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+## 2026-05-04
+
+My key task for today is to collect a list of 'core apocalyptic forms'. What are
+these, what are they for? I intend to argue that there are better and worse ways
+of using apocalyptic forms in green rhetoric. It follows that I need to identify
+apocalyptic forms, I need to persuade my reader that HERE is an example of an
+apocalyptic form. I may also want to talk about the rhetoric of John of Patmos
+or other ancient apocalyptic authors, so my 'core apocalyptic forms' should
+ideally cover ancient apocalypses as well as modern ones.
+
+In short, my 'core apocalyptic forms' should:
+
+- Identify literary features of good green rhetoric
+- Identify literary features of bad green rhetoric
+- Identify literary features of ancient apocalypse
+- Identify literary features of modern apocalypse
+
+### Ideas from my reading so far
+
+- TEOTWAWKI, or the end of 'a' world [@american-apocalyptic; @flannery-2024]
+- The end times [@thompson-revelation; @flannery-2024; @vielhauer-apocalypses;
+  @revelation-vision-of-a-just-world]
+- Catastrophe / doomsday [@revealed-wisdom, @oxford-handbook-apocalyptic,
+  @thompson-revelation]
+- Mythological symbolism [@revelation-vision-of-a-just-world; @ultimate-things]
+- Fatalism [@revealed-wisdom; @flannery-2024; @ultimate-things;
+  @vielhauer-apocalypses]
+- Judgement [@flannery-2024; @ultimate-things]
+- Miraculous ultimate deliverance [@revealed-wisdom; @flannery-2024;
+  @ultimate-things]
+- Decline or end of civilization [@oxford-handbook-apocalyptic]
+- Rapture [@oxford-handbook-apocalyptic]
+- Decoding world events [@oxford-handbook-apocalyptic]
+- End of the future [@kowalewski-environmental-apocalypse]
+- Millenium [@oxford-handbook-apocalyptic; @apocalyptic-patterns]
+- Nesting contexts [@thompson-revelation]
+- Exhortations to remain faithful [@thompson-revelation]
+- Minority/revealed knowledge [@thompson-revelation; @open-heaven;
+  @revelation-vision-of-a-just-world]
+- Alternative worlds, cosmic speculation [@ultimate-things;
+  @revelation-vision-of-a-just-world; @ratlos;
+  @revelation-vision-of-a-just-world]
+- Theodicy [@revelation-vision-of-a-just-world]
+- Visions/dreams [@ultimate-things; @revelation-vision-of-a-just-world;
+  @vielhauer-apocalypses]
+- Angelic intermediary [@ultimate-things; @revelation-vision-of-a-just-world;
+  @ratlos]
+- Pseudonymity [@revelation-vision-of-a-just-world, @ultimate-things;
+  @vielhauer-apocalypses]
+- Moral dualism [@ultimate-things]
+- Eschatological dualism [@vielhauer-apocalypses]
+- Ex eventu prophecy [@ultimate-things; @vielhauer-apocalypses]
+
 ## 2026-05-01
 
 I had a long think about the argument I want to make in my dissertation. I came