Hiroshima on my mind
I had considered going to Hiroshima during our break last week, but when I looked into ferry departures and estimated some costs earlier in the summer, I decided to stay in-country (as you've seen). I still want to visit the city, so perhaps that will happen in the fall.
In any case, Sunday was the anniversary of the atomic bombing in 1945. While we were in Gangwon-do, I saw a promo for a show about the bombing that was going to air on the Discovery Channel. One of the elderly Enola Gay crewmen ardently asserted that he doesn't think about the people who died, he just thinks about all the (American) people who didn't die because of the actions of his crew and that of Bock's Car.
And I sighed, then said to My Lady Friend, "Keep on rationalising it like that, guy."
The arrival of this anniversary amid the current warfare in Lebanon, Israel and Iraq has stirred up an idea about time-coordinated visualization and meditation that had first come to mind as we prepared to leave Taiwan. More on that later.
And on a somewhat related note, I just found out that Shohei Imamura died. His film "Black Rain" deals directly with the bombing, while "Dr. Akagi" (a curious film that I saw in Santa Fe years ago, and which I've seen for sale at curious places around Seoul) is a character drama that ends with the bombing.
In any case, Sunday was the anniversary of the atomic bombing in 1945. While we were in Gangwon-do, I saw a promo for a show about the bombing that was going to air on the Discovery Channel. One of the elderly Enola Gay crewmen ardently asserted that he doesn't think about the people who died, he just thinks about all the (American) people who didn't die because of the actions of his crew and that of Bock's Car.
And I sighed, then said to My Lady Friend, "Keep on rationalising it like that, guy."
The arrival of this anniversary amid the current warfare in Lebanon, Israel and Iraq has stirred up an idea about time-coordinated visualization and meditation that had first come to mind as we prepared to leave Taiwan. More on that later.
And on a somewhat related note, I just found out that Shohei Imamura died. His film "Black Rain" deals directly with the bombing, while "Dr. Akagi" (a curious film that I saw in Santa Fe years ago, and which I've seen for sale at curious places around Seoul) is a character drama that ends with the bombing.
Hiroshima on my mind
mr damon, 11:11
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Thinking of the Enola Gay's pilot, there's almost nothing that a willful ignorance won't cure.
when in japan many years ago i had the opportunity to go to the hiroshima museum. i didn't think i could handle it so passed. wondering what the anniversary is speaking to today's warlords as. maybe, 'see, you too can be in the history books forever'?
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