"The Future of Terror" and "Terror of the Future" are abecedarian poems, which is to say that they follow a particular scheme through the alphabet.
But what makes "Modern Life" more than just another neatly accomplished collection from a neatly accomplished poet are two long, strange, nervous sequences: "The Future of Terror" and "Terror of the Future".
We feel our terror of the future – and the tech industry's terror of women – walking neatly hand in hand toward the horizon as the credits roll.
Oswald's terror of the future is finely captured in his lament that he is about to turn into "a grey-haired infant".
They were not responsible for starting the arms race, but the more they speculated on the unknown terrors of the future, the faster the race was run.
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. Herbert 1965: 321.
That is, The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. Herbert 1965: 321.
So the real trick, the only hope, really, is to allow the terror of an unlivable future to be balanced and soothed by the prospect of building something much better than many of us have previously dared hope.
It represents a significant obstacle to intelligence analysts in their attempts to isolate indicators of future terror attacks.
And all because when Americans are faced with even the slightest possibility of future terror, they shit their pants and run to daddy".
