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Immortality
Andrei Platonov
After midnight, on the approach to Red Peregon station, the FD locomotive began to shout and weep. 1 It sang in the winter darkness with the deep strength of its hot belly and then began to change to a gentle, weeping human breathing, addressing someone who was not replying. After falling briefly silent, the FD again complained into the air: human words could already be discerned in this signal, and whoever now heard them must have felt pressure on his own conscience because of the engine’s…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 9, 2018
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Literature
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Fiction