Elizabeth Sandifer and Penn Highlight

he piece gets down to its true intentions: an account of the God of Television. Perhaps unsurprisingly, it is a mad, capricious thing. It boasts of how it “shrank the mountains and the jungles; shrank whole wars and brought them unto you in bottles” and how “on my altars human time is gladly sacrificed, whole lives evaporated in my pure and glimmering heat,” luxuriating in the pleasures of apocalypse, which is to gods “our noblest sport. It is our right.”