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“30. Insects
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects...”
― The Pillow Book
The fly should have been included in my list of hateful things; for such an odious creature does not belong with ordinary insects...”
― The Pillow Book
“One might have complained about the soot and ashes or about the pipes and curtain rods that hung crazily from the ceiling, but patients never lived in a hospital ward so nearly free of bacteria as this one that was sterilized by fire.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“What the diary does not reveal, for it stops too soon, is the appalling fact that from late 1945 until 1952 Japanese medical researchers were prohibited by U.S. occupation authorities from publishing scientific articles on the effects of the atomic bombs.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“My wife, although still with her arm in a sling, was so much better this morning that she took care of me. I was amused to hear her ask for some white ointment which she put over her brows to conceal the fact that her eyebrows had been singed. Her returning vanity was a good sign.”
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
― Hiroshima Diary: The Journal of a Japanese Physician, August 6-September 30, 1945
“Walking along, I occasionally had to stop by the side of the road to spit out the mucus that kept rising in my throat. It rather pleased me to think of the malignant tubercle bacilli that I had brought from Japan being scorched to death under the tropical sun.”
― Fires on the Plain
― Fires on the Plain
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