Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons7/2/2023 Until he rises to meet his fate and finds himself face to face with an evil far older, and far greater, than the Nazi’s themselves… THE PAST… Caught behind the lines of Hitler’s Final Solution, Saul Laski is one of the multitudes destined to die in the notorious Chelmno extermination camp. The publisher’s book description sums it up this way :: Yes, the book is long, clocking in at nearly 650 pages in my version (with some printings topping 800 pages), but it is the concepts behind the book and reach of the story that truly makes it epic. This definitive call of hope and perseverance forms the basis for Dan Simmons’ epic horror saga of the same name. Not untwist-slack they may be-these last strands of man Not, I’ll not, carrion comfort, Despair, not feast on thee Gerald Manley Hopkins late 1880’s poem, “Carrion Comfort,” begins this way ::
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