The Human Slaughter-House
21st April 2015
‘We’re only charging machines. And the machine triumphs into our flesh. And the machine drinks the blood from our veins, guzzling it by the bucketload.’ These lines come from the extraordinary novella Das Menschenschlachthaus by Wilhelm Lamszus (1881–1965), which I read recently. I’ll admit I’d never heard of it until I saw it among the items […]
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