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and all that we share in common with our planetary kin

when the machines are sleeping and they find themselves back again amid that most valuable natural resource - time

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Aurochs and Auks - Essays on Mortality and Extinction Anna Roberts-Gevalt von leichter Verwunderung übermaltAurochs and Auks is a deeply moving and intelligent meditation on the natural processes of death and extinction, renewal and continuity. Prompted by his own near death in a time of pandemic, John Burnside explores the history of the auroch (Bos primigenius), the wild cattle that has become the source of so much sacred and cultural imagery across Europe, from the Minotaur and the Cretan bull dances to Spanish corrida traditions. He then tells the story