In a cold street full of plane trees
During my mid-winter return trip
With unspoken love you are supposed to reed(Don't you know the song? A Japanese song.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-folk2/mafuyunokaerimichi.html)
Divine Comedy 2007 (XXI)
[Comédie Divin 2007 - XXI]
1. Jesus Wept
(Jésus a pleuré)
Joh 11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.
Joh 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled.
Joh 11:34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.
Joh 11:35 Jesus wept.
Joh 11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!
Joh 11:37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
Joh 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.
Joh 11:39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.
Joh 11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?
Joh 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.
Joh 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.
Joh 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.
Joh 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.
(I suppose Jesus Christ wept because His loving Mary was weeping so hard, as this is the only description of his weeping for whatsoever reason. It must be this Mary Lord Jesus Christ was loving personally in my view.)
2. Pictures of Afghanistan and Pakistan
(Photos de l'Afghanistan et le Pakistan)
1) Pictures of irrigation channels Mr. Tetsu Nakamura, a Japanese supporter of Afghan people, helped construct using donation money from well-meaning Japanese:
http://www1a.biglobe.ne.jp/peshawar/inochi/inochi-r123-a.html
2) Pictures of Japan's aiding disaster victims in Northern Pakistan after the great earthquake of 2005, at the site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan:
http://www.mofa.go.jp/mofaj/area/asia/pdfs/pe_monitor.pdf
In Japan, the biggest concern now in the society is how Japan should be engaged in the international operation in Afghanistan, including especially the continuation of free supply of fuels and water to US and Pakistani naval ships in the Indian Ocean which is so close to Iraq.
Of course, the bombings targeted for Ms. Benzair Bhutto, which happened early this morning in Japan Time, have been reported in Japan. The bombings took more than 100 lives, while Ms. Bhutto was spared; more tragically the great Pakistani earthquake in 2005 took 80,000 lives.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto
3. Divorces in Paris
(Divorces à Paris)
On March 12, 2007, I wrote about a Hungarian French, which turned out to be prophetic later, too:
"Mr. Peter Frankl, a Hungary-born French mathematician and now resident in Japan, gave her up eventually, and lost a motivation forever to return and settle in his home country Hungary, thus seriously thinking about tragedies induced by difference in races and religions."
Then a few months after, Mr. Nicolas Sarkozy, a son of a wealthy Hungarian immigrant father, was elected President of France.
It is reported that he is going to divorce.
His rival in the French presidential election, Ms. Marie-Ségolène Royal, also divorced after the election.
I suppose that until the French Government fully addresses and solves the tragedy of Princess Diana, Paris may continue to be in a state of betrayal of a husband and a wife.
4. Unique Ladies and Common Beauties
(Unique Mesdames et beautés commune)
The wife of JFK was a kind of common American beauties.
The wife of Lindon Johnson was a kind of common American beauties.
The wife of Richard Nixon was a kind of common American beauties.
The wife of Gerald Ford was a kind of common American beauties.
The wife of Mr. Jimmy Carter was a kind of common American beauties.
But the wife of Ronald Reagan was more a unique lady than a kind of common American beauties.
The wife of Mr. George H.W. Bush was more a unique lady than a kind of common American beauties.
The wife of Mr. Bill Clinton was more a unique lady than a kind of common American beauties.
I suppose those presidents from JFK to Mr. Jimmy Carter could not fulfill their missions in their presidency for various tragedies, failures, and problems.
But, the tide changed when Mrs. Ronald Reagan became the First Lady. Her husband and all the subsequent presidents and their families have been fulfilling their missions, whatever, though under difficult conditions but not fatal.
Describing my impression, those ladies seem not to have wept, at least, badly as they are so unique.
(If you, good girls, can be unique and common, it may be great advantage to you and your family in the worldly sense even if you are in New Orleans or Chicago.
Yet, I don't know if I will weep, though Jesus Christ did as He loved that Mary so much, in my interpretation of the Gospel with full respect to my Lord.
By the way at today's midnight, NHK Satellite TV is to broadcast an interesting program on Japan's democracy, though we may be a little sleepy.)
"...The King felt sorry for him, so He forgave him the debt and let him go..."
(Da bekam der Herr Mitleid; er gab ihn frei, und auch die Schuld erliess er ihm.)