Laura Spinney, British science journalist and author of Pale Rider: The Spanish Flu of 1918 and How It Changed the World observes that, “The Spanish Flu is remembered personally, not collectively Not as a historical disaster, but as millions of discreet, private tragedies ” The pandemic of 1918 was not memorialized like World War I which supervened at the same time as the Spanish Flu It was soon relegated in public memory as the world emerged from the throes of the nightmarish war Almost a century later, the world finds itself in the grip of yet another pandemic, the COVID-19 Similar situations of patients with multiple complex symptoms, heaving hospitals, shortage of doctors and nurses, scenes of patients left unattended, dealing with the guilt of infecting their family and friends and struggling to survive paints an apocalyptic scenario This paper tries to explore a parallel among the two pandemics as it witnesses the tragic tale of a survivor of the Spanish Influenza in Katherine Anne Porter’s autobiographical short novel “Pale Horse, Pale Rider ” The private tragedies of physical deterioration, psychological delusions and social stigmatization also suffered by the COVID-19 survivors have been documented and blazoned all over news and social media The design behind broadcasting these factual accounts are recognition of the reality of the virus (suspected and labelled fake on many occasions), awareness of the symptoms and understanding of the disease These hopeful and optimistic narratives of the COVID survivors are a faint ray of hope in these bleak times © AesthetixMS 2020

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与大流行病幸存者会合：凯瑟琳·安妮·波特 (Katherine Anne Porter) 的“苍白的马，苍白的骑士”和 COVID-19 中的西班牙流感分析

英国科学记者、《苍白骑士：1918 年西班牙流感及其如何改变世界》一书的作者劳拉·斯宾尼 (Laura Spinney) 观察到，“西班牙流感是个人记忆，而不是集体记忆，不是历史灾难，而是数百万个谨慎的私人悲剧” 1918 年的大流行并没有像第一次世界大战那样与西班牙流感同时发生，随着世界从噩梦般的战争阵痛中走出来，很快就在公众记忆中消失了将近一个世纪后，世界发现自己处于另一种流行病的控制，COVID-19 具有多种复杂症状的患者的类似情况，医院繁忙，医生和护士短缺，患者无人看管的场景，处理感染家人和朋友以及挣扎求生的罪恶感描绘了一个世界末日的场景本文试图探索两种流行病之间的相似之处，因为它见证了凯瑟琳·安妮·波特的自传体短篇小说中西班牙流感幸存者的悲惨故事“苍白的马，苍白的骑士 ” COVID-19 幸存者也遭受的身体恶化、心理错觉和社会污名化的私人悲剧已被记录并在新闻和社交媒体上大肆宣传 广播这些事实叙述背后的设计是对现实的承认病毒（怀疑并多次标记为假冒），对疾病症状的认识和对疾病的理解这些对 COVID 幸存者充满希望和乐观的叙述是这些黯淡时代的一线希望 © AesthetixMS 2020