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

[Mark Kohut]

Forgot to mention that there is the,  unremarked on, of course, transition
from tea to Pynchon's coffee in this novel about the postwar world.

On Sat, Oct 14, 2017 at 6:22 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
> https://images.muralsyourway.com/media/catalog/product/cache/1/base/1200x/
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