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...police, but because of the nationalistic sympathies the plot has aroused, the son is eventually released. Then, with his zealotry intact, lunuma proceeds alone to his assassination target as planned, and commits the suicide he had desired-in the book's last sentence, which is touched by Mi-shima's lucid, kinetic imagery. "The instant that the blade tore open his flesh, the bright disk of the sun soared up and exploded behind his eyelids...
That is, of course, lurid imagery as well-blood and the imperial sun. Mi-shima's sensibility was at once delicate and apocalyptic. Like Spring Snow, the first volume of The Sea of Fertility, Runaway Horses shivers with fragile yet highly wrought detail. Here Mishima also experiments, to lovely effect, with the Buddhist doctrine of reincarnation, lunuma, it seems, may be the reincarnation of Kiyoaki Matsugae, the doomed young lover of Spring Snow...
...Scientists now want to convert sunlight into electricity -a much more difficult task. One technique, proposed by Aden and Marjorie Meinel, a man-and-wife team of scientists at the University of Arizona, involves spreading a "solar farm," consisting of piping containing a mixture of chemicals, over 25 sq. mi. of desert. Heated by the sun, the mix would be used to make steam, which would power turbines capable of producing some 1,000 megawatts of electricity...
...lowest level of all are the 1,000,000 Arabs in the occupied territories. Their fate is at the very core of the Israeli dilemma today. So far, Israel has formally annexed only the 19 sq. mi. (and 70,000 inhabitants) of East Jerusalem; but the Golan Heights, Sharm el Sheikh at the tip of the Sinai Peninsula and the access road along the Gulf of Aqaba have also been annexed in everything but name. The government's strategy is to create an interlocking economy between Israel and the territories, and today 30% of the territories' labor force...
DURING World War II, the Nazis herded more than 400,000 Polish Jews into a 3.5-sq.-mi. area of Warsaw, sealing them off from the rest of the city with a great brick wall. There, in 1943, thousands of Jews perished in a desperate 28-day uprising against the massed might of the German army. Those who survived the fight were shipped off to concentration camps...