NP: another artist embeds The Bomb in cosmic 'symbolic form'

[Mark Kohut]

>From Ishiguro's A Pale View of the Hills.

...."and the effect was a kind of austerity; the flat grass--a wide summer
sky and the
memorial itself--a massive white statue in memory of those killed by the
atomic bomb--
presiding over its domain."

"The statue resembled some muscular Greek good, seated with both arms
outstretched.
With his right hand, he pointed to the sky from where the bomb had fallen;
with the other
arm---stretched out to his left--the figure was supposedly holding back the
forces of evil. His
eyes were closed in prayer."

...."seen from a distance, the figure looked almost comical, resembling a
policeman conducting traffic.
It remained for me nothing more than a statue"
                                                           ----words by
another of Ishiguro's unreliable narrators

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