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This is the WORST.</a></h2> <div class="entry-meta"> <span class="onDate date"> <i class="icon-time icon-metas" title="Date"></i> <time class="published" datetime="2021-03-24T11:00:22+00:00" itemprop="datePublished">24th March 2021</time> <time class="updated" datetime="2021-03-23T19:45:03+00:00" itemprop="dateModified">23rd March 2021</time> </span> </div> </header> <div class="entry-summary" itemprop="description"> <p>Destruction cannot be heard because rushing blood drowns out words. Destruction cannot be spoken because a mouth crowded with gasps smothers thoughts. That is why devastation leaves one at a loss for words. Becoming speechless ends the protective spell that “the worst is not so long as we can say, …</p> </div> <footer class="post-continue-container"> <a class="continue-reading-link" href="https://blogs.ed.ac.uk/research-bow/a-pandemic-phd-this-is-the-worst/"><span>Continue reading</span><em class="screen-reader-text">"A pandemic PhD? 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