Where can we go from your spirit, full of fear. And where can we flee from your face, o Creator, death? We cannot go up to the heights, We cannot go down to the lowlands, For there is the plague.* And Haile Selassie, not yet emperor, wrote in his autobiography: After this, from the 1stContinue reading “Ethiopia – The Swift Arrival and Departure of the Flu Pandemic – 1918”
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A Letter from Scott Fitzgerald Quarantined in 1920 in the South of France During the Spanish Influenza Outbreak
Dearest Rosemary, It was a limpid, dreary day, hung as in a basket from a single dull star. I thank you for your letter. Ouside I perceive what may be a collection of fallen leaves tussling against a trash can. It rings like jazz to my ears. The streets are that empty. It seems asContinue reading “A Letter from Scott Fitzgerald Quarantined in 1920 in the South of France During the Spanish Influenza Outbreak”
Plague Anthology 