It is not that he disregards the gravity of the disaster that befell his family and Hiroshima; rather, he is able to incorporate that disaster into his everyday life, in such a way that memorializes his defining commitment to Hiroshima and expands his gates to new opportunities. Whereas the French woman works as an actress, playing roles in war films that allow her to relive and preserve her experiences, the man works in fields like architecture and politics which seek to rebuild a “New Hiroshima” that transcends the one that was destroyed. Both she and him undergo the movement of resignation, as they know they will never be able to fully restore what was lost. One cannot be both a Knight of Resignation and a Knight of
It is not that he disregards the gravity of the disaster that befell his family and Hiroshima; rather, he is able to incorporate that disaster into his everyday life, in such a way that memorializes his defining commitment to Hiroshima and expands his gates to new opportunities. Whereas the French woman works as an actress, playing roles in war films that allow her to relive and preserve her experiences, the man works in fields like architecture and politics which seek to rebuild a “New Hiroshima” that transcends the one that was destroyed. Both she and him undergo the movement of resignation, as they know they will never be able to fully restore what was lost. One cannot be both a Knight of Resignation and a Knight of