When you finish this story, you will feel fully culpable for the extinction of the great auk, even at the remove of 180 years, and not only because it is written in the fourth person. Weep, for the human condition – the violent, gnawing appetite for possession and consumption, and the mental maths of self-justification.
“Here is the truth: we blamed the birds for what we did to them.”
Collected in An Account of the Decline of the Great Auk, According to One Who Saw It, JM Originals, 2015
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