#im hoping to do my major essay for this one english unit on the trope of the becoming-"savage: of the coloniser in british imperial fiction

[alexanderpearce]

„we were meant to meet / your exile is reached / you’re home“ okay well the executed and the executioner as a fated pair. you were exiled to a foreign land and you committed horrific bloody acts that you might never have done back where you came from and you are to be executed for them and now your exile is reached. you are leaving this foreign land. you're home. you're home.

#im hoping to do my major essay for this one english unit on the trope of the becoming-"savage: of the coloniser in british imperial fiction #because in that one fictional retelling of alexander pearce the author does this seemingly completely uncritically and ever since it has re #really interested me. this isnt what this post is quite about but ive just been thinking about it as an idea i think its a fascinating #colonialist narrative. like get real #this post is about the executioner and the executed as a fated pair and about committing cannibal acts and then your only home is dying. #shut up ulrike #alexander pearce #words from the executioner to alexander pearce #the drones