Short-a-Day: Owen Marshall's "The Frozen Continents"
Originally published in A Public Space, No. 4, 2007. Personal enjoyment rating (out of 100): 1.[Part of the FOCUS: Antarctica series.] I found it an odd sensation at first; standing waist deep in Antarctica as we dismantled it. I pointed out to Beavis the clear symbolism relating to man's despoilation of the last natural continent and so on. Beavis in reply told me that fourteen people were killed in a stampede when …