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Purge and Plunge: A response to Marion May Campbell’s konkretion

Erin Ritchie
Abstract

It’s a wintery tempest out there, beyond the glass cage of the Sea Baths. In
the small hot-box-of-a-bath swarming with bodies slowed down and expressionless, we are all addict and geriatric. We are cradled, buoyant babies, delighting quietly before the bubble jets, looking out past the drums of chemicals that line up the perimeter of this “therapeutic” experience—to the blustering, out of place, rogue day of Spring. Palm trees flex and bend and waves crash in from somewhere.

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