is there a hand to take hold of this scene?
William Boyd coined the term zemblanity to mean somewhat the opposite of serendipity: "making unhappy, unlucky and expected discoveries."
Writers from Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope to Jules Verne and Salman Rushdie have used Zembla's wastes north of Siberia as symbolic of what Charlotte Bronte called "forlorn regions of dreary space." Now this site of testing of non-nuclear explosives at a nuclear facility has given birth to zemblanity, the inexorable discovery of what we don't want to know.
Writers from Jonathan Swift and Alexander Pope to Jules Verne and Salman Rushdie have used Zembla's wastes north of Siberia as symbolic of what Charlotte Bronte called "forlorn regions of dreary space." Now this site of testing of non-nuclear explosives at a nuclear facility has given birth to zemblanity, the inexorable discovery of what we don't want to know.