Greetings from Duluth: Essays on Destruction by B.J. Hollars

Author:B.J. Hollars
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Greetings from Duluth: Essays on Destruction
ISBN: 9781941531372
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 2014-12-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Tornadoes, once, were a mystery. As a result of the devastation wrought by the East Baltic tornado of June 22, 1795, Johann Christoph Brotze—a teacher and historian from present day Latvia—created a sketch of a sketch of a tornado. He had not witnessed it himself, though he based his work from a curious drawing he’d seen. Brotze’s sketch, believed to be one of our earliest depictions of a tornado, revealed mostly what was expected—a cone-shaped cloud narrowing to a tail just beneath a blanket of darkness. Brotze’s tornado showed no swirling motion, but instead, appeared to be holding firm, a god’s muscled torso surrounded by lightning bolts, his head hidden just out of frame.

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