Cradle the Sky: Episode 2, Episode 3 by MORI Hiroshi

Author:MORI Hiroshi [MORI, Hiroshi]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lulu.com
Published: 2021-01-23T00:00:00+00:00

Episode 3: Humpty Bump

And the box I kept, it’s somewhere in the attic now, I must ask Verena please to give it to me, it would be nice to see my first loves again: what is there? a dried honeycomb, an empty hornet’s nest, other things, or an orange stuck with cloves and a jaybird’s egg – when I loved those love collected inside me so that it went flying about like a bird in a sunflower field.

This excerpt is from The Grass Harp by Truman Capote

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On the night, I shared the blanket with her. Except for the loft, there was no place that we could sleep in this cabin. If I slept in the cockpit of the biplane, it would be too cold. It could not be helped because it was an open cockpit. She told me she would buy another blanket if she got a chance to go to a city, though.

I had a dream. I felt I had a lot of dreams. It might be appropriate for me to state, I have experienced the lives of many people. Most of them ended disappointingly. There was no such thing as emotional upheaval. I thought I experienced the dreams dispassionately. It was maybe because I was totally used to having a delusion.

In one dream, when I was walking in the market, lots of people came and went. I was suddenly shot from behind displayed merchandises. In another dream, when I was trying to moor a boat in the cool shade of a tree at the waterside, I abruptly felt sick and buried my face against mud. It was impressive for me that each way of dying came along with the sense of sinking deep. It was similar to the acceleration I felt when I was falling while revolving slowly.

In the dreams, I encountered many deaths of other people. One time, my mother died. Another time, my sister died. When I was about to kiss the face in the coffin, someone stopped me. You should not do that. Drive this nail in the coffin. The one said, and handed nails and a hammer to me.

The procession in a graveyard. It lasted endlessly. While I was walking on the ground, the rain started falling. But, when I looked up at the sky, it was glittering, and I saw shadows of aircrafts in it.

I left the procession and started to ascend.

The engine was splendid.

The main wings were sucked into the air.

The rudder moved smoothly.

The propeller was like a webbed foot.

The fillet stroked the air gently.

I did not blink.

My eyes caught an enemy aircraft and followed the track.

I will come and get you.

Wait for me.

Everywhere, forever.

I sped diagonally to the airspace above the clouds.

This is the place.

This is the worthiest.

The throttle level at middle-low.

I tilted the wings down slowly and eased up on the angle.

Making a big turn.

The opponent did not escape.

Wonderful.

Now, it’s all here.

I have no request.

No wish, either.

Neither beauty nor righteousness.

No words, no reason, no ideal.

Whatever exists up here.

Air.

Two aircrafts.

Then, eyes gazing at each other.

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