# Numb at the Lodge

These heavy sands are language tide and wind have silted here

By Sam Kriss

# [Numb at the Lodge](https://samkriss.substack.com/)

[How to read Numb at the Lodge](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/how-to-read-numb-at-the-lodge)

[A guide](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/how-to-read-numb-at-the-lodge)

Feb 18•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[A fire was in my head](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/a-fire-was-in-my-head)

[Numb in Northern Ireland](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/a-fire-was-in-my-head)

Jun 7•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will)

[Did you think I wouldn’t be able to tell? I can tell.](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will)

May 25•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[If you let AI do your writing, I will come to your house and kill you](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/if-you-let-ai-do-your-writing-i-will)

May 25•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Numb at Burning Man](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/numb-at-burning-man)

Nov 2, 2025

[The internet is already over](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-internet-is-already-over)

Sep 18, 2022•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Born in the wrong generation](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/born-in-the-wrong-generation)

Apr 6, 2025•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Reading is magic](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic)

Apr 12•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

LatestTop

[Reading is magic](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic)

[What will happen in our second peasanthood](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic)

Apr 12•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Is my writing too wet?](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/is-my-writing-too-wet)

[In defence of gloop](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/is-my-writing-too-wet)

Apr 5•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Who wants to save the UK?](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/who-wants-to-save-the-uk)

[Four sensible suggestions](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/who-wants-to-save-the-uk)

Mar 15•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[You'll regret it](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/youll-regret-it)

[About nothing it is hardly worth while to waste a word](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/youll-regret-it)

Mar 7•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Child’s Play](https://harpersmagazine.substack.com/cp/189381253)

[“The future will belong to people with a very specific combination of personality traits and psychosexual neuroses,” writes Sam Kriss.](https://harpersmagazine.substack.com/cp/189381253)

Published on Harper’s Magazine•Feb 27

[The century of the maxxer](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-century-of-the-maxxer)

[Incredible things are happening in America](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/the-century-of-the-maxxer)

Feb 9

[Good and evil in Iran](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/good-and-evil-in-iran)

[I forgot I was a king’s son, and became a slave to their king](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/good-and-evil-in-iran)

Jan 18•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Prophecies for 2026](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/prophecies-for-2026)

[Isn't there something deeply extravagant about stupidity?](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/prophecies-for-2026)

Jan 6•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)

[Do you believe in society’s lies?](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/do-you-believe-in-societys-lies)

[Santa Claus, Jeffrey Epstein, witch doctors, and the propaganda model of the world](https://samkriss.substack.com/p/do-you-believe-in-societys-lies)

Dec 24, 2025•[Sam Kriss](https://substack.com/@samkriss)