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The carrion-eaters - by Sam Kriss - Numb at the Lodge

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What we did to Jason Arday

It’ll probably never happen to you. Maybe I should pretend it will: try to grab you by the self-interest and say, look, consider that this weapon you’re playing around with might one day be pointed at you—but it won’t. You will never be Ardayed. You will never have to sit helplessly while your entire life is systematically disassembled in front of you. You will never be on the front page of every newspaper in the country. There will never be huge crowds delightedly rummaging around in your entrails, the chirp and titter of a million sparrows pecking at the flesh of a dead elephant: you’re…

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