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Katherine Rundell · Consider the Greenland Shark

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I am glad not to be a Greenland shark; I don’t have enough thoughts to fill five hundred years. But I find the very...

Vol. 42 No. 9 · 7 May 2020 Consider the Greenland Shark Katherine Rundell Share on Bluesky Share on Facebook Share Email Print 1139 words Your browser does not support the audio element. I n ​ 1606 a devastating pestilence swept through London; the dying were boarded up in their homes with their families, and a decree went out that the theatres, the bear-baiting yards and the brothels be closed. It was then that Shakespeare wrote one of his very few references to the plague, catching at our precarity: 'The dead man's knell/Is there scarce asked for who, and good men's lives/Expire before

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