The Wretched Earth
Ros Gray,Shela Sheikh +1 more
TL;DR: The Earth is wretched because of its soil, that thin layer of earth at the surface of the Earth as discussed by the authors, and it is literally our ground, not metaphorically metaphorically our ground.
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Abstract: We begin with the recognition that the Earth is wretched. This is not a metaphor. It is literally our ground. The Earth is wretched because its soil – that thin layer of earth at the surface of the...
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