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Official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama, 13 March: photo by Reuters/Kim Kyung-Hoon
Horet das Horn des Wächters bei Nacht
Nach Mitternacht ists um die fünfte Stunde
Hear the watchman's horn at night
After midnight about the fifth hour
Man who was evacuated from vicinity of the Fukushima nuclear plant washes his spectacles at Japanese Defense Forces' makeshift facility to cleanse people who might have been exposed to radiation, Nihonmatsu, 14 March: photo by Reuters/Yuriko Nakao
Friedrich Hölderlin (1770-1783): Im Walde / In the Forest, fragment (excerpt), c. 1803-1806, in Hymns and Fragments, translated by Richard Sieburth, 1984
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Its disturbingly strange that we are submitting ultimately to invisibility yet again- the smallest units on the planet, atoms neutrons electrons notwithstanding the amount of effort that went in creating the devils out of them. If only .. a god would now give up his share of invisibility.
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The poem is very mysterious.
"The horror! The horror!"
Submitting ultimately to invisibility yet again... atoms neutrons electrons... "The horror! The horror!"
And all because somebody had a Theory.
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