Lectio #85
Chicago, Illinois
2024
It’s been a while since I’ve added to this series on reading. What’s a young woman reading early on a Sunday morning? It wasn’t anything I’d have guess: the novel Blösch by the Swedish author Beat Sterchi who writes in standard German and also the Bernese dialect. The title translates into English as Cow and is about the psychological impact of working in a slaughterhouse. Pretty heavy reading for any day of the week I imagine.
I guess you could run down our old friend Stuart. Raised in a Swedish community and worked in a slaughterhouse, he may have insights walking those dark corridors…
I think it would be fun to reconnect with Stuart after all these years. I probably wouldn’t talk with him much about his slaughterhouse years.