Some pictures by survivors are striking by virtue of their singular grotesqueness. An injured man gazes at his own eyeball in the palm of his hand. A skeleton sits in an intact, still upright barbershop chair. A woman's hand rises out of the rubble, the fingers burning like candles. The charred corpse of a child lies on the ground (this a survivor's memory from three days after the Hiroshima bomb) with its arms reaching toward heaven.
The way this paragraph was worded was intentionally written to illustrate the survivors' memories and how vivid they were. These short yet striking descriptions of what was seen highlight how unnatural these experiences were.