"he has eaten our dogs"

“A Canticle for Leibowitz“ intensifies

@clockworkorangejuice did he illuminate a circuit diagram that he found on the ground?

@clockworkorangejuice Reading that as a young'un was my introduction to the idea that there are ideas and artifacts of my current everyday life that may someday in a distant future be elevated and scrutinized as matters of mystery and reverence after they've been gotten sufficiently abstracted from their context.

Given our current events, the novel's precipitating event of humanity turning its back on literacy and progress and angry mobs destroying our intellectual infrastructure is getting a little too real right now.