Covid-19 Chronicles

Join us in capturing a literary time capsule. What a time in history this is, mired in grief and fear is the knowledge that mankind is truly good and resourceful. That we do endure and born out of the ashes of what was known brims with life a new Era garnered of it's bones. Share with us your stories, your fears and your moments of unexpected joy.
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Literature Recalls the Pandemic:

"Consider how common illness is, how tremendous the spiritual change that it brings, how astonishing… , when we think of this, as we are so frequently forced to think of it, it becomes strange indeed that illness has not taken its place with love and battle and jealousy among the
prime themes of literature.”

-Virginia Wolf

"In early 1919... The Spanish Influenza
pandemic had struck Harpurhey. There was no doubt of the existence of a God: only the
supreme being could contrive so brilliant an afterpiece to four years of unprecedented suffering
and devastation."

-Anthony Burgess

"What's true of all the evils in the world is true of the plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves. All the same, when you see the misery it brings, you'd need to be a madman, or a coward, or stone blind, to give in tamely to the plague... What we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to
despise."

-Albert Camus

Self-portrait with the Spanish flu by Edvard Munch