Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold

Bring Me My Bow of Burning Gold

Go to Hell

Come fly with me, let's fly, let's fly away.

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Timothy Morton
Apr 09, 2025
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I just found out the title of Martin Luther King’s last sermon. He didn’t deliver it because he was assassinated:

WHY AMERICA MAY GO TO HELL

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Isaac S. Villegas wonders in his essay on it, published last week, what King might have meant by that “Why.” Was it immediate, pressing reasons in the news of the moment? Or was it something of longer duration? Or even something structural?

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