The Flame Deluge is an allusion to an event in Walter Miller's Cantical for Leibowitz. The book takes place in a post apocalyptic world, where the nuclear war that devasted the earth is referred to as 'The Flame Deluge'
Dresden and Guernica were both sites of heavy aerial bombardment where many civilian lives were taken. Dresden in WWII, Duernica in the Spanish Civil War.
I think that hiding among the smallest things refers to atoms and thus atomic bombs. 'Ferried above' has to do with bombers, as does 'waiting in the winds.'
I'm not sure, however what 'the smallest thread' refers to
The Flame Deluge is an allusion to an event in Walter Miller's Cantical for Leibowitz. The book takes place in a post apocalyptic world, where the nuclear war that devasted the earth is referred to as 'The Flame Deluge'
Dresden and Guernica were both sites of heavy aerial bombardment where many civilian lives were taken. Dresden in WWII, Duernica in the Spanish Civil War.
I think that hiding among the smallest things refers to atoms and thus atomic bombs. 'Ferried above' has to do with bombers, as does 'waiting in the winds.'
I'm not sure, however what 'the smallest thread' refers to