As if backed by silenceThey grow toward new meanings
The gravity of how few words may create such an impact.
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- Feb 2023
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With accents like old timesWith cursive script
Relates to the elders who hold moments that will cease to repeat again.
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We even lost our words
Highlights the lost words of stories that had disappeared, as well as the people who were the last to hold memories that perishehd in disaster.
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yet as the lights go out at sundown, storytellershave appeared to recite the stories of old comic books or ani-mated films to the accompaniment of guitars or lutes.
Reverted to simpler times, contradicting to the new and complex situations of the government.
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"youth" has lost its bloom.
Being young is no longer seen as promising, it is seen as a weakness. All possible potential is discredited.
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robbed her of the ability to die.
This line reminds me of many cultures idea of purgatory. These elderly people who seemingly "can't die" are trapped in a cycle of defeat, of constant disaster.
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The suitcase I traveled with seems to have disap-peared forever.
Illusion to her previous self, maybe this lost suitcase that has "disappeared forever" translates to her past self, one that has been left behind with the remains of what she used to know.
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I heard a rumor
Large emphasis on this idea of "rumors." There seems to be more hearsay to the author than actual facts; this is an off putting thought due to the little knowledge about her loved ones well being. "Rumor" also alludes to inconsistency.
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Even now, six years later, the full detailsare not known.
Highlights the disconnect between the government and the citizens of Japan. Fear in both aspects of ruling systems as well as what is not known about disasters that hit their own home land.
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comingfrom someone said to be the most hawkish of hawks, leftboth hawks and doves with their beaks hanging open.
"hawkish" to be described in this instance as power hungry, yet still holding strong title of sovereignty. Juxtaposition of hawks vs doves may translate to those who fight for the idea of peace as opposed to those who are fighting for peace itself. (political figures vs general public)
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So stop treating me as if Iwere contaminated," but thought better of it.
Has similar connotations to that of COVID, uneducated people would ostracize and discriminate based on fallacies. Strong sense of xenophobia, especially when the term "contaminated" is being used.
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- Jan 2023
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as radio.cesium travels fromatmosphere into soil, and via plants and mushrooms into thebodies of animals, deer truffle are the main source ofradioactivecontamination of boar.
Since the soil that was contaminated from 1986 is just now protruding into the plants, how long will it take for the soil to no longer be tainted? If this day finally does come, then will the radioactive levels of wild boar dwindle, or is it only a matter of time before another plant is affected by the radioactivity?
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As, a result,the radiation deposited after the 1986 Chernobyl accident, hasonly recently begun to affect the deeper soil layers around deertruffles, the fungi themselves, and the boar who eat them.
I wonder what other species are high in radioactivity levels, as I presume there are more animals than wild boar who eat deer truffles and the vegetation in the area?
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More than twenty-five years after the Chernobylnuclear disaster, radiocesium still does not adhere to human madegeographical borders, as it has spread unevenly across habitatsand geographical region
This quotation specifically connects to what we were discussing in class. More often than not, people associate a catastrophe with the immediate situation. However, people often forget that the effects after the event are the ones that create long lasting destruction. In terms of emotional damage, physical damage, even community damage. This instance of radioactivity staying in Chernobyl 20 years after the event reiterates how longevity does not always translate to fixing.
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Yet for wild boar, a common animal andpopular meat in Germany, the opposite has proved true: in the'I ' .past decade, their radiation levels have experienced an upswing
It is interesting to see the long lasting effect of radio activity upon a group of people, organism, animal, or even society. Especially since the wild boar has become more and more radioactive as time progresses, it creates questions as to what else is still contaminated.
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