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    2. 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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    3. 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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    4. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 20 Mar 2020
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      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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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Mar 2020
      Replying to @evefairbanks @mattyglesias

      Yeah, I think it's a modern thing. Even the literature about AIDS seems smaller than it should be, given the huge impact it had.

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

          Totally true

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        3. Eve Fairbanks‏ @evefairbanks 20 Mar 2020
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          Going back way further than 1918, Thucydides is worth reading now, b/c in a sense the golden age of Pericles had a shadow which set the stage for the ensuing, random plague's special devastation--a hubris. A sense in Athenian society that it had solved or could solve everything.

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

          It's really interesting to think about why this is, actually. You're right about HIV--even in S Africa, where I live & where it has huge impact, it didn't make it into tons of lit. It's easy to say "decline of religion!" but I bet there are deeper answers

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        1. mkazin‏ @mkazin 20 Mar 2020
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          And after about 20 million had died in WW I, the death toll from the flu seemed less shocking (and young soldiers were particularly vulnerable to the disease). Also, industrial deaths were common then (1K in one year in Pittsburgh's county alone). We expect to be safer now.

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        1. Monarda B. Allen‏ @MonardaB 20 Mar 2020
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          Katherine Anne Porter’s short story Pale Horse Pale Rider Done Take My Lover Away. A masterpiece https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.184599/page/n1/mode/2up …

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