From the day
Perspective: The Future Historian · Sight
I lean against the flickering neon of the cinema, watching the silhouettes of men in stiff wool overcoats pause before the newsstand. The ink is still wet on the grim report that Russians seize port of Rizeh; Turkey's Black Sea coast defenses crumbling under fire of fleet. Trebizond being shelled occupation of Sehna, in Persia, by Grand Duke's forces confirmed. Great massacre by Kurds 40,000 Armenians driven from Erzerum and killed, according to Petrograd. It is a "lousy" bit of business for the century, a brutal precursor to the geopolitical fractures I’ve spent my life mapping. Watching the crowd, I realize they don’t yet see how "over the top" this violence will eventually go, forever altering the silhouette of the modern world.