yes, yes, no, yes, no, no, no

Kaitlyn 2022-04-24 07:01:24

Many years ago, it should have been a rare holiday afternoon when I went to the city on a day when I was not going to school, and I read this book while sitting in the bookstore. At that time, I often read romance novels, how could I understand anything. I just remember the chatter between the two of them in the first half, and the drowsy holiday afternoon. Later, when I woke up in the middle of the night, I was very sleepy and tired, and I could not sleep, I often thought of this exhausted and chaotic state. A strange man and woman from a foreign country who were destined to separate but decided to stay together, met by accident in Hiroshima, which was destroyed by the atomic bomb and rebuilt. Who can tell whether this unrequited love is because of passion, excitement, love or something else what? Who can say whether the Hiroshima incident is a just trial, a tragic destruction, a vicious counterattack, or something else? Destruction is always there, and rebirth is always there, just like human love; "right" is always there, and "wrong" is always there, just like Hiroshima.

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  • Elle: Were you here in Hiroshima?

    Lui: Of course not.

    Elle: That's right. How silly of me.

    Lui: But my family was in Hiroshima.

    Lui: I was off fighting the war.

    Elle: Lucky for you, eh?

    Lui: Yes.

    Elle: Lucky for me, too.

  • Elle: The illusion, quite simply, is so perfect, that tourists weep. It's easy to be cynical. But what else can a tourist possibly do, but weep?