Waste Land," it's just that you didn't notice

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        3. Alyson Metzger‏ @AlysonMetzger 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @grahamcclark1 @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          Thank you, Graham.

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        2. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          With respect I don't think this is true at all outside the 1918 flu, which may be an exception. Plague was a huge theme in classical Greek & Latin literature, in the Decameron, in early Italian novels. In Thucydides, plague is what reveals the weakness of Athenian individualism

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        3. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @evefairbanks @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          Possibly plague is harder to talk about when we are a) less reliant on religion to give it meaning and b) obsessed w/ the idea you can live any life you want w/ the right plan. Plague acts as Fate in ancient lit. We don't believe in Fate, nor its insurmountable unpredictability.

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        1. Elizabeth Joh‏ @elizabeth_joh 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          A wonderful book.

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        2. Protik Islam-Jakobsson‏ @ikitorp 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          Is there any literature on the political and social consequences of losing a very large proportion of a society's elderly so rapidly? Feel like there must be some consequences to losing so many of the only people who have living memories of the world's greatest mistakes.

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        3. wombot 👀‏ @colourmeamused_ 20 Mar 2020
          Replying to @ikitorp @HeerJeet @mattyglesias

          Spanish flu also killed a lot of young though!

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