(All around Tokyo)"He should not see death"
On Monday, July 21, 2008, I wrote:
Some Americans might still remember the Ehime-Maru tragedy that occurred in early 2001, (leading to the regime change in Japan to pave the way for Mr. Jyunichiro Koizumi's premiership so drastically).
Specifically in the tragedy, a Japanese fisheries high school had lost its training ship and some lives of students and sailors off the Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, due to an unavoidable collision with a US navy submarine with oil businessmen from Texas on board as civilian visitors to the submarine.
The Ehime-Maru, of course, was from the Ehime Prefecture.
This incident called the story "Moby Dick" to my mind, though, after the 9/11 Terror Attacks.
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It came in as a sort of brief interlude and solo between more extensive performances. I take it that this part of the bill must have run something like this:
"Grand Contested Election for the Presidency of the United States.
"WHALING VOYAGE BY ONE ISHMAEL."
"BLOODY BATTLE IN AFGHANISTAN."
Chapter One
Moby-Dick
Herman Melville
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It is because "Ehime-Maru" sounds like "ISHMAEL", since the both were on a "wailing voyage" as I once wrote in EEE Reporter.
And, yesterday, one of my favorite towns in Ehime recorded the highest temperature in this summer in Japan.
Of course, I heard that Mr. Barack Obama recently visited Afghanistan and said that he would transfer some troops from Iraq to Afghanistan
http://eereporter.blogspot.com/2008/07/10076-degrees-fahrenheit-in-japan.html
Now I wonder if the prophecy by Herman Melville includes a prediction that Mr. Barack Obama would emerge as U.S. President while Moby Dick-like European-race candidates should be defeated in the sea of the people.
Or, otherwise, a fate of "Mortgage-Burdened Wall Street" might have been predicted.
Then, there must be other prophecy on this great recession.
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The novel Moby-Dick really indicates human-diversity in addition to biodiversity.
For the world to maintain its appropriate diversity, it definitely needs the Japanese Civilization, as proven recently in the Nobel Prize awarding ceremony and the Oscar awarding ceremony.
(Du rouge au jaune, vert et bleu. C'est pourquoi, pour l'éternité est blanc et noir pour rien. Mais, l'amour est structual, n'est-ce pas, mon amour?
That is all for you.
http://www.fukuchan.ac/music/j-sengo1/haisoremadeyo.html)
Luk 2:24 And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.
Luk 2:25 And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.
Luk 2:26 And it was revealed unto him by the Holy Ghost, that he should not see death, before he had seen the Lord's Christ.