Posted on 07/18/2020 5:16:52 PM PDT by CheshireTheCat
Men and women wearing masks shuffle wearily through the desolate ruins of a failed country. It’s not healthy or safe to be out, and public places are barren. Storefronts are boarded up. Encounters of any length with other human beings are few and far between, and often revolve around the transactional or coerced provision of food or sex....The government, or what’s left of it, is an aloof, hostile presence. Citizens have been conditioned to hate their heritage and culture, or what little remains; they’ve come to hate themselves. Believing in the value of what past generations have done, built, and achieved, and in the right of people to live as they have for generations, is not just out of fashion; it’s illegal.
The country has decided, in essence, that it simply doesn’t deserve to go on, that there’s nothing at all worth upholding and preserving, that it would be better if people killed one another off or died of disease, hunger, or despair.....The Bridge is the story of Dominick Priest, a denizen of the decaying East Coast of the United States who makes his way out of Manhattan and through parts of the tri-state area in the hope of meeting up with his pregnant wife.
He’ll need luck. A mysterious official body known as the Council has decided to end life as we know it. The country is in ruins following an official decree of the Council’s Emergency Committee on Respiration, passed on July 7, 2035, that people are too destructive of the natural and microbial environment to have any right to go on with their careers, relationships, and lives...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
“Here it is to read online.”
Thank you!
I think Matt Bracken and Kurt Schlichter were quite prescient as well.
Ping
Your’re lucky to have libraries open. Not much chance they’ll reopen here for a year at least. Unless “positives” suddenly nosedive. It’s happened before.
“I’ve looked everywhere to find a copy but no such luck...anyone have ideas?”
very difficult to find it ... my local library belongs to an alliance of libraries in several states and i managed to reserve it that way ... but that part of the library exchange is currently suspended until “after covid” ...
Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman--a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting. What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not a goal. --Friedrich Nietzsche
Very expensive. I checked Abe Books and the prices were in the $115-$130 range.
Thank you.
The Bridge and Blakely’s Ark were referenced in the article.
Paperback a little over $800 and a hardcover for less than $200.
Think they’ll take a bad check?? LOL
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