Syllabus and Opening Epigraphs
Syllabus and opening epigraphs.
Upon looking in the class syllabus there where three short entries that are at the beginning two of the three are the first things that had caught my attention. The first was by Ken Kesney counter cultural figure and author of the 1962 novel “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” This first quote was taken out of his 1964 novel “Sometimes a Great Notion”
“Suburban survivors of Hiroshima described the blast as a
‘Mighty boom, like a locomotive followed by a long, loud train roaring past, fading gradually away to a murmur.’ Wrong.
They describe only the ear’s inaccurate report. For that mighty boom was only the first faintest murmur of an explosion that is still roaring down on us and always will be….
For the reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.”
Reading this I disagree and agree with Kensey at the same time
The first few lines of the quote describe the experience of the survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima as a magnificent sound like a train. Kensey goes on to say that this is wrong and that they describe an ear’s inaccurate report. This is the part of the quote that I de not agree with as Kensey who was only 10 at the time of this event was not there but thousands of miles away in the U.S. Kensey is not one to say what those people heard or saw, but on the other had the rest of the entry is where he in my point of view he redeems himself.
In this part of the quote Ken Kensey tells of the horror that will or could impact future generations. This action will always be on the shoulders of not only the American people who dropped the atom bomb, but also the rest of the world who will live in its quite but deadly shadow for the rest of our time here on earth. The consequences of those actions still haunt us as not only a
Upon looking in the class syllabus there where three short entries that are at the beginning two of the three are the first things that had caught my attention. The first was by Ken Kesney counter cultural figure and author of the 1962 novel “One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest” This first quote was taken out of his 1964 novel “Sometimes a Great Notion”
“Suburban survivors of Hiroshima described the blast as a
‘Mighty boom, like a locomotive followed by a long, loud train roaring past, fading gradually away to a murmur.’ Wrong.
They describe only the ear’s inaccurate report. For that mighty boom was only the first faintest murmur of an explosion that is still roaring down on us and always will be….
For the reverberation often exceeds through silence the sound that sets it off; the reaction occasionally outdoes by way of repose the event that stimulated it; and the past not uncommonly takes a while to happen, and some long time to figure out.”
Reading this I disagree and agree with Kensey at the same time
The first few lines of the quote describe the experience of the survivors of the bombing of Hiroshima as a magnificent sound like a train. Kensey goes on to say that this is wrong and that they describe an ear’s inaccurate report. This is the part of the quote that I de not agree with as Kensey who was only 10 at the time of this event was not there but thousands of miles away in the U.S. Kensey is not one to say what those people heard or saw, but on the other had the rest of the entry is where he in my point of view he redeems himself.
In this part of the quote Ken Kensey tells of the horror that will or could impact future generations. This action will always be on the shoulders of not only the American people who dropped the atom bomb, but also the rest of the world who will live in its quite but deadly shadow for the rest of our time here on earth. The consequences of those actions still haunt us as not only a