Photo: Linh Dinh
STILL ALIVE: Walking the streets of Busan, the only fear on his mind is of a wayward virus.
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Zombieology It should be stressed that the coronavirus is not the ultimate cause of our economic, political and societal unravelling, for we’ve been a dead man walking for a while
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s a chicken chomping, coke snorting species, we have three main foes: 1. Beasts more ferocious than us, such as tigers, lions and, well, just about all other animals, since we’re such wimps; 2. Living organisms we can’t even see, such as viruses; 3. Other men, of course, since man is clearly man’s most lethal and sadistic enemy.
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The first category is nearly extinct, with even the most frightful animals turned into lovable cartoons, for our kids’ amusement. In the zombie, however, all three threats are combined, since he’s a man, sort of, that acts like a fierce, bonkers beast, and if he bites you, then you’re a gonner, for sure, thanks to his virus laden spit. Zombies also resonate because they’re contemporary and urbane
cannibals. In torn jeans, hoodies or suits, they’ll eat your flabby ass. Though literal man eaters have become extremely rare, we know in our bones their taste and tactics have merely been transferred into more elegant and expensive looking gentlemen. Most of us also know we’re being devoured, chunk by gristly chunk, daily. These cheerful thoughts occur to me because last week, I took a
